List of metropolitan areas in Asia

Asia is one of the world's fastest-growing continents, with increasing urbanisation and a high growth rate for cities. Tokyo, in Japan, 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	Metro Population (2024 est.)[1]	Demographia (2017 est.)[2]	UN WC (2016 est.)[3]	World Atlas (2017 est.)[4]	Official or Other	Est. Year
Guangzhou		China	70,100,000[5]	19,075,000	Guangzhou 13,070,000[6] Foshan 7,089,000[6]	20,597,000	12,700,800[7]	–
Mumbai		India	27,100,000	23,355,000	21,357,000[6]	17,712,000	47,800,000[8]	2001
Tokyo		Japan	41,000,000	37,977,000	38,140,000[9]	37,843,000	31,714,000[10]	2005
Delhi		India	34,600,000	29,617,000	26,454,000[6]	24,998,000	41,034,555 [11][12]	2011
Shanghai		China	40,800,000	23,390,000	24,484,000[11]	23,416,000	23,019,148[13]	2010
Jakarta		Indonesia	29,200,000	14,540,000	10,483,000[11]	30,539,000	15,519,545 [14]	2010
Manila		Philippines	27,200,000	24,245,000	13,131,000[6]	24,123,000	11,553,427[15]	2007
Seoul		South Korea	25,100,000	21,794,000	Seoul 9,979,000[11] Incheon 2,711,000[11]	23,480,000	26,015,868 [16]	2007
Dhaka		Bangladesh	22,500,000	16,820,000	18,237,000[9]	15,669,000	12,797,394[17]	2008
Beijing		China	21,200,000	20,415,000	21,240,000[6]	21,009,000	19,612,368[18]	2010
Bangkok		Thailand	21,200,000	15,645,000	9,440,000[9]	14,998,000	8,249,117 [19]	2010
Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (Keihanshin)		Japan	17,700,000	17,075,000	20,337,000[9]	17,440,000	16,663,000[10]	2005
Kolkata		India	18,560,853	18,560,853	18,560,853[6]	18,560,853	–	–
Chengdu		China	17,300,000	11,050,000	7,820,000[6]	10,376,000	–	–
Tehran		Iran	16,500,000	13,805,000	8,516,000[11]	13,532,000	13,422,366[20]	2006
Istanbul[21]		Turkey	15,900,000	15,154,000	14,365,000[11]	14,163,989	15,519,267[22]	2019
Bangalore		India	14,200,000	10,535,000	10,456,000[6]	8,728,906	8,499,399	2011[23]
Ho Chi Minh City		Vietnam	13,900,000	10,380,000	7,498,000[6]	8,957,000	7,955,000	2016
Hangzhou		China	13,900,000	6,820,000	–	7,275,000	–	–
Chongqing		China	10,900,000	7,990,000	13,744,000[6]	7,217,000	28,846,170[24][25]	2010
Tianjin		China	11,500,000	13,245,000	11,558,000[6]	10,920,000	12,938,224[26]	–
Chennai		India	12,600,000	12,395,000	10,163,000[6]	9,714,000	8,696,010	2022[23]
Shenzhen		China	included in Guangzhou	12,775,000	10,828,000	12,084,000[6]	10,357,938[27]	–
Wuhan		China	12,200,000	7,895,000	7,979,000[6]	7,509,000	9,785,392[28][29]	–
Hyderabad		India	11,400,000	9,305,000	9,218,000[6]	8,754,000	–	–
Nagoya		Japan	10,500,000	10,070,000	9,434,000[9]	10,177,000	9,046,000[10]	2005
Taipei		Taiwan	9,950,000	8,550,000	2,669,000[6]	7,438,000	8,916,653 [20]	2010
Zhengzhou-Xingyang		China	9,800,000	7,005,000	4,539,000[6]	4,942,000	–	–
Ahmedabad		India	9,600,000	7,645,000	7,571,000[6]	7,186,000	–	–
Kuala Lumpur		Malaysia	9,300,000	7,590,000	7,047,000[6]	7,088,000	1,768.00 [30][31]	2015
Nanjing		China	9,300,000	6,320,000	–	6,155,000	–	–
Shenyang		China	8,700,000	7,935,000	6,438,000[6]	6,078,000	8,106,171[32]	–
Dongguan		China	Included in Guangzhou	8,310,000	7,469,000[6]	8,442,000	–	–
Hanoi		Vietnam	7,150,000	7,785,000	3,790,000[6]	3,715,000	–	–
Singapore		Singapore	7,850,000	5,825,000	5,717,000[6]	5,624,000	5,607,300 [33]	2017
Baghdad		Iraq	7,650,000	6,960,000	6,811,000[6]	6,625,000	–	–
Riyadh		Saudi Arabia	7,500,000	6,030,000	6,540,000[11]	5,666,000	6,506,000	2014
Hong Kong		China	7,250,000	7,330,000	–	7,246,000[6]	7,246,000	–
Quanzhou-Shishi-Jinjiang		China	Included in Xiamen [34]	6,480,000	1,469,000[6]	6,710,000	–	–

See also

•  Asia portal
•  Cities portal
•  Geography portal

References