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People > Major cities > Population: Countries Compared

COUNTRY DESCRIPTION
Afghanistan KABUL (capital) 3.097 million
Albania TIRANA (capital) 419,000
Algeria ALGIERS (capital) 2.916 million; Oran 770,000
American Samoa PAGO PAGO (capital) 64,000
Andorra ANDORRA LA VELLA (capital) 23,000
Angola LUANDA (capital) 5.068 million; Huambo 979,000
Anguilla THE VALLEY (capital) 2,000
Antigua and Barbuda SAINT JOHN'S (capital) 27,000
Argentina BUENOS AIRES (capital) 13.528 million; Cordoba 1.493 million; Rosario 1.231 million; Mendoza 917,000; San Miguel de Tucuman 831,000
Armenia YEREVAN (capital) 1.116 million
Aruba ORANJESTAD (capital) 37,000
Australia Sydney 4.429 million; Melbourne 3.853 million; Brisbane 1.97 million; Perth 1.599 million; CANBERRA (capital) 399,000
Austria VIENNA (capital) 1.72 million
Azerbaijan BAKU (capital) 2.123 million
Bahrain MANAMA (capital) 262,000
Bangladesh DHAKA (capital) 15.391 million; Chittagong 4.816 million; Khulna 1.636 million; Rajshahi 853,000
Barbados BRIDGETOWN (capital) 122,000
Belarus MINSK (capital) 1.861 million
Belgium BRUSSELS (capital) 1.892 million; Antwerp 961,000
Belize BELMOPAN (capital) 14,000
Benin COTONOU (seat of government) 924,000; PORTO-NOVO (capital) 314,000
Bermuda HAMILTON (capital) 11,000
Bhutan THIMPHU (capital) 99,000
Bolivia LA PAZ (capital) 1.715 million; Santa Cruz 1.584 million; Sucre 307,000
Bosnia and Herzegovina SARAJEVO (capital) 389,000
Botswana GABORONE (capital) 202,000
Brazil Sao Paulo 19.96 million; Rio de Janeiro 11.836 million; Belo Horizonte 5.736 million; Porto Alegre 4.034 million; BRASILIA (capital) 3.813 million
British Virgin Islands ROAD TOWN (capital) 10,000
Brunei BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (capital) 241,000
Bulgaria SOFIA (capital) 1.174 million
Burkina Faso OUAGADOUGOU (capital) 2.053 million
Burma RANGOON (capital) 4.259 million; Mandalay 1.009 million; Nay Pyi Taw 992,000
Burundi BUJUMBURA (capital) 605,000
Cambodia PHNOM PENH (capital) 1.55 million
Cameroon YAOUNDE (capital) 2.432 million; Douala 2.053 million
Canada Toronto 5.377 million; Montreal 3.75 million; Vancouver 2.197 million; OTTAWA (capital) 1.208 million; Calgary 1.16 million
Cape Verde PRAIA (capital) 132,000
Cayman Islands GEORGE TOWN (capital) 28,000
Central African Republic BANGUI (capital) 740,000
Chad N'DJAMENA (capital) 1.079 million
Chile SANTIAGO (capital) 6.034 million; Valparaiso 865,000
China Shanghai 16.575 million; BEIJING (capital) 15.594 million; Chongqing 9.401 million; Shenzhen 9.005 million; Guangzhou 8.884 million
Colombia BOGOTA (capital) 8.744 million; Medellin 3.497 million; Cali 2.352 million; Barranquilla 1.836 million; Bucaramanga 1.065 million
Comoros MORONI (capital) 54,000
Congo, Republic of the BRAZZAVILLE (capital) 1.611 million
Costa Rica SAN JOSE (capital) 1.515 million
Cote d'Ivoire ABIDJAN (seat of government) 4.288 million; YAMOUSSOUKRO (capital) 966,000
Croatia ZAGREB (capital) 686,000
Cuba HAVANA (capital) 2.116 million
Cyprus NICOSIA (capital) 253,000
Czech Republic PRAGUE (capital) 1.276 million
Democratic Republic of the Congo KINSHASA (capital) 8.798 million; Lubumbashi 1.543 million; Mbuji-Mayi 1.488 million; Kananga 878,000; Kisangani 812,000
Denmark COPENHAGEN (capital) 1.206 million
Djibouti DJIBOUTI (capital) 496,000
Dominica ROSEAU (capital) 14,000
Dominican Republic SANTO DOMINGO (capital) 2.191 million
East Timor DILI (capital) 166,000
Ecuador Guayaquil 2.634 million; QUITO (capital) 1.622 million
Egypt CAIRO (capital) 11.169 million; Alexandria 4.387 million
El Salvador SAN SALVADOR (capital) 1.605 million
Equatorial Guinea MALABO (capital) 137,000
Eritrea ASMARA (capital) 649,000
Estonia TALLINN (capital) 399,000
Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA (capital) 2.863 million
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) STANLEY (capital) 2,000
Federated States of Micronesia PALIKIR (capital) 7,000
Fiji SUVA (capital) 174,000
Finland HELSINKI (capital) 1.107 million
France PARIS (capital) 10.41 million; Marseille-Aix-en-Provence 1.457 million; Lyon 1.456 million; Lille 1.028 million; Nice-Cannes 977,000
French Polynesia PAPEETE (capital) 133,000
Gabon LIBREVILLE (capital) 619,000
Georgia TBILISI (capital) 1.115 million
Germany BERLIN (capital) 3.438 million; Hamburg 1.786 million; Munich 1.349 million; Cologne 1.001 million
Ghana ACCRA (capital) 2.269 million; Kumasi 1.773 million
Greece ATHENS (capital) 3.252 million; Thessaloniki 834,000
Greenland NUUK (capital) 15,000
Grenada SAINT GEORGE'S (capital) 40,000
Guam HAGATNA (capital) 153,000
Guatemala GUATEMALA CITY (capital) 1.075 million
Guinea CONAKRY (capital) 1.597 million
Guinea-Bissau BISSAU (capital) 302,000
Guyana GEORGETOWN (capital) 132,000
Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE (capital) 2.143 million
Honduras TEGUCIGALPA (capital) 1 million
Hungary BUDAPEST (capital) 1.705 million
Iceland REYKJAVIK (capital) 198,000
India DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million; Kolkata 15.294 million; Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million
Indonesia JAKARTA (capital) 9.121 million; Surabaya 2.509 million; Bandung 2.412 million; Medan 2.131 million; Semarang 1.296 million
Iran TEHRAN (capital) 7.19 million; Mashhad 2.592 million; Esfahan 1.704 million; Karaj 1.531 million; Tabriz 1.459 million
Iraq BAGHDAD (capital) 5.751 million; Mosul 1.447 million; Erbil 1.009 million; Basra 923,000; As Sulaymaniyah 836,000
Ireland DUBLIN (capital) 1.084 million
Isle of Man DOUGLAS (capital) 26,000
Israel Tel Aviv-Yafo 3.219 million; Haifa 1.027 million; JERUSALEM (capital) 768,000
Italy ROME (capital) 3.357 million; Milan 2.962 million; Naples 2.27 million; Turin 1.662 million; Palermo 872,000
Jamaica KINGSTON (capital) 580,000
Japan TOKYO (capital) 36.507 million; Osaka-Kobe 11.325 million; Nagoya 3.257 million; Fukuoka-Kitakyushu 2.809 million; Sapporo 2.673 million
Jordan AMMAN (capital) 1.088 million
Kazakhstan Almaty 1.383 million; ASTANA (capital) 650,000
Kenya NAIROBI (capital) 3.375 million; Mombassa 966,000
Kiribati TARAWA (capital) 43,000
Kuwait KUWAIT (capital) 2.23 million
Kyrgyzstan BISHKEK (capital) 854,000
Laos VIENTIANE (capital) 799,000
Latvia RIGA (capital) 711,000
Lebanon BEIRUT (capital) 1.909 million
Lesotho MASERU (capital) 220,000
Liberia MONROVIA (capital) 882,000
Libya TRIPOLI (capital) 1.095 million
Liechtenstein VADUZ (capital) 5,000
Lithuania VILNIUS (capital) 546,000
Luxembourg LUXEMBOURG (capital) 90,000
Madagascar ANTANANARIVO (capital) 1.816 million
Malawi Blantyre 856,000; LILONGWE (capital) 821,000
Malaysia KUALA LUMPUR (capital) 1.493 million; Klang 1.071 million; Johor Bahru 958,000
Maldives MALE (capital) 120,000
Mali BAMAKO 1.628 million
Malta VALLETTA (capital) 199,000
Marshall Islands MAJURO (capital) 30,000
Mauritania NOUAKCHOTT (capital) 709,000
Mauritius PORT LOUIS (capital) 149,000
Mayotte MAMOUDZOU (capital) 6,000
Mexico MEXICO CITY (capital) 19.319 million; Guadalajara 4.338 million; Monterrey 3.838 million; Puebla 2.278 million; Tijuana 1.629 million
Moldova CHISINAU (capital) 650,000
Mongolia ULAANBAATAR (capital) 949,000
Montenegro PODGORICA (capital) 144,000
Morocco Casablanca 3.245 million; RABAT (capital) 1.77 million; Fes 1.044 million; Marrakech 909,000; Tangier 768,000
Mozambique MAPUTO (capital) 1.589 million; Matola 761,000
Namibia WINDHOEK (capital) 342,000
Nepal KATHMANDU (capital) 990,000
Netherlands AMSTERDAM (capital) 1.044 million; Rotterdam 1.008 million; The Hague (seat of government) 629,000
New Caledonia NOUMEA (capital) 144,000
New Zealand Auckland 1.36 million; WELLINGTON (capital) 391,000
Nicaragua MANAGUA (capital) 934,000
Niger NIAMEY (capital) 1.004 million
Nigeria Lagos 10.203 million; Kano 3.304 million; Ibadan 2.762 million; ABUJA (capital) 1.857 million; Kaduna 1.519 million
North Korea PYONGYANG (capital) 2.843 million
Northern Mariana Islands SAIPAN (capital) NA
Norway OSLO (capital) 875,000
Oman MUSCAT (capital) 634,000
Pakistan Karachi 13.125 million; Lahore 7.132 million; Faisalabad 2.849 million; Rawalpindi 2.026 million; ISLAMABAD (capital) 832,000
Panama PANAMA CITY (capital) 1.346 million
Papua New Guinea PORT MORESBY (capital) 314,000
Paraguay ASUNCION (capital) 1.977 million
Peru LIMA (capital) 8.769 million; Arequipa 778,000
Philippines MANILA (capital) 11.449 million; Davao 1.48 million; Cebu City 845,000; Zamboanga 827,000
Poland WARSAW (capital) 1.71 million; Krakow 756,000
Portugal LISBON (capital) 2.808 million; Porto 1.344 million
Puerto Rico SAN JUAN (capital) 2.73 million
Qatar DOHA (capital) 427,000
Republic of Macedonia SKOPJE (capital) 480,000
Romania BUCHAREST (capital) 1.933 million
Russia MOSCOW (capital) 10.523 million; Saint Petersburg 4.575 million; Novosibirsk 1.397 million; Yekaterinburg 1.344 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.267 million
Rwanda KIGALI 909,000
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha JAMESTOWN (capital) 1,000
Saint Kitts and Nevis BASSETERRE (capital) 13,000
Saint Lucia CASTRIES (capital) 15,000
Saint Pierre and Miquelon SAINT-PIERRE (capital) 5,000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines KINGSTOWN (capital) 28,000
Samoa APIA (capital) 36,000
Sao Tome and Principe SAO TOME (capital) 60,000
Saudi Arabia RIYADH (capital) 4.725 million; Jeddah 3.234 million; Mecca 1.484 million; Medina 1.104 million; Ad Dammam 902,000
Senegal DAKAR (capital) 2.777 million
Serbia BELGRADE (capital) 1.115 million
Serbia and Montenegro BELGRADE (capital) 1.115 million
Seychelles VICTORIA (capital) 26,000
Sierra Leone FREETOWN (capital) 875,000
Slovakia BRATISLAVA (capital) 428,000
Slovenia LJUBLJANA (capital) 260,000
Solomon Islands HONIARA (capital) 72,000
Somalia MOGADISHU (capital) 1.353 million
South Africa Johannesburg 3.607 million; Cape Town 3.353 million; Ekurhuleni (East Rand) 3.144 million; Durban 2.837 million; PRETORIA (capital) 1.404 million
South Korea SEOUL (capital) 9.778 million; Busan (Pusan) 3.439 million; Incheon (Inch'on) 2.572 million; Daegu (Taegu) 2.458 million; Daejon (Taejon) 1.497 million
South Sudan JUBA (capital) 250,000
Spain MADRID (capital) 5.762 million; Barcelona 5.029 million; Valencia 812,000
Sri Lanka COLOMBO (capital) 681,000
Sudan KHARTOUM (capital) 5.021 million
Suriname PARAMARIBO (capital) 259,000
Swaziland MBABANE (capital) 74,000
Sweden STOCKHOLM (capital) 1.279 million
Switzerland Zurich 1.143 million; BERN (capital) 346,000
Syria Aleppo 2.985 million; DAMASCUS (capital) 2.527 million; Hims 1.276 million; Hamah 854,000
Tajikistan DUSHANBE (capital) 704,000
Tanzania DAR ES SALAAM (capital) 3.207 million
Thailand BANGKOK (capital) 6.902 million
The Bahamas NASSAU (capital) 248,000
The Gambia BANJUL (capital) 436,000
Togo LOME (capital) 1.593 million
Trinidad and Tobago PORT-OF-SPAIN (capital) 57,000
Tunisia TUNIS (capital) 759,000
Turkey Istanbul 10.378 million; ANKARA (capital) 3.846 million; Izmir 2.679 million; Bursa 1.559 million; Adana 1.339 million
Turkmenistan ASHGABAT (capital) 637,000
Turks and Caicos Islands GRAND TURK (capital) 6,000
Uganda KAMPALA (capital) 1.535 million
Ukraine KYIV (capital) 2.779 million; Kharkiv 1.455 million; Dnipropetrovsk 1.013 million; Odesa 1.009 million; Donetsk 971,000
United Arab Emirates ABU DHABI (capital) 666,000
United Kingdom LONDON (capital) 8.615 million; Birmingham 2.296 million; Manchester 2.247 million; West Yorkshire 1.541 million; Glasgow 1.166 million
United States New York-Newark 19.3 million; Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana 12.675 million; Chicago 9.134 million; Miami 5.699 million; WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) 4.421 million
Uruguay MONTEVIDEO (capital) 1.633 million
Uzbekistan TASHKENT (capital) 2.201 million
Venezuela CARACAS (capital) 3.051 million; Maracaibo 2.153 million; Valencia 1.738 million; Barquisimeto 1.159 million; Maracay 1.04 million
Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City 5.976 million; HANOI (capital) 2.668 million; Haiphong 1.941 million; Da Nang 807,000
Virgin Islands CHARLOTTE AMALIE (capital) 54,000
Western Sahara Laayoune 237,000
Yemen SANAA (capital) 2.229 million
Zambia LUSAKA (capital) 1.413 million
Zimbabwe HARARE (capital) 1.606 million

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