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Population in the Largest City

Based on a comparison of 153 countries in 2021, Japan ranked the highest in population in largest city with 37.3 mil followed by India and China. On the other end of the scale was Bosnia and Herzegovina with 0.344 mil, Papua New Guinea with 0.391 mil and South Sudan with 0.421 mil.

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Country	Unit
Afghanistan	mil
Albania	mil
Algeria	mil
Angola	mil
Argentina	mil
Armenia	mil
Australia	mil
Austria	mil
Azerbaijan	mil
Bahrain	mil
Bangladesh	mil
Belarus	mil
Belgium	mil
Benin	mil
Bolivia	mil
Bosnia and Herzegovina	mil
Brazil	mil
Bulgaria	mil
Burkina Faso	mil
Burundi	mil
Cambodia	mil
Cameroon	mil
Canada	mil
Central African Republic	mil
Chad	mil
Chile	mil
China	mil
Colombia	mil
Congo	mil
Costa Rica	mil
Croatia	mil
Cuba	mil
Czechia	mil
Dem. People's Republic of Korea	mil
Dem. Republic of the Congo	mil
Denmark	mil
Djibouti	mil
Dominican Republic	mil
Ecuador	mil
Egypt	mil
El Salvador	mil
Equatorial Guinea	mil
Eritrea	mil
Estonia	mil
Ethiopia	mil
Finland	mil
France	mil
Gabon	mil
Gambia	mil
Georgia	mil
Germany	mil
Ghana	mil
Greece	mil
Guatemala	mil
Guinea	mil
Guinea Bissau	mil
Haiti	mil
Honduras	mil
Hong Kong	mil
Hungary	mil
India	mil
Indonesia	mil
Iraq	mil
Iran	mil
Ireland	mil
Israel	mil
Italy	mil
Ivory Coast	mil
Jamaica	mil
Japan	mil
Jordan	mil
Kazakhstan	mil
Kenya	mil
Kuwait	mil
Kyrgyzstan	mil
Laos	mil
Latvia	mil
Lebanon	mil
Liberia	mil
Libya	mil
Lithuania	mil
Macao	mil
Macedonia	mil
Madagascar	mil
Malawi	mil
Malaysia	mil
Mali	mil
Mauritania	mil
Mexico	mil
Moldova	mil
Mongolia	mil
Morocco	mil
Mozambique	mil
Myanmar	mil
Namibia	mil
Nepal	mil
Netherlands	mil
New Zealand	mil
Nicaragua	mil
Niger	mil
Nigeria	mil
Norway	mil
Oman	mil
Pakistan	mil
Palestine	mil
Panama	mil
Papua New Guinea	mil
Paraguay	mil
Peru	mil
Philippines	mil
Poland	mil
Portugal	mil
Puerto Rico	mil
Qatar	mil
Romania	mil
Russia	mil
Rwanda	mil
Saudi Arabia	mil
Senegal	mil
Serbia	mil
Sierra Leone	mil
Singapore	mil
Slovakia	mil
Somalia	mil
South Africa	mil
South Korea	mil
South Sudan	mil
Spain	mil
Sri Lanka	mil
Sudan	mil
Sweden	mil
Switzerland	mil
Syria	mil
Tajikistan	mil
Tanzania	mil
Thailand	mil
Togo	mil
Trinidad and Tobago	mil
Tunisia	mil
Turkey	mil
Turkmenistan	mil
Uganda	mil
Ukraine	mil
United Arab Emirates	mil
United Kingdom	mil
USA	mil
Uruguay	mil
Uzbekistan	mil
Venezuela	mil
Vietnam	mil
Yemen	mil
Zambia	mil
Zimbabwe	mil

2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
													3.72	3.82	3.91	4.01	4.11
													0.449	0.458	0.467	0.476	0.485
													2.59	2.63	2.66	2.69	2.73
													7.02	7.27	7.52	7.77	8.04
													14.7	14.8	14.9	15.0	15.1
													1.07	1.07	1.08	1.08	1.08
													4.54	4.63	4.71	4.79	4.87
													1.83	1.86	1.88	1.90	1.92
													2.21	2.23	2.26	2.29	2.31
													0.441	0.479	0.520	0.565	0.600
													17.6	18.2	18.9	19.6	20.3
													1.95	1.96	1.98	2.00	2.02
													2.00	2.02	2.03	2.05	2.07
													0.758	0.811	0.867	0.928	0.991
													1.75	1.77	1.79	1.81	1.84
													0.342	0.342	0.343	0.343	0.343
													20.9	21.1	21.4	21.7	21.8
													1.26	1.26	1.27	1.27	1.28
													2.20	2.31	2.42	2.53	2.65
													0.751	0.797	0.847	0.899	0.954
													1.78	1.83	1.89	1.95	2.01
													3.10	3.27	3.46	3.66	3.82
													5.87	5.94	6.01	6.08	6.14
													0.798	0.815	0.833	0.851	0.870
													1.19	1.23	1.28	1.32	1.37
													6.52	6.58	6.63	6.68	6.72
													23.5	24.2	24.9	25.6	26.3
													9.71	9.99	10.3	10.6	10.8
													1.96	2.04	2.14	2.23	2.31
													1.30	1.32	1.34	1.36	1.38
													0.687	0.686	0.686	0.686	0.685
													2.12	2.13	2.13	2.14	2.14
													1.27	1.28	1.28	1.29	1.30
													2.97	2.99	3.02	3.04	3.06
													11.6	12.1	12.6	13.2	13.7
													1.27	1.29	1.30	1.32	1.33
													0.531	0.541	0.551	0.562	0.569
													2.94	3.02	3.09	3.17	3.25
													2.74	2.79	2.84	2.90	2.95
													18.8	19.2	19.6	20.1	20.5
													1.10	1.10	1.10	1.11	1.11
													0.313	0.332	0.353	0.376	0.395
													0.803	0.833	0.864	0.896	0.929
													0.416	0.423	0.430	0.437	0.441
													3.87	4.04	4.22	4.40	4.59
													1.22	1.24	1.26	1.28	1.29
													10.7	10.8	10.8	10.9	11.0
													0.747	0.769	0.791	0.813	0.824
													0.420	0.426	0.431	0.437	0.443
													1.08	1.08	1.08	1.08	1.08
													3.51	3.53	3.54	3.55	3.56
													2.62	2.76	2.91	3.06	3.21
													3.16	3.16	3.16	3.16	3.15
													2.74	2.78	2.81	2.85	2.89
													1.71	1.76	1.80	1.84	1.89
													0.497	0.516	0.537	0.558	0.579
													2.44	2.50	2.57	2.64	2.70
													1.23	1.27	1.32	1.36	1.40
													7.25	7.30	7.36	7.43	7.49
													1.75	1.75	1.75	1.76	1.76
													25.9	26.7	27.6	28.5	29.4
													10.2	10.3	10.4	10.5	10.6
													6.35	6.50	6.65	6.81	6.97
													8.56	8.67	8.78	8.90	9.01
													1.16	1.18	1.19	1.20	1.21
													3.70	3.80	3.91	4.01	4.10
													4.11	4.15	4.18	4.21	4.23
													4.53	4.66	4.79	4.92	5.06
													0.587	0.588	0.588	0.589	0.590
													37.3	37.3	37.4	37.5	37.4
													1.78	1.87	1.97	2.06	2.11
													1.67	1.72	1.77	1.83	1.86
													3.91	4.07	4.22	4.39	4.56
													2.57	2.70	2.84	2.99	3.05
													0.936	0.956	0.976	0.996	1.02
													0.642	0.650	0.657	0.665	0.673
													0.646	0.643	0.640	0.637	0.634
													2.23	2.28	2.33	2.39	2.41
													1.27	1.32	1.37	1.42	1.47
													1.13	1.14	1.15	1.16	1.16
													0.531	0.533	0.534	0.536	0.538
													0.601	0.612	0.623	0.632	0.642
													0.560	0.568	0.576	0.584	0.590
													2.62	2.76	2.90	3.06	3.21
													0.905	0.945	0.986	1.03	1.07
													6.85	7.08	7.32	7.56	7.78
													2.22	2.29	2.37	2.45	2.53
													1.06	1.10	1.15	1.21	1.26
													21.3	21.4	21.5	21.6	21.7
													0.526	0.521	0.515	0.510	0.504
													1.36	1.41	1.47	1.52	1.55
													3.59	3.62	3.65	3.68	3.72
													1.35	1.47	1.60	1.64	1.67
													4.85	4.95	5.05	5.16	5.24
													0.368	0.380	0.392	0.404	0.417
													1.18	1.23	1.28	1.33	1.38
													1.11	1.11	1.12	1.13	1.14
													1.47	1.50	1.53	1.56	1.58
													1.03	1.03	1.04	1.05	1.06
													1.11	1.14	1.18	1.21	1.25
													12.2	12.6	13.0	13.5	13.9
													0.969	0.983	0.997	1.01	1.03
													1.18	1.31	1.38	1.45	1.50
													14.3	14.7	15.0	15.4	15.7
													0.618	0.636	0.655	0.674	0.693
													1.67	1.71	1.75	1.78	1.82
													0.345	0.352	0.359	0.367	0.375
													2.97	3.05	3.13	3.22	3.28
													9.81	10.0	10.2	10.4	10.6
													12.9	13.1	13.3	13.5	13.7
													1.74	1.75	1.76	1.77	1.78
													2.88	2.90	2.91	2.93	2.94
													2.46	2.46	2.46	2.45	2.45
													0.595	0.626	0.659	0.693	0.716
													1.85	1.84	1.83	1.82	1.81
													12.0	12.2	12.3	12.4	12.5
													0.951	0.986	1.02	1.06	1.09
													6.22	6.44	6.67	6.91	7.07
													2.76	2.83	2.90	2.98	3.06
													1.37	1.38	1.38	1.39	1.39
													1.04	1.07	1.10	1.14	1.17
													5.54	5.62	5.71	5.79	5.87
													0.422	0.425	0.427	0.430	0.433
													1.78	1.88	1.98	2.08	2.18
													4.98	5.15	5.31	5.49	5.64
													9.90	9.92	9.94	9.96	9.96
													0.321	0.336	0.352	0.369	0.386
													6.22	6.31	6.40	6.50	6.56
													0.581	0.587	0.594	0.600	0.606
													5.13	5.26	5.40	5.53	5.68
													1.50	1.52	1.55	1.58	1.61
													1.33	1.34	1.36	1.37	1.38
													2.22	2.25	2.29	2.32	2.35
													0.812	0.832	0.852	0.873	0.894
													5.12	5.41	5.72	6.05	6.37
													9.40	9.65	9.90	10.2	10.4
													1.64	1.67	1.71	1.75	1.79
													0.545	0.545	0.545	0.544	0.544
													2.18	2.22	2.25	2.29	2.33
													14.1	14.3	14.5	14.8	15.0
													0.753	0.772	0.791	0.810	0.828
													2.58	2.71	2.84	2.99	3.14
													2.89	2.92	2.94	2.96	2.97
													2.40	2.52	2.65	2.79	2.83
													8.66	8.79	8.92	9.05	9.18
													18.6	18.7	18.8	18.8	18.8
													1.71	1.72	1.73	1.74	1.74
													2.38	2.41	2.44	2.46	2.49
													2.92	2.92	2.93	2.93	2.94
													7.35	7.60	7.87	8.15	8.37
													2.49	2.59	2.68	2.78	2.87
													2.19	2.29	2.41	2.52	2.65
													1.50	1.50	1.51	1.52	1.52

Last Updated: Feb 1, 2023

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