TOP 1,000 CITIES BY POPULATION. Data shows Earth's 1,000 most populous cities [2021] — home to 2,133,167,796 humans. Hover/select for details. 12 most populated. 1. Tokyo, Japan: 37,339,804. 2. Delhi, India: 31,181,376. 3. Shanghai, China: 27,795,702. 4. Sao Paulo, Brazil: 22,237,472. 5. Mexico City, Mexico: 21,918,936. 6.

This table lists the 336 incorporated places in the United States, excluding the U.S. territories, with a population of at least 100,000 as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau. Five states have no cities with populations exceeding 100,000. They are: Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The table displays:

Among these are Shanghai and Beijing in China, with populations of 29.9M and 22.2M million respectively, along with Delhi (33.8M), and Mumbai (21.7M) in India. However, Tokyo is the largest city in the world if the entire Tokyo metro area is included, with a total of 37.1M residents.

List of the largest cities in the United States, ranked by population, using the the latest 2024 census population data.

There are 81 cities in the world with a population exceeding 5 million people, according to 2018 estimates by the United Nations. The UN figures include a mixture of city proper, metropolitan area, and urban area.