List of metropolitan areas in Asia

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The Asian continent is one of the fastest-growing continents in the World, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Tokyo in Japan is the world's largest metropolitan area by population.

The population of the given cities are obtained from five different 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:

  East Asia
  South Asia
  Southeast Asia
  West Asia

With twenty cities, East Asia accounts for half of cities under this list, with China having the lion's share 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[]

Rank Area Image Country Metro
Population
(2017 est.)[1] 		Demographia
(2017 est.)[2] 		UN WC
(2016 est.)[3] 		World
Atlas
(2017 est.)[4] 		Official or
Other 		Est. Year
1 Tokyo Shinjuku skyline, Tokyo - Sony A7R (11831328835).jpg  Japan 40,400,000 37,977,000 38,140,000[5] 37,843,000 31,714,000[6] 2005
2 Jakarta Jakarta.jpg  Indonesia 31,300,000 34,540,000 10,483,000[7] 30,539,000 15,519,545 [8] 2010
(Census Final)
3 Delhi  India 30,300,000 29,617,000 26,454,000[9] 24,998,000 11,034,555 [7][10] 2011
4 Mumbai Mumbai skyline BWSL.jpg  India 25,100,000 23,355,000 21,357,000[9] 17,712,000 17,800,000[11] 2001
5 Seoul Seoul (South Korea).jpg  South Korea 24,800,000 21,794,000 Seoul 9,979,000[7]
Incheon 2,711,000[7] 		23,480,000 24,272,000 [12] 2007
6 Shanghai Pudong Shanghai November 2017 panorama.jpg  China 31,100,000[13] 23,390,000 24,484,000[7] 23,416,000 23,019,148[14] 2010
7 Manila Manila Aerial.jpg  Philippines 24,100,000 24,245,000 13,131,000[9] 24,123,000 11,553,427[15] 2007
8 Karachi Karachi from above.jpg  Pakistan 24,000,000 14,910,352 15,121,000[7] 16,123,000 - -
9 Beijing Beijing skyline from northeast 4th ring road (cropped).jpg  China 20,700,000 20,415,000 21,240,000[9] 21,009,000 19,612,368[16] 2010
10 Guangzhou-Foshan Guangzhou Twin Towers.jpg  China 48,600,000[17] 19,075,000 Guangzhou 13,070,000[9]
Foshan 7,089,000[9] 		20,597,000 12,700,800[18] -
11 Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Keihanshin) Nakanoshima Skyscrapers in 201504 001.jpg  Japan 17,800,000 17,075,000 20,337,000[5] 17,440,000 16,663,000[6] 2005
12 Dhaka Bangladesh Bank (33398162476).jpg  Bangladesh 17,190,000 16,820,000 18,237,000[5] 15,669,000 12,797,394[19] 2008
13 Bangkok 0008871 - Krung Thep Bridge 001.jpg  Thailand 17,400,000 15,645,000 9,440,000[5] 14,998,000 8,249,117 [20] 2010
14 Kolkata Kolkata City skyline from Hoogly bridge.jpg  India 16,200,000 14,950,000 14,980,000[9] 14,667,000 - -
15 Istanbul[21] Levent, Istanbul at night.jpg  Turkey 16,000,000 15,154,000 14,365,000[7] 14,163,989 15,519,267[22] 2019
16 Tehran North of Tehran Skyline view.jpg  Iran 24,000,000 13,805,000 8,516,000[7] 13,532,000 13,422,366[23] 2006
17 Chongqing A View of Chongqing Central Business District.jpg  China 7,200,000 7,990,000 13,744,000[9] 7,217,000 28,846,170[24][25] 2010
18 Tianjin Tianjin Skyline 2009 Sep 11 by Nangua 1.jpg  China 11,800,000 13,245,000 11,558,000[9] 10,920,000 12,938,224[26] -
19 Shenzhen Lo Wu District 201701.jpg  China included in Guangzhou 12,775,000 10,828,000 12,084,000[9] 10,357,938[27] -
20 Chengdu Jiuyanqiao.jpg  China 9,750,000 11,050,000 7,820,000[9] 10,376,000 - -
21 Chennai Chennai metro during trail run during night.JPG  India 11,000,000 10,565,000 10,163,000[9] 9,714,000 8,696,010 2011[28]
22 Bangalore UB City at night .jpg  India 10,800,000 10,535,000 10,456,000[9] 8,728,906 8,499,399 2011[28]
23 Lahore Badshahi Mosquee, Lahore.jpg  Pakistan 10,500,000 10,666,000 8,990,000[9] 10,052,000 - -
24 Nagoya Meieki from Heiwa Park Aqua Tower.jpg  Japan 10,500,000 10,070,000 9,434,000[5] 10,177,000 9,046,000[6] 2005
25 Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City Skyline (night).jpg  Vietnam 8,310,000 10,380,000 7,498,000[9] 8,957,000 7,955,000 2016
26 Hyderabad Gachibowli IT & Financial District Skyline View, Dec 2018.jpg  India 9,200,000 9,305,000 9,218,000[9] 8,754,000 - -
27 Taipei Taipei, Taiwan CBD Skyline.jpg  Taiwan 9,050,000 8,550,000 2,669,000[9] 7,438,000 8,916,653 [23] 2010
28 Hangzhou Hangzhou CBD (Cropped).jpg  China 8,450,000 6,820,000 - 7,275,000 - -
29 Dongguan 旗峰山顶看南城.jpg  China Included in Guangzhou 8,310,000 7,469,000[9] 8,442,000 - -
30 Wuhan WuhanSkyline.jpg  China 8,100,000 7,895,000 7,979,000[9] 7,509,000 9,785,392[29][30] -
31 Shenyang Shenyang Qingnian Street.JPG  China 7,800,000 7,935,000 6,438,000[9] 6,078,000 8,106,171[31] -
32 Hanoi West Hanoi.jpg  Vietnam 3,450,000 7,785,000 3,790,000[9] 3,715,000 - -
33 Ahmedabad Ahmedabad BRTS.jpg  India 7,650,000 7,645,000 7,571,000[9] 7,186,000 - -
34 Kuala Lumpur Moonrise over kuala lumpur.jpg  Malaysia 6,800,000 7,590,000 7,047,000[9] 7,088,000 1,768.00 [32][33] 2015
35 Hong Kong Hong Kong Harbour Night 2019-06-11.jpg  Hong Kong
 7,300,000 7,330,000 - 7,246,000[9] 7,246,000 -
36 Singapore Singapore Marina Bay Dusk 2018-02-27.jpg  Singapore 7,058,000 5,825,000 5,717,000[9] 5,624,000 5,607,300 [34] 2017
37 Nanjing Nanjing downtown.jpg  China 7,050,000 6,320,000 - 6,155,000 - -
38 Zhengzhou-Xingyang Zhengdong CBD 01.jpg  China 4,800,000 7,005,000 4,539,000[9] 4,942,000 - -
39 Riyadh Riyadh Skyline.jpg  Saudi Arabia 7,676,654 6,030,000 6,540,000[7] 5,666,000 6,506,000 2014
40 Baghdad فندق بغداد روتانا.jpg  Iraq 7,144,000 6,960,000 6,811,000[9] 6,625,000 - -
41 Quanzhou-Shishi-Jinjiang 泉州浦西万达广场 - panoramio.jpg  China Included in Xiamen [35] 6,480,000 1,469,000[9] 6,710,000 - -

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  35. ^ 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
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