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List of metropolitan areas in Asia

Asiais one of the world's fastest-growing continents, with increasingurbanisationand a high growth rate for cities.Tokyo,inJapan,is the world's largest metropolitan area by population.

The populations of the given cities are obtained from five sources:

  • Cities
  • World Atlas
  • National Official Estimate (NOE)

Out of these five sources, the highest estimate is shown inbold.The cities are ranked on the basis of their highest estimate of population. Some remarks:

  • 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 forChongqing,WuhanandShenyang,they are not taken into account.
  • The figure for Shanghai from City Population includes the city ofSuzhou(some 100 km or 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 theGuangdongprovince, also which includes the cities Shenzhen,Dongguan,Zhongshan,JiangmenandHuizhou.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 ofQuanzhou,Jin gian gandShishi.City Population includes these three cities in its figures forXiamen(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 figure forDelhifrom City Population includes the cities ofFaridabad,Ghaziabad,Gurgaon,which are not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore is not taken into account.
  • The figure forMumbaifrom City Population includes the cities ofBhiwandi,Kalyan,Thane,Ulhasnagar,Vasai-Virarwhich are not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore 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:

East Asia
South Asia
Southeast Asia
West Asia

With twenty cities,East Asiaaccounts for half of cities under this list, with China having the most with fifteen cities,South Asiacomes second with ten cities, seven of which are inIndia.Southeast Asiaaccounts for seven cities andWest Asiawith just four cities.

List

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Area Image Country Metro
Population
(2024 est.)[1] 		Demographia
(2017 est.)[2] 		UNWC
(2016 est.)[3] 		World
Atlas
(2017 est.)[4] 		Official or
Other 		Est. Year
Guangzhou China 70,100,000[5] 19,075,000 Guangzhou 13,070,000[6]
Foshan 7,089,000[6] 		20,597,000 12,700,800[7] –
Jakarta Indonesia 29,200,000 35,386,000 32,594,159 30,539,000 54,842,885[8] 2023
Mumbai India 27,100,000 23,355,000 21,357,000[6] 17,712,000 47,800,000[9] 2001
Delhi India 34,600,000 29,617,000 26,454,000[6] 24,998,000 41,034,555[10][11] 2011
Tokyo Japan 41,000,000 37,977,000 38,140,000[12] 37,843,000 31,714,000[13] 2005
Shanghai China 40,800,000 23,390,000 24,484,000[10] 23,416,000 23,019,148[14] 2010
Manila Philippines 27,200,000 24,245,000 13,131,000[6] 24,123,000 11,553,427[15] 2007
Seoul South Korea 25,100,000 21,794,000 Seoul 9,979,000[10]
Incheon 2,711,000[10] 		23,480,000 26,015,868[16] 2007
Dhaka Bangladesh 22,500,000 16,820,000 18,237,000[12] 15,669,000 12,797,394[17] 2008
Beijing China 21,200,000 20,415,000 21,240,000[6] 21,009,000 19,612,368[18] 2010
Bangkok Thailand 21,200,000 15,645,000 9,440,000[12] 14,998,000 8,249,117[19] 2010
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto(Keihanshin) Japan 17,700,000 17,075,000 20,337,000[12] 17,440,000 16,663,000[13] 2005
Surabaya Indonesia 5,900,000 6,556,000 9,958,656 6,251,766 19,659,028[20] 2023
Kolkata India 18,560,853 18,560,853 18,560,853[6] 18,560,853 – –
Chengdu China 17,300,000 11,050,000 7,820,000[6] 10,376,000 – –
Tehran Iran 16,500,000 13,805,000 8,516,000[10] 13,532,000 13,422,366[21] 2006
Istanbul[22] Turkey 15,900,000 15,154,000 14,365,000[10] 14,163,989 15,519,267[23] 2019
Bangalore India 14,200,000 10,535,000 10,456,000[6] 8,728,906 8,499,399 2011[24]
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 13,900,000 10,380,000 7,498,000[6] 8,957,000 7,955,000 2016
Hangzhou China 13,900,000 6,820,000 – 7,275,000 – –
Chongqing China 10,900,000 7,990,000 13,744,000[6] 7,217,000 28,846,170[25][26] 2010
Tianjin China 11,500,000 13,245,000 11,558,000[6] 10,920,000 12,938,224[27] –
Shenzhen China included in Guangzhou 12,775,000 10,828,000 12,084,000[6] 10,357,938[28] –
Chennai India 12,600,000 12,395,000 10,163,000[6] 9,714,000 8,696,010 2022[24]
Wuhan China 12,200,000 7,895,000 7,979,000[6] 7,509,000 9,785,392[29][30] –
Hyderabad India 11,400,000 9,305,000 9,218,000[6] 8,754,000 – –
Nagoya Japan 10,500,000 10,070,000 9,434,000[12] 10,177,000 9,046,000[13] 2005
Taipei Taiwan 9,950,000 8,550,000 2,669,000[6] 7,438,000 8,916,653[21] 2010
Zhengzhou-Xingyang China 9,800,000 7,005,000 4,539,000[6] 4,942,000 – –
Ahmedabad India 9,600,000 7,645,000 7,571,000[6] 7,186,000 – –
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia 9,300,000 7,590,000 7,047,000[6] 7,088,000 1,768.00[31][32] 2015
Nanjing China 9,300,000 6,320,000 – 6,155,000 – –
Bandung Indonesia 6,950,000 7,203,000 – 6,251,766 9,054,175[33] 2023


Shenyang China 8,700,000 7,935,000 6,438,000[6] 6,078,000 8,106,171[34] –
Dongguan China Included in Guangzhou 8,310,000 7,469,000[6] 8,442,000 – –
Singapore Singapore 7,850,000 5,825,000 5,717,000[6] 5,624,000 5,607,300[35] 2017
Hanoi Vietnam 7,150,000 7,785,000 3,790,000[6] 3,715,000 – –
Baghdad Iraq 7,650,000 6,960,000 6,811,000[6] 6,625,000 – –
Riyadh Saudi Arabia 7,500,000 6,030,000 6,540,000[10] 5,666,000 6,506,000 2014
Hong Kong China 7,250,000 7,330,000 – 7,246,000[6] 7,246,000 –
Quanzhou-Shishi-Jin gian g China Included in Xiamen[36] 6,480,000 1,469,000[6] 6,710,000 – –

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References

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  30. ^Figure for the municipality which extend well beyond the urban area (3,279.71 sq mi)
  31. ^Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur
  32. ^Population projections for 2015
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  36. ^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
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