Back قائمة أكبر المدن في العالم Arabic اكبر المدن فى العالم ARZ Dėdliausė svieta miestā BAT-SMG বিশ্বের বৃহত্তম শহরের তালিকা Bengali/Bangla Seznam největších měst světa Czech Dinasoedd mwya'r byd Welsh Μεγαλύτερες πόλεις του κόσμου Greek List of largest cities English فهرست پرجمعیتترین شهرها Persian Liste des villes et agglomérations les plus peuplées French
This is a list of the largest cities in the world by number of people.
The number of people in a city can be counted in three ways:[1]
- City proper: The area that is officially part of the city, according to the government.
- Urban area: An area of built-up land, with many roads, buildings, and infrastructure. It usually has many people close together, who do not work in farming. Rural land is the opposite: it has a small number of people and buildings. In this list, an urban area is an area of urban land that is continuous: it has no spaces in between that are rural.
- Metropolitan area: An urban area, and nearby areas where people frequently travel (commute) to the urban area. Some of these areas are suburbs and some can have a small number of people. This is according to the government, so it can mean different things in different countries.
- ↑ UNICEF. 2012. The State of the World’s Children 2012: Children in an Urban World. New York, UNICEF.