Asia is one of the world's fastest-growing continents, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Jakarta, in Indonesia, 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 in bold. 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 for Chongqing, Wuhan and Shenyang, they are not taken into account. The figure for Shanghai from City Population includes the city of Suzhou (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 the Guangdong province, also which includes the cities Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen and Huizhou. 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 of Quanzhou, Jinjiang and Shishi. 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 with the three other cities and this statistic is not taken into account. The figure for Delhi from City Population includes the cities of Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, which are not included in other estimates or in the official statistics and therefore is not taken into account. The figure for Mumbai from City Population includes the cities of Bhiwandi, Kalyan, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Vasai-Virar which 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:

With twenty cities, East Asia accounts for half of cities under this list, with China having the most with fifteen cities, South Asia comes second with ten cities, seven of which are in India. Southeast Asia accounts for seven cities and West Asia with just four cities.

List

Area Image Country MetroPopulation(2025 est.) Demographia(2017 est.) UN WC(2016 est.) WorldAtlas(2017 est.) Official orOther Est. Year Guangzhou 73,600,000This figure is for the urban population of the Guangdong province, which includes Shenzhen, Dongguan, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, and Huizhou, which has not yet been developed into a single metropolitan area 19,075,000 Guangzhou 13,070,000Urban AgglomerationFoshan 7,089,000 20,597,000 12,700,800 – Jakarta 29,800,000 35,386,000 32,594,159 30,539,000 54,842,885Kemendari 2023 census 2023 Mumbai 28,100,000 23,355,000 21,357,000 17,712,000 47,800,000 2001 Delhi 36,900,000 29,617,000 26,454,000 24,998,000 41,034,555 City proper 2011 Tokyo 41,300,000 37,977,000 38,140,000Metropolitan Area 37,843,000 31,714,000 2005 Shanghai 42,300,000 23,390,000 24,484,000 23,416,000 23,019,148 2010 Chongqing 13,200,000 7,990,000 13,744,000 7,217,000 28,846,1702010 CensusFigure for the municipality which extend well beyond the urban area (31,816 sq mi) 2010 Manila 27,100,000 24,245,000 13,131,000 24,123,000 14,001,751 2024 Seoul 25,400,000 21,794,000 Seoul 9,979,000Incheon 2,711,000 23,480,000 26,015,868 2007 Dhaka 23,700,000 16,820,000 18,237,000 15,669,000 12,797,394 2008 Bangkok 22,400,000 15,645,000 9,440,000 14,998,000 8,249,117 2010 Beijing 21,800,000 20,415,000 21,240,000 21,009,000 19,612,368 2010 Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Keihanshin) 17,700,000 17,075,000 20,337,000 17,440,000 16,663,000 2005 Surabaya 6,000,000 6,556,000 9,958,656 6,251,766 19,659,028Kemendari 2023 census 2023 Kolkata 18,100,000 18,560,853 18,560,853 18,560,853 – – Chengdu 18,300,000 11,050,000 7,820,000 10,376,000 – – Tehran 17,200,000 13,805,000 8,516,000 13,532,000 13,422,366 2006 IstanbulIstanbul is a transcontinental city straddling Eurasia. The majority of its residents live in the commercial and historical centre on the European side, and about a third of its population lives in suburbs on the Asian side of the Bosphorus, however the population figure includes the whole city. 16,200,000 15,154,000 14,365,000 14,163,989 15,519,267 2019 Bangalore 15,300,000 10,535,000 10,456,000 8,728,906 8,499,399 2011 Ho Chi Minh City 14,700,000 10,380,000 7,498,000 8,957,000 7,955,000 2016 Hangzhou 14,700,000 6,820,000 – 7,275,000 – – Chennai 13,300,000 12,395,000 10,163,000 9,714,000 8,696,010 2022 Tianjin 11,800,000 13,245,000 11,558,000 10,920,000 12,938,224 – Wuhan 12,900,000 7,895,000 7,979,000 7,509,000 9,785,392Figure for the municipality which extend well beyond the urban area (3,279.71 sq mi) – Shenzhen included in Guangzhou 12,775,000 10,828,000 12,084,000 10,357,938 – Hyderabad 12,100,000 9,305,000 9,218,000 8,754,000 – – Nagoya 10,500,000 10,070,000 9,434,000 10,177,000 9,046,000 2005 Zhengzhou-Xingyang 10,500,000 7,005,000 4,539,000 4,942,000 – – Taipei 10,200,000 8,550,000 2,669,000 7,438,000 8,916,653 2010 Ahmedabad 10,200,000 7,645,000 7,571,000 7,186,000 – – Kuala Lumpur 9,750,000 7,590,000 7,047,000 7,088,000 1,768.00 Federal Territory of Kuala LumpurPopulation projections for 2015 2015 Nanjing 9,750,000 6,320,000 – 6,155,000 – – Bandung 7,050,000 7,203,000 – 6,251,766 9,054,175Kemendari 2023 census 2023 Shenyang 8,950,000 7,935,000 6,438,000 6,078,000 8,106,171 – Dongguan Included in Guangzhou 8,310,000 7,469,000 8,442,000 – – Singapore 8,150,000 5,825,000 5,717,000 5,624,000 5,607,300 Statistic Singapore retrieved 2014/08/02 2017 Baghdad 8,000,000 6,960,000 6,811,000 6,625,000 – – Riyadh 7,900,000 6,030,000 6,540,000 5,666,000 6,506,000 2014 Hanoi 7,550,000 7,785,000 3,790,000 3,715,000 – – Hong Kong 7,500,000 7,330,000 – 7,246,000 7,246,000 – Quanzhou-Shishi-Jinjiang Included in Xiamen 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 6,480,000 1,469,000 6,710,000 – –

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