Cities of the world

The 1,914 cities with at least 300,000 inhabitants in 2025, according to the United Nations. Choose the year and the order: by population, by area or by density. Individual cities are available from 1975 to 2050; from 1950 you can see how many cities there are by size.

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Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). After 2025, projections. Cities measured as the built-up, densely inhabited area (DEGURBA method). Before 1975 the UN only gives the number of cities by size class (file 34).