List of metropolitan areas in Asia

This is a list of metropolitan areas and urban areas in Asia with the largest population according to several sources. The Asian continent is one of the fastest-growing continents in the World, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Tokyo in Japan is the world's largest metropolitan area by population. Many other cities, such as Karachi, Kolkata, Chennai, Dhaka, Delhi, Mumbai, Tehran, Seoul, Shanghai, Manila, Osaka, Beijing, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shenzen, Guangzhou, Bangkok and Jakarta are important metropolises.

The population of the given cities are obtained from five different sources:

• City Population
• Demographia (urban areas)
• United Nations World’s Cities in 2016 Booklet, whose data source is: “United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2014), World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision.”
• World Atlas
• National Official Estimate (NOE)

Out of these five sources, the highest estimate is shown in bold. The cities are ranked on the basis of their highest estimate of population.

The official statistics for Chinese cities are for municipalities which usually extend well beyond the urban areas and comprise a substantial rural population. When such statistics exceed the estimated figures, as in the case if Chongqing, Wuhan and Shenyang, they are not taken into account.

The figure for Shanghai from City Population includes the city of Suzhou (some 62 miles northwest of Shanghai), which is not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore is not taken into account.

The figure for Guangzhou from City Population is for the urban population of the Guangdong province, also which includes the cities Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Huizhou. The area has not yet been developed into a single metropolitan area and therefore this figure is not taken into account. Shenzhen and Dongguan are listed separately in this table.

Demographia and world Atlas give figures for the contiguous cities of Quanzhou, Jinjiang and Shishi. City Population includes these three cities in its figures for Xiamen (population 4-4.8 million), giving a total population of 10,000,000. However, Xiamen is not actually contiguous with the three other cities and this statistic is not taken into account.

The table is color-coded to show which region of Asia each city is in. The color-code key is as follows:

With twenty cities, East Asia accounts for half of cities under this list, with China having the lion's share with fifteen cities, South Asia comes second with ten cities, seven of which are in India. Southeast Asia accounts for seven cities and West Asia with just three cities.

List

Rank	Area	Image	Country	City Population (2017 est.)[1]	Demographia (2017 est.)[2]	UN WC (2016 est.)[3]	World Atlas (2017 est.)[4]	Official or Other	Est. Year
1	Tokyo		Japan	39,800,000	37,900,000	38,140,000[5]	37,843,000	31,714,000[6]	2005
2	Jakarta		Indonesia	28,900,000	31,760,000	10,483,000[7]	30,539,000	15,519,545 [8]	2010 Census Final
3	Delhi		India	27,200,000	26,495,000	26,,454,000[9]	24,998,000	11,034,555 [7][10]	2011
4	Karachi		Pakistan	25,100,000	23,545,000	17,121,000[7]	22,123,000	-	-
5	Seoul		South Korea	24,800,000	24,105,000	Seoul 9,979,000[7] Incheon 2,711,000[7]	23,480,000	24,272,000 [11]	2007
6	Shanghai		China	31,100,000[12]	23,390,000	24,484,000[7]	23,416,000	23,019,148[13]	2010
7	Manila		Philippines	24,100,000	24,245,000	13,131,000[9]	24,123,000	11,553,427[14]	2007
8	Mumbai		India	23,600,000	22,885,000	21,357,000[9]	17,712,000	17,800,000[15]	2001
9	Beijing		China	20,700,000	20,145,000	21,240,000[9]	21,009,000	19,612,368[16]	2010
10	Guangzhou-Foshan		China	48,600,000[17]	19,075,000	Guanzhou 13,070,000[9] Foshan 7,089,000[9]	20,597,000	12,700,800[18]	-
11	Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto		Japan	17,800,000	17,075,000	20,337,000[5]	17,440,000	16,663,000[6]	2005
12	Dhaka		Bangladesh	17,1900,000	16,820,000	18,237,000[5]	15,669,000	12,797,394[19]	2008
13	Bangkok		Thailand	17,400,000	15,645,000	9,440,000[5]	14,998,000	8,249,117 [20]	2010
14	Kolkata		India	16,200,000	14,950,000	14,980,000[9]	14,667,000	-	-
15	Tehran		Iran	14,000,000	13,805,000	8,516,000[7]	13,532,000	13,422,366[21]	2006
16	Chongqing		China	7,200,000	7,990,000	13,744,000[9]	7,217,000	28,846,170[22][23]	2010
17	Tianjin		China	11,800,000	13,245,000	11,558,000[9]	10,920,000	12,938,224[24]	-
18	Shenzhen		China	included in Guangzhou	12,775,000	10,828,000	12,084,000[9]	10,357,938[25]	-
19	Chengdu		China	9,750,000	11,050,000	7,820,000[9]	10,376,000	-	-
20	Bengaluru		India	10,800,000	10,535,000	10,546,000[9]	8,728,906	8,499,399	2011[26]
21	Lahore		Pakistan	10,500,000	10,666,000	8,990,000[9]	10,052,000	-	-
22	Nagoya		Japan	10,500,000	10,070,000	9,434,000[5]	10,177,000	9,046,000[6]	2005
23	Ho Chi Minh City		Vietnam	8,310,000	10,380,000	7,498,000[9]	8,957,000	7,955,000	2014
24	Chennai		India	10,300,000	10,265,000	10,163,000[9]	9,714,000	8,696,010	2011[26]
25	Hyderabad		India	9,200,000	9,305,000	9,218,000[9]	8,754,000	-	-
26	Taipei		Taiwan	9,050,000	8,550,000	2,669,000[9]	7,438,000	8,916,653 [21]	2010
27	Hangzhou		China	8,450,000	6,820,000	-	7,275,000	-	-
28	Dongguan		China	Included in Guangzhou	8,310,000	7,469,000[9]	8,442,000	-	-
29	Wuhan		China	8,100,000	7,895,000	7,979,000[9]	7,509,000	9,785,392[27][28]	-
30	Shenyang		China	7,800,000	7,935,000	6,438,000[9]	6,078,000	8,106,171[29]	-
31	Hanoi		Vietnam	3,450,000	7,785,000	3,790,000[9]	3,715,000	-	-
32	Ahmedabad		India	7,650,000	7,645,000	7,571,000[9]	7,186,000	-	-
33	Kuala Lumpur		Malaysia	6,800,000	7,590,000	7,047,000[9]	7,088,000	1,768.00 [30][31]	2015
34	Hong Kong		China	7,300,000	7,330,000	-	7,246,000[9]	7,246,000	-
35	Nanjing		China	7,050,000	6,320,000	-	6,155,000	-	-
36	Zhengzhou-Xingyang		China	4,800,000	7,005,000	4,539,000[9]	4,942,000	-	-
37	Baghdad		Iraq	7,000,000	6,960,000	6,811,000[9]	6,625,000	-	-
38	Singapore		Singapore	6,950,000	5,825,000	5,717,000[9]	5,624,000	5,607,300 [32]	2017
38	Riyadh		Saudi Arabia	6,900,000	6,030,000	6,540,000[7]	6,666,000	6,506,000	2014
39	Quanzhou-Shishi-Jinjiang		China	Included in Xiamen [33]	6,480,000	1,469,000[9]	6,710,000	-	-

See also

• List of metropolitan areas by population

References