City	Country	City proper population	Urban area population[7]	Metropolitan area population
1	Shanghai	 China	24,256,800[8]	23,416,000[a]	34,750,000[9]
2	Karachi	 Pakistan	23,500,000[10]	25,400,000[11]	25,400,000
3	Beijing	 China	21,516,000[12]	21,009,000	21,148,000[13]
4	São Paulo	 Brazil	21,292,893[14]	20,365,000	36,842,102[15]
5	Dhaka	 Bangladesh	16,970,105[16]	15,669,000	18,305,671[17]
6	Delhi	 India	16,787,941[18]	24,998,000	21,753,486[19]
7	Lagos	 Nigeria	16,060,303[note 1]	13,123,000	21,000,000[22]
8	Istanbul	 Turkey	14,657,000[23]	15,328,000[23]	16,703,000[23]
9	Tokyo	 Japan	13,513,734[24]	37,843,000	36,923,000[25]
10	Mumbai	 India	12,478,447[19]	17,712,000	20,748,395[19]
11	Moscow	 Russia	12,197,596[26]	16,170,000
12	Guangzhou	 China	12,080,500[27]	20,597,000	23,900,000[28]
13	Paris	 France	10,858,000	12,005,077[29]
14	Shenzhen	 China	10,780,000[30]	12,084,000	10,630,000[31]
15	Suzhou	 China	10,650,501[32]
16	Kinshasa	 Democratic Republic of the Congo	10,130,000[33]	13,265,000
17	Cairo	 Egypt	10,230,350[34]	18,290,000	22,439,541
18	Jakarta	 Indonesia	10,075,310[35]	30,539,000	30,075,310[36]
19	Lahore	 Pakistan	10,052,000	10,355,000
20	Seoul	 South Korea	9,995,784[37]	12,700,000	25,520,000[38]
21	Mexico City	 Mexico	8,974,724[39]	20,063,000	21,178,959[40]
22	London	 United Kingdom	8,673,713[41]	10,236,000	14,031,830[29]
23	Lima	 Peru	8,852,000[42]	10,750,000	9,886,647[43]
24	New York City	 United States	8,491,079[44]	20,630,000	20,092,883[45]
25	Bengaluru	 India	8,425,970[19]	9,807,000	8,728,906[19]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_largest_cities