The largest cities in the world, their names and population

Long gone are the days when the vast majority of people on Earth lived freely in nature in small towns and villages. Since the end of the XIX century, our planet has captured the universal urbanisation. The rapid development of civilization and not less rapid increase in population has led to the widespread growth of large urban settlements. The largest modern cities in the world probably seemed to be the time traveler, arriving from the middle Ages, huge, unreal, fantastic worlds. However, for the inhabitants of small provincial towns, in abundance scattered today in mother Russia, a huge metropolis also seem surprising and unusual. And such a giant world centers a lot on our planet.

Largest cities

The population of the largest cities in the world is just incredible! Now we will see what the settlements are the largest number of people living in them. Take the first ten leaders.

• 10-e the place is, oddly enough, new York. It is strange that only 10… the Population of this American metropolis now exceeds 500 21 000 people.
• 9th place was given to Manila, where 21 lives of 800,000 Filipinos.
• 8th place rightfully belongs to the largest Pakistani port city of Karachi - 22 100 100 residents.
• 7th place is the Indian Delhi - 23 500 000 inhabitants.
• 6-e a place has occupied the capital of Mexico is Mexico city - 23 500 000 inhabitants.
• 5th place belongs to Korean Seoul – 25 600 000 inhabitants.
• 4th place is Shanghai – 25 800 000 inhabitants.

And finally, we made it to the top three!

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3 most populous cities on the planet

Here are the world's largest cities by population (positive): 3rd place - Jakarta (25 800 000 inhabitants), 2nd place - Canton (26 300 000 inhabitants) and 1st place- Tokyo (34 600 000 inhabitants). On each of these three megacities in the world worth telling in detail.

Jakarta

The capital of Indonesia, located on Java island. Jakarta is the most populous city of the whole of South-East Asia. This place is closely intertwined in different cultures from around the Indonesian archipelago. An interesting fact is that during the day the number of inhabitants of the capital increases by several million, due to the arrival to work of the residents of the suburbs. The most numerous ethnic groups living in Jakarta are Javanese, Sunda, Chinese, madenci, Arabs and Indians.

Despite the fact that Jakarta is one of the largest and most populous cities of the Earth, in order to see all sights, tourists will be enough of one, maximum a couple of days. First of all, guests of the capital are recommended to visit the so-called old town that has preserved ancient architecture and identity. For travelers in South-East Asia Jakarta rather a transit point on the way to the beauty of Indonesia.

Canton

The List, which includes the largest cities in the world, of course, could not do without one of the Metropolitan cities of China. After all, China – is the most populous and densely populated country in the world. The Canton, or as it is called differently, Guangzhou, is one of the most famous historical and cultural Chinese settlements. However, it is a major industrial and trading center, Korea and trading port of the country.

Canton (or Guangzhou) is called the city of flowers: thanks to the subtropical climate of this place round the year is literally immersed in lush greenery. The history of Guangzhou goes back more than two thousand years. Once it was here was also the beginning of the famous silk road.

Tokyo

Well, our story about the biggest cities of the world is coming to an end and ends with a small description of the absolute champion in terms of population – the Japanese capital Tokyo. It is the only metropolis on the planet, in which the number of residents exceeded 30 million. However, Tokyo cannot be considered a city in the usual sense of the word. It is the Prefecture, consisting of 26 separate cities, 7 towns and 8 villages. What is surprising is that the Tokyo area is not great - just 2156,8 sq km, which makes this place the Earth's most populous.

In a major city in the world, an amazing combination between modernity, is loaded with electronic innovations, multilevel automobile racks, and fantastic skyscrapers and old with ancient Buddhist temples, beautiful rotundas and traditional gardens and parks. At any time of the year here is full of tourists. So the number of permanent local residents can still be added, and the noisy crowd discordant travelers daily arriving in Tokyo from all parts of the globe.

According to scientists, the population of the largest cities in the world will continue to grow in the future, as, indeed, the entire population of our planet. Forbes magazine recently published the results of studies which say that by 2025 Tokyo will retain its leading position as the largest city by population.