global cities population over 10 million

Now if you look at the list above, a few things should jump out at you. In total these cities house around 2.1 billion people or around 28% of the world’s population. The top 5 countries with the most 100K+ cities are: So I used data from their count called Africapolis.

The one big exception was Central and West Africa, where an organisation called E-Geopolis did their own count and found many official statistics overblown ( some background). So I looked what Wikipedia had and in many cases it really helped (surprisingly often the German version was better than the English one). It was created by reddit user Fingolas, who explains how the map was created:Ī little background: I started with a list from the United Nations, later realising, that it’s not complete (China is missing, for example) and it not in every case contains the most current data. The map above shows the 4,037 cities in the world that have over 100,000 people living in them.

Map created by Fingolas, Interactive version

Global cities population over 10 million