Most Cities by Country 2025

The estimated number of humans on the planet stands at around 8.14 billion. Both China and India have about 1.4 billion citizens a piece.

With over 1.4 people, China is the second most highly populated nation in the world – after India. As of 2020 data, China has 105 cities with a population of at least a million and another ten cities with communes with over ten million citizens.

Megacities were created in China to handle the increasing urban population, including Guangzhou (pop. 44,294,245), Shenzhen, Tianjin, Chongqing (pop. 25,165,500), Beijing (pop. 22,500,000), and Shanghai (pop. 35,965,403).

India is the country with the largest population and the seventh-largest country by land area.

Brazil is fifth in land size and seventh in the overall population. Two hundred sixteen million people live in Brazil, with almost 87% living in urban areas.

Although Brazil has over three hundred urban regions, only fifteen cities have over a million residents. The most highly populated city in Brazil is São Paulo (pop. 12,038,175), followed by Rio de Janeiro (pop. 6,498,837), Brasilia, Salvator, and Fortaleza.

Russia has sixteen cities with over one million citizens. Moscow (pop. 13 million) and Saint Petersburg (pop. 5.6 million) are the largest cities in Russia by population.

Japan has 103 cities that house nearly 64 million of its citizens. The most populated city in Japan is Tokyo at 9.7 million people, followed by Yokohama (pop. 3.7 million), Osaka (pop. 2,670,000), Nagoya (pop. 2,266,000), and Sapporo (pop.1,906,000).

Jakarta, Indonesia is the only megacity in this country with over ten million residents. It is the fourteenth most populated city in the world. Other large cities in Indonesia include Surabaya (pop. 2.87 million), Bekasi (pop. 2.54 million), and Bandung (pop. 2.44 million).

Pakistan has ten cities with over a million people. Peshawar is the largest city in Pakistan, with over 2 million residents, followed by Multan (pop. 1.8 million) and Quetta (pop. 1 million).