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    Die Megacities der Welt mit über 10 Millionen Einwohnern (2025 und 2050 prognostiziert)

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    1. PaulOshanter on

      On one hand, sad that the Chicago metro won’t be a mega city anymore. On the other, at least it stays relatively affordable.

    3. former_farmer on

      Wrong. Buenos Aires city only has 3 million inhabitants. 
      Buenos Aires province, which is almost as big as Spain, has 10+ millions, yes. But it’s a big province.

    4. BlakeWheelersLeftNut on

      This map must be wrong I don’t see Winnipeg as a future mega city

    5. ausvargas on

      If Buenos Aires has 10 million then Rio de Janeiro should also be on the list.

    8. Content-Walrus-5517 on

      This map has been posted before with more information, iirc the criteria is that any contiguous urban agglomeration with minimum 1,500/km2 and a population of at least 50,000 is considered to be part of the same city

    10. Batman78917 on

      Why did you use these circles? You would have used just dots, and without overlapping names. You can’t read or see anything in India, China, and Southeast Asia

    12. GEO_VO on

      Riyadh, KSA should be listed as 2050 projected at least. About 8 million people live there now. Last year, around 400K people moved to Riyadh. With the current rate and the actual plan of the city, it can reach more than 10 million people by 2035.

    13. elhazelenby on

      The London „metro area“ has about 9.8 million according to the world population review, so not over 10 million. In 2023 the city of London (aka none of the other boroughs) has about 15,000 according to our office of national statistics. It should be 2050 projection only.

      Edit: apparently the UN says London is 10.4million in 2025.

      Dhaka in Bangladesh is 2nd most populous in the world and it’s not here??

      List on Wikipedia if anyone is interested
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacity

    14. wiz28ultra on

      Fascinating just how big some of the Asian metro areas are. I read a report from the UN that found that Jakarta and it’s neighboring cities have a total population of over 40 million people while Manila has somewhere along the lines of 24+ million people, considerably bigger than any New World city(Sao Paulo being the closest at 19 million).

    17. Monienium on

      There are way more Chinese cities with over 10m inhabitants right now than the map shows.

    18. Express-World-8473 on

      Saving you some time:

      OP’s source: [https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/world-urbanization-prospects-2025](https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/world-urbanization-prospects-2025)

      Some bits from that document:-

      Jakarta (Indonesia) is the world’s most populous city in 2025, with close to 42 million inhabitants. Jakarta is followed by Dhaka (Bangladesh) with nearly 37 million inhabitants, and Tokyo (Japan) with 33.4 million. Cairo (Egypt) is the only city among the top ten in 2025 that is not located in Asia (figure 2.2). Two Latin American cities, Mexico City (Mexico) and São Paulo (Brazil), were among the ten largest in 2000, but by 2010, they had been displaced in rank by fast-growing Cairo and Shanghai (China). Over the past quarter-century, the population of Tokyo has grown more slowly than those of Jakarta and Dhaka, and consequently, Tokyo’s rank among the world’s largest cities has fallen from first in 2000 to third by 2025. Looking to the future, Tokyo’s population is expected to shrink from 33.4 million in 2025 to 30.7 million in 2050, when it will have descended to seventh in rank among the world’s most populous cities.

      Tokyo and Seoul (Republic of Korea) are the only cities among the ten largest in 2025 that are expected to experience a population decline by the mid-century. Dhaka and Shanghai are expected to grow the fastest among 2025’s ten most populous cities, with projected growth rates close to 5 per cent per year between 2025 and 2050.

      By mid-century, Dhaka is expected to overtake Jakarta as the world’s largest city, while Shanghai is expected to ascend in rank from fifth to third. Karachi (Pakistan) has also experienced rapid population growth, which is anticipated to continue through midcentury. Karachi is expected to join the ten largest cities between 2025 and 2030, and with a projected population of almost 33 million in 2050, it could rise to fifth place, overtaking Cairo (32 million), Tokyo (31 million), Guangzhou, China (29 million), Manila, Philippines (27 million), and Kolkata, India (24 million).

      As of now, the largest cities by population are (In millions)

      Jakarta-41.9

      Dhaka-36.6

      Tokyo- 33.4

      New Delhi-30.2

      Shanghai-29.6

      Guangzhou-27.6

      Cairo-25.6

      Manila-24.7

      Kolkata-22.5

      Seoul-22.4

    19. founderofshoneys on

      I believe I found the methods and criteria for this. [https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2025_wup2025_summary_of_results.pdf](https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/sites/www.un.org.development.desa.pd/files/undesa_pd_2025_wup2025_summary_of_results.pdf)

      TLDR: the UN is using something called „degree of urbanization“ in an attempt to standardize how they measure without regard for the various country specific definitions of city proper, metro area, etc.

    20. Careless-Wrap6843 on

      Honestly I could see a sunbelt city like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta reaching megacity status by 2050.

      Edit:Also Toronto would be pretty close to that megacity amount in 20 years or so, with its huge growth.

    22. Ancient-Minute-8832 on

      There is this ambiguity between a city’s Greater and actual size. Greater Toronto Area similar in concept to Greater London, which the map does capture, and also Paris including the suburbs (where majority of the working class immigrants families live) needs to be factored in.

      However, the wider point this map is illustrating is that demographics is inevitably shifting to East, and if you believe demographics is the key component to economics, you’ll have more optimism in the orient. Let’s see how it pans out.

    23. TheSleepyTruth on

      Bit inconsistent with how we are measuring population here. Los Angeles it is looking at the metro area of 13M, as the city proper has closer to only 4M. Yet cities like Rio de Janeiro are excluded which has a city proper of 7M and metro area of 13M (larger than LA).

    24. quad_damage_orbb on

      >America is an irradiated wasteland. Within it lies a city. Outside the boundary walls, a desert. A cursed earth. Inside the walls, a cursed city, stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. An unbroken concrete landscape. 800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Mega blocks. Mega highways. Mega City One. Convulsing. Choking. Breaking under its own weight. Citizens in fear of the street. The gun. The gang. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: the men and women of the Hall of Justice. Juries. Executioners. Judges.

    26. OkJellyfish8149 on

      whyd they try to write whole name of bangkok lol? its like 2 minutes long. just say bangkok bro

    28. Plane-Top-3913 on

      Bogotá does not reach 10 million even with its metro area… very wrong map

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