List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants

This list contains all the megacities of the world. Both cities were taken into account in their administrative boundaries and cities and urban settlements in the geographical sense. What was not taken into account, is shown in brackets. In the case of Tokyo's 23 wards of Tokyo only were considered.

Cities and urban settlements may consist of several politically independent communities that have grown together geographically to a city. In some cases, they are also administratively part of a city or town that includes large rural areas or consists of several towns that are far away from each other. The population figures so do not always refer to the city or town in their political boundaries.

If one were to consider only the administrative boundaries of a city, Chongqing would be the greatest city in the world with 32 million inhabitants. The core city is, however, with 4.3 million significantly smaller ( Sept. 2012 ); the administrative area of the city is larger than the state of Bavaria and consists mainly of mountains, forest and agricultural land with rural settlement structure.

A globally consistent definition of what constitutes a city, there is not. Lack of comparability in the spatial delineation well as errors and inaccuracies in the extrapolation and extrapolation of population figures may include changes in the specifications for one and the same city.

The four million cities in Germany (Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne ) are shown in this table in bold. Vienna is also emphasized, the Austrian capital and Hamburg each have about 13/4 million inhabitants. (For the millions of cities in German-speaking countries belongs, strictly speaking, the Belgian capital Brussels as Cologne has less than 1.1 million inhabitants Switzerland and Luxembourg have no metropolis. . )

As of September 27, 2010