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The Biggest City in The World

Whether you are planning a trip or just want to find out some interesting statistics, you will see that looking for the biggest city in the world isn’t an easy task at all.

There are several standards according to which ‘the biggest city’ ranks are made. First one is the number of population, so let’s see what the most populous cities on our planet are. The first city to be known for its big citizen number is Shanghai with almost 14 million people. This city is located in the east of China. Right after this one there is Mumbai in India with only around 2 thousand citizens less than Shanghai.

An interesting fact when comparing these two cities is that Shanghai has 7000 and Mumbai 22 thousand people per square kilometer! Other cities which can be proud of their citizens’ total number are Karachi (Pakistan), Delhi (India), Istanbul (Turkey), Sao Paolo (Brazil), Moscow (Russia), Seoul (South Korea) and Beijing (China). All of these cities have 10 or more million people living in them.

Besides ranking according to population, another way of measuring is by population of metropolitan area. According to this, Tokyo (Japan) has 32 and a half million people within a bit over 8 thousand square kilometers area. Two cities that have just over 20 million citizens are Seoul (South Korea) and Mexico City (Mexico).

Another parameter for ranking big cities is population density. That means taking average number of people who live on one square mile. In this case, Manila (Philippines) is in the first place. In Manila there are more than 43 thousand people living on a single square kilometer, even though the city itself has over 1.650.000 citizens in it. Next positions on the list are occupied by Bogor (Indonesia) and Titagarh, Baranagar and Serampore (all three in India).