Central Intelligence Agency

Mission

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is an independent US Government agency responsible for providing national security intelligence to senior US policymakers.

To learn more, visit CIA Vision, Mission & Values.

The Work of a Nation. The Center of Intelligence

Field Listing :: Major cities - population

This entry provides the population of the capital and up to four major cities defined as urban agglomerations with populations of at least 750,000 people. An urban agglomeration is defined as comprising the city or town proper and also the suburban fringe or thickly settled territory lying outside of, but adjacent to, the boundaries of the city. For smaller countries, lacking urban centers of 750,000 or more, only the population of the capital is presented.

Country	Major cities - population


Afghanistan	KABUL (capital) 3.573 million (2009)


Albania	TIRANA (capital) 433,000 (2009)


Algeria	ALGIERS (capital) 2.74 million; Oran 770,000 (2009)


American Samoa	PAGO PAGO (capital) 60,000 (2009)


Andorra	ANDORRA LA VELLA (capital) 25,000 (2009)


Angola	LUANDA (capital) 4.511 million; Huambo 979,000 (2009)


Anguilla	THE VALLEY (capital) 2,000 (2009)


Antigua and Barbuda	SAINT JOHN'S (capital) 27,000 (2009)


Argentina	BUENOS AIRES (capital) 12.988 million; Cordoba 1.493 million; Rosario 1.231 million; Mendoza 917,000; San Miguel de Tucuman 831,000 (2009)


Armenia	YEREVAN (capital) 1.11 million (2009)


Aruba	ORANJESTAD (capital) 33,000 (2009)


Australia	Sydney 4.429 million; Melbourne 3.853 million; Brisbane 1.97 million; Perth 1.599 million; CANBERRA (capital) 384,000 (2009)


Austria	VIENNA (capital) 1.693 million (2009)


Azerbaijan	BAKU (capital) 1.95 million (2009)


Bahamas, The	NASSAU (capital) 248,000 (2009)


Bahrain	MANAMA (capital) 163,000 (2009)


Bangladesh	DHAKA (capital) 14.251 million; Chittagong 4.816 million; Khulna 1.636 million; Rajshahi 853,000 (2009)


Barbados	BRIDGETOWN (capital) 112,000 (2009)


Belarus	MINSK (capital) 1.837 million (2009)


Belgium	BRUSSELS (capital) 1.892 million; Antwerp 961,000 (2009)


Belize	BELMOPAN (capital) 20,000 (2009)


Benin	COTONOU (seat of government) 815,000; PORTO-NOVO (capital) 276,000 (2009)


Bermuda	HAMILTON (capital) 12,000 (2009)


Bhutan	THIMPHU (capital) 89,000 (2009)


Bolivia	LA PAZ (capital) 1.642 million; Santa Cruz 1.584 million; Sucre 281,000 (2009)


Bosnia and Herzegovina	SARAJEVO (capital) 392,000 (2009)


Botswana	GABORONE (capital) 196,000 (2009)


Brazil	Sao Paulo 19.96 million; Rio de Janeiro 11.836 million; Belo Horizonte 5.736 million; Porto Alegre 4.034 million; BRASILIA (capital) 3.789 million (2009)


British Virgin Islands	ROAD TOWN (capital) 9,000 (2009)


Brunei	BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (capital) 22,000 (2009)


Bulgaria	SOFIA (capital) 1.192 million (2009)


Burkina Faso	OUAGADOUGOU (capital) 1.777 million (2009)


Burma	RANGOON (capital) 4.259 million; Mandalay 1.009 million; Nay Pyi Taw 992,000 (2009)


Burundi	BUJUMBURA (capital) 455,000 (2009)


Cambodia	PHNOM PENH (capital) 1.519 million (2009)


Cameroon	Douala 2.053 million; YAOUNDE (capital) 1.739 million (2009)


Canada	Toronto 5.377 million; Montreal 3.75 million; Vancouver 2.197 million; OTTAWA (capital) 1.17 million; Calgary 1.16 million (2009)


Cape Verde	PRAIA (capital) 125,000 (2009)


Cayman Islands	GEORGE TOWN (capital) 32,000 (2009)


Central African Republic	BANGUI (capital) 702,000 (2009)


Chad	N'DJAMENA (capital) 808,000 (2009)


Chile	SANTIAGO (capital) 5.883 million; Valparaiso 865,000 (2009)


China	Shanghai 16.575 million; BEIJING (capital) 12.214 million; Chongqing 9.401 million; Shenzhen 9.005 million; Guangzhou 8.884 million (2009)


Colombia	BOGOTA (capital) 8.262 million; Medellin 3.497 million; Cali 2.352 million; Barranquilla 1.836 million; Bucaramanga 1.065 million (2009)


Comoros	MORONI (capital) 49,000 (2009)


Congo, Democratic Republic of the	KINSHASA (capital) 8.401 million; Lubumbashi 1.543 million; Mbuji-Mayi 1.488 million; Kananga 878,000; Kisangani 812,000 (2009)


Congo, Republic of the	BRAZZAVILLE (capital) 1.292 million (2009)


Costa Rica	SAN JOSE (capital) 1.416 million (2009)


Cote d'Ivoire	ABIDJAN (seat of government) 4.009 million; YAMOUSSOUKRO (capital) 808,000 (2009)


Croatia	ZAGREB (capital) 685,000 (2009)


Cuba	HAVANA (capital) 2.14 million (2009)


Cyprus	NICOSIA (capital) 240,000 (2009)


Czech Republic	PRAGUE (capital) 1.162 million (2009)


Denmark	COPENHAGEN (capital) 1.174 million (2009)


Djibouti	DJIBOUTI (capital) 567,000 (2009)


Dominica	ROSEAU (capital) 14,000 (2009)


Dominican Republic	SANTO DOMINGO (capital) 2.138 million (2009)


Ecuador	Guayaquil 2.634 million; QUITO (capital) 1.801 million (2009)


Egypt	CAIRO (capital) 10.902 million; Alexandria 4.387 million (2009)


El Salvador	SAN SALVADOR (capital) 1.534 million (2009)


Equatorial Guinea	MALABO (capital) 128,000 (2009)


Eritrea	ASMARA (capital) 649,000 (2009)


Estonia	TALLINN (capital) 399,000 (2009)


Ethiopia	ADDIS ABABA (capital) 2.863 million (2009)


Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)	STANLEY (capital) 2,000 (2009)


Fiji	SUVA (capital) 174,000 (2009)


Finland	HELSINKI (capital) 1.107 million (2009)


France	PARIS (capital) 10.41 million; Marseille-Aix-en-Provence 1.457 million; Lyon 1.456 million; Lille 1.028 million; Nice-Cannes 977,000 (2009)


French Polynesia	PAPEETE (capital) 133,000 (2009)


Gabon	LIBREVILLE (capital) 619,000 (2009)


Gambia, The	BANJUL (capital) 436,000 (2009)


Georgia	TBILISI (capital) 1.115 million (2009)


Germany	BERLIN (capital) 3.438 million; Hamburg 1.786 million; Munich 1.349 million; Cologne 1.001 million (2009)


Ghana	ACCRA (capital) 2.269 million; Kumasi 1.773 million (2009)


Greece	ATHENS (capital) 3.252 million; Thessaloniki 834,000 (2009)


Greenland	NUUK (capital) 15,000 (2009)


Grenada	SAINT GEORGE'S (capital) 40,000 (2009)


Guam	HAGATNA (capital) 153,000 (2009)


Guatemala	GUATEMALA CITY (capital) 1.075 million (2009)


Guinea	CONAKRY (capital) 1.597 million (2009)


Guinea-Bissau	BISSAU (capital) 302,000 (2009)


Guyana	GEORGETOWN (capital) 132,000 (2009)


Haiti	PORT-AU-PRINCE (capital) 2.143 million (2010)


Honduras	TEGUCIGALPA (capital) 1 million (2009)


Hungary	BUDAPEST (capital) 1.705 million (2009)


Iceland	REYKJAVIK (capital) 198,000 (2009)


India	NEW DELHI (capital) 21.72 million; Mumbai 19.695 million; Kolkata 15.294 million; Chennai 7.416 million; Bangalore 7.079 million (2009)


Indonesia	JAKARTA (capital) 9.121 million; Surabaya 2.509 million; Bandung 2.412 million; Medan 2.131 million; Semarang 1.296 million (2009)


Iran	TEHRAN (capital) 7.19 million; Mashhad 2.592 million; Esfahan 1.704 million; Karaj 1.531 million; Tabriz 1.459 million (2009)


Iraq	BAGHDAD (capital) 5.751 million; Mosul 1.447 million; Erbil 1.009 million; Basra 923,000; As Sulaymaniyah 836,000 (2009)


Ireland	DUBLIN (capital) 1.084 million (2009)


Isle of Man	DOUGLAS (capital) 26,000 (2009)


Israel	Tel Aviv-Yafo 3.219 million; Haifa 1.027 million; JERUSALEM (capital) 768,000 (2009)


Italy	ROME (capital) 3.357 million; Milan 2.962 million; Naples 2.27 million; Turin 1.662 million; Palermo 872,000 (2009)


Jamaica	KINGSTON (capital) 580,000 (2009)


Japan	TOKYO (capital) 36.507 million; Osaka-Kobe 11.325 million; Nagoya 3.257 million; Fukuoka-Kitakyushu 2.809 million; Sapporo 2.673 million (2009)


Jordan	AMMAN (capital) 1.088 million (2009)


Kazakhstan	Almaty 1.383 million; ASTANA (capital) 650,000 (2009)


Kenya	NAIROBI (capital) 3.375 million; Mombassa 966,000 (2009)


Kiribati	TARAWA (capital) 43,000 (2009)


Korea, South	SEOUL (capital) 9.778 million; Busan (Pusan) 3.439 million; Incheon (Inch'on) 2.572 million; Daegu (Taegu) 2.458 million; Daejon (Taejon) 1.497 million (2009)


Kuwait	KUWAIT (capital) 2.23 million (2009)


Kyrgyzstan	BISHKEK (capital) 854,000 (2009)


Laos	VIENTIANE (capital) 799,000 (2009)


Latvia	RIGA (capital) 711,000 (2009)


Lebanon	BEIRUT (capital) 1.909 million (2009)


Lesotho	MASERU (capital) 220,000 (2009)


Liberia	MONROVIA (capital) 882,000 (2009)


Libya	TRIPOLI (capital) 1.095 million (2009)


Liechtenstein	VADUZ (capital) 5,000 (2009)


Lithuania	VILNIUS (capital) 546,000 (2009)


Luxembourg	LUXEMBOURG (capital) 90,000 (2009)


Macedonia	SKOPJE (capital) 480,000 (2009)


Madagascar	ANTANANARIVO (capital) 1.816 million (2009)


Malawi	Blantyre 856,000; LILONGWE (capital) 821,000 (2009)


Malaysia	KUALA LUMPUR (capital) 1.493 million; Klang 1.071 million; Johor Bahru 958,000 (2009)


Maldives	MALE (capital) 120,000 (2009)


Mali	BAMAKO (capital) 1.628 million (2009)


Malta	VALLETTA (capital) 199,000 (2009)


Marshall Islands	MAJURO (capital) 30,000 (2009)


Mauritania	NOUAKCHOTT (capital) 709,000 (2009)


Mauritius	PORT LOUIS (capital) 149,000 (2009)


Mexico	MEXICO CITY (capital) 19.319 million; Guadalajara 4.338 million; Monterrey 3.838 million; Puebla 2.278 million; Tijuana 1.629 million (2009)


Micronesia, Federated States of	PALIKIR (capital) 7,000 (2009)


Moldova	CHISINAU (capital) 650,000 (2009)


Mongolia	ULAANBAATAR (capital) 949,000 (2009)


Montenegro	PODGORICA (capital) 144,000 (2009)


Morocco	Casablanca 3.245 million; RABAT (capital) 1.77 million; Fes 1.044 million; Marrakech 909,000; Tangier 768,000 (2009)


Mozambique	MAPUTO (capital) 1.589 million; Matola 761,000 (2009)


Namibia	WINDHOEK (capital) 342,000 (2009)


Nepal	KATHMANDU (capital) 990,000 (2009)


Netherlands	AMSTERDAM (capital) 1.044 million; Rotterdam 1.008 million; The Hague (seat of government) 629,000 (2009)


New Caledonia	NOUMEA (capital) 144,000 (2009)


New Zealand	Auckland 1.36 million; WELLINGTON (capital) 391,000 (2009)


Nicaragua	MANAGUA (capital) 934,000 (2009)


Niger	NIAMEY (capital) 1.004 million (2009)


Nigeria	Lagos 10.203 million; Kano 3.304 million; Ibadan 2.762 million; ABUJA (capital) 1.857 million; Kaduna 1.519 million (2009)


Northern Mariana Islands	SAIPAN (capital) NA (2009)


Norway	OSLO (capital) 875,000 (2009)


Oman	MUSCAT (capital) 634,000 (2009)


Pakistan	Karachi 13.125 million; Lahore 7.132 million; Faisalabad 2.849 million; Rawalpindi 2.026 million; ISLAMABAD (capital) 832,000 (2009)


Panama	PANAMA CITY (capital) 1.346 million (2009)


Papua New Guinea	PORT MORESBY (capital) 314,000 (2009)


Paraguay	ASUNCION (capital) 1.977 million (2009)


Peru	LIMA (capital) 8.769 million; Arequipa 778,000 (2009)


Philippines	MANILA (capital) 11.449 million; Davao 1.48 million; Cebu City 845,000; Zamboanga 827,000 (2009)


Poland	WARSAW (capital) 1.71 million; Krakow 756,000 (2009)


Portugal	LISBON (capital) 2.808 million; Porto 1.344 million (2009)


Puerto Rico	SAN JUAN (capital) 2.73 million (2009)


Qatar	DOHA (capital) 427,000 (2009)


Romania	BUCHAREST (capital) 1.933 million (2009)


Russia	MOSCOW (capital) 10.523 million; Saint Petersburg 4.575 million; Novosibirsk 1.397 million; Yekaterinburg 1.344 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.267 million (2009)


Rwanda	KIGALI (capital) 909,000 (2009)


Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha	JAMESTOWN (capital) 1,000 (2009)


Saint Kitts and Nevis	BASSETERRE (capital) 13,000 (2009)


Saint Lucia	CASTRIES (capital) 15,000 (2009)


Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SAINT-PIERRE (capital) 5,000 (2009)


Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	KINGSTOWN (capital) 28,000 (2009)


Samoa	APIA (capital) 36,000 (2009)


Sao Tome and Principe	SAO TOME (capital) 60,000 (2009)


Saudi Arabia	RIYADH (capital) 4.725 million; Jeddah 3.234 million; Mecca 1.484 million; Medina 1.104 million; Ad Dammam 902,000 (2009)


Senegal	DAKAR (capital) 2.777 million (2009)


Serbia	BELGRADE (capital) 1.115 million (2009)


Seychelles	VICTORIA (capital) 26,000 (2009)


Sierra Leone	FREETOWN (capital) 875,000 (2009)


Slovakia	BRATISLAVA (capital) 428,000 (2009)


Slovenia	LJUBLJANA (capital) 260,000 (2009)


Solomon Islands	HONIARA (capital) 72,000 (2009)


Somalia	MOGADISHU (capital) 1.353 million (2009)


South Africa	Johannesburg 3.607 million; Cape Town 3.353 million; Ekurhuleni (East Rand) 3.144 million; Durban 2.837 million; PRETORIA (capital) 1.404 million (2009)


South Sudan	JUBA (capital) 250,000 (2008 est.)


Spain	MADRID (capital) 5.762 million; Barcelona 5.029 million; Valencia 812,000 (2009)


Sri Lanka	COLOMBO (capital) 681,000 (2009)


Sudan	KHARTOUM (capital) 5.021 million (2009)


Suriname	PARAMARIBO (capital) 259,000 (2009)


Swaziland	MBABANE (capital) 74,000 (2009)


Sweden	STOCKHOLM (capital) 1.279 million (2009)


Switzerland	Zurich 1.143 million; BERN (capital) 346,000 (2009)


Syria	Aleppo 2.985 million; DAMASCUS (capital) 2.527 million; Hims 1.276 million; Hamah 854,000 (2009)


Tajikistan	DUSHANBE (capital) 704,000 (2009)


Tanzania	DAR ES SALAAM (capital) 3.207 million (2009)


Thailand	BANGKOK (capital) 6.902 million (2009)


Timor-Leste	DILI (capital) 166,000 (2009)


Togo	LOME (capital) 1.593 million (2009)


Trinidad and Tobago	PORT-OF-SPAIN (capital) 57,000 (2009)


Tunisia	TUNIS (capital) 759,000 (2009)


Turkey	Istanbul 10.378 million; ANKARA (capital) 3.846 million; Izmir 2.679 million; Bursa 1.559 million; Adana 1.339 million (2009)


Turkmenistan	ASHGABAT (capital) 637,000 (2009)


Turks and Caicos Islands	GRAND TURK (capital) 6,000 (2009)


Uganda	KAMPALA (capital) 1.535 million (2009)


Ukraine	KYIV (capital) 2.779 million; Kharkiv 1.455 million; Dnipropetrovsk 1.013 million; Odesa 1.009 million; Donetsk 971,000 (2009)


United Arab Emirates	ABU DHABI (capital) 666,000 (2009)


United Kingdom	LONDON (capital) 8.615 million; Birmingham 2.296 million; Manchester 2.247 million; West Yorkshire 1.541 million; Glasgow 1.166 million (2009)


United States	New York-Newark 19.3 million; Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana 12.675 million; Chicago 9.134 million; Miami 5.699 million; WASHINGTON, D.C. (capital) 4.421 million (2009)


Uruguay	MONTEVIDEO (capital) 1.633 million (2009)


Uzbekistan	TASHKENT (capital) 2.201 million (2009)


Venezuela	CARACAS (capital) 3.051 million; Maracaibo 2.153 million; Valencia 1.738 million; Barquisimeto 1.159 million; Maracay 1.04 million (2009)


Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City 5.976 million; HANOI (capital) 2.668 million; Haiphong 1.941 million; Da Nang 807,000 (2009)


Virgin Islands	CHARLOTTE AMALIE (capital) 54,000 (2009)


Western Sahara	Laayoune 237,000 (2011)


Yemen	SANAA (capital) 2.229 million (2009)


Zambia	LUSAKA (capital) 1.413 million (2009)


Zimbabwe	HARARE (capital) 1.606 million (2009)

The online Factbook is updated weekly. ISSN 1553-8133
For additional information on government leaders in selected foreign countries, go to World Leaders.