List of largest cities and second largest cities by country

This is a list of the largest and second-largest cities by population in each country. If a territory or region of a certain country is listed, the name of the country is specified in parentheses immediately after the name of the territory.

Durrës, Albania

Oran, Algeria

Córdoba, Argentina

Melbourne, Australia

Graz, Austria

Homel, Belarus

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Medellín, Colombia

Montreal, Canada

Split, Croatia

Quito, Ecuador

Alexandria, Egypt

Espoo, Finland

Hamburg, Germany

Thessaloniki, Greece

Quetzaltenango, Guatemala

Akureyri, Iceland

Delhi, India

Tel Aviv, Israel

Yokohama, Japan

Busan, South Korea

Kaunas, Lithuania

Johor Bahru, Malaysia

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Bergen, Norway

Cebu City, Philippines

Kraków, Poland

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Novi Sad, Serbia

Khartoum, Sudan

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Mwanza, Tanzania

Ankara, Turkey

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Los Angeles, United States

Hanoi, Vietnam

Aden, Yemen

Capital cities are in bold.

Country or territory	Largest city	Second largest city	Source
A
Abkhazia (Georgia)	Sukhumi	Gagra	^[1]
Afghanistan	Kabul	Kandahar	[1]
Akrotiri and Dhekelia (UK)	Episkopi Cantonment	Ayios Nikolaos	^{[citation needed]}
Åland Islands (Finland)	Mariehamn	Jomala	^{[citation needed]}
Albania	Tirana	Durrës	[2]
Algeria	Algiers	Oran	[3]
American Samoa (US)	Tafuna	Nu'uuli	[4]
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Les Escaldes	[5]
Angola	Luanda	Cabinda	[6]
Anguilla (UK)	North Side	The Valley	[7]
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	All Saints	[8]
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Córdoba	[9]
Armenia	Yerevan	Gyumri	[10]
Aruba (Netherlands)	Oranjestad	Sint Nicolaas	[11]
Australia	Sydney	Melbourne	[12]
Austria	Vienna	Graz	[13]
Azerbaijan	Baku	Ganja	[14]
B
Bahamas	Nassau	Freeport	[15]
Bahrain	Manama	Riffa	[16]
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Chittagong	[17]
Barbados	Bridgetown	Speightstown	[18]
Belarus	Minsk	Homel	[19]
Belgium	Brussels	Antwerp	[20]
Belize	Belize City	San Ignacio	[21]
Benin	Cotonou	Abomey-Calavi	[22]
Bermuda (UK)	St. George's	Hamilton	[23]
Bhutan	Thimphu	Phuntsholing	[24]
Bolivia	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	El Alto	[25]
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Banja Luka	[26]
Botswana	Gaborone	Francistown	[27]
Brazil	São Paulo	Rio de Janeiro	[28]
Brunei	Kampong Ayer	Bandar Seri Begawan	[29]
Bulgaria	Sofia	Plovdiv	[30]
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Bobo-Dioulasso	[31]
Burundi	Bujumbura	Muyiga	[32]
C
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Battambang	[33]
Cameroon	Douala	Yaoundé	[34]
Canada	Toronto	Montreal	[35]
Cape Verde	Praia	Mindelo	[36]
Cayman Islands (UK)	George Town	West Bay	[37]
Central African Republic	Bangui	Bimbo	[38]
Chad	N'Djamena	Moundou	[39]
Chile	Santiago	Puente Alto (city proper) Concepción (metropolitan area)	[40] [41]
China	Shanghai	Beijing	[42]
Christmas Island (Australia)	Flying Fish Cove	Poon Saan
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	Bantam	West Island
Colombia	Bogotá	Medellín	[43]
Comoros	Moroni	Mutsamudu	[44]
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Kinshasa	Lubumbashi	[45]
Congo, Republic of the	Brazzaville	Pointe-Noire	[46]
Cook Islands (New Zealand)	Avarua	Amuri	[47]
Costa Rica	San José	Limón	[48]
Côte d'Ivoire	Abidjan	Bouaké	[49]
Croatia	Zagreb	Split	[50]
Cuba	Havana	Santiago de Cuba	[51]
Curaçao (Netherlands)	Willemstad	Sint Michiel	[52]
Cyprus	Nicosia	Limassol	[53]
Czech Republic	Prague	Brno (city proper) Ostrava (metropolitan area)	[54] [55]
D
Denmark	Copenhagen	Aarhus	[56]
Djibouti	Djibouti	Ali Sabieh	[57]
Dominica	Roseau	Canefield	[58]
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Santiago de los Caballeros	[59]
E
East Timor	Dili	Dare	[60]
Ecuador	Guayaquil	Quito	[61]
Egypt	Cairo	Alexandria	[62]
El Salvador	San Salvador	Santa Ana	[63]
Equatorial Guinea	Bata	Malabo	[64]
Eritrea	Asmara	Assab	[65]
Estonia	Tallinn	Tartu	[66]
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Dire Dawa	[67]
F
Falkland Islands (UK)	Stanley	Goose Green	[68]
Faroe Islands (Denmark)	Tórshavn	Klaksvík	[69]
Fiji	Nasinu	Suva	[70]
Finland	Helsinki	Espoo (city proper) Tampere (metropolitan area)	[71] [72]
France	Paris	Marseille (city proper) Lyon (metropolitan area)	[73] [74]
French Guiana (France)	Cayenne	Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni	[75]
French Polynesia (France)	Papeete	Mahina	[76]
G
Gabon	Libreville	Port-Gentil	[77]
Gambia, The	Serekunda	Brikama	[78]
Georgia	Tbilisi	Kutaisi	[79]
Germany	Berlin (city proper) Ruhr (urban area)	Hamburg (city proper) Berlin (urban area)	[80]
Ghana	Accra	Kumasi	[81]
Gibraltar (UK)	Gibraltar is the only city		[82]
Greece	Athens	Thessaloniki	[83]
Greenland (Denmark)	Nuuk	Sisimiut	[84]
Grenada	St. George's	Gouyave	[85]
Guam (US)	Tamuning	Mangilao	[86]
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Quetzaltenango	[87]
Guernsey (UK)	Saint Peter Port	Vale	[88]
Guinea	Conakry	Guéckédou	[89]
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Gabú	[90]
Guyana	Georgetown	Linden	[91]
H
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Gonaïves	[92]
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	San Pedro Sula	[93]
Hong Kong	Kowloon	Victoria	[94]
Hungary	Budapest	Debrecen	[95]
I
Iceland	Reykjavík	Akureyri	[96]
India	Mumbai	Delhi	[97]
Indonesia	Jakarta	Surabaya (city proper) Bandung (metropolitan area)	[98] [99]
Iran	Tehran	Mashhad (city proper) Isfahan (metropolitan area)	[100] [101]
Iraq	Baghdad	Basra	[102]
Ireland	Dublin	Cork	[103]
Isle of Man (UK)	Douglas	Onchan	[104]
Israel	Jerusalem (city proper) Tel Aviv-Yafo^[2] (metropolitan area)	Tel Aviv-Yafo (city proper) Jerusalem (metropolitan area)	[105] [106]
Italy	Rome (city proper) Milan (metropolitan area)	Milan (city proper) Rome (metropolitan area)	[107] [108]
J
Jamaica	Kingston	Spanish Town	[109]
Japan	Tokyo	Yokohama (city proper) Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto (metropolitan area)	[110] [111]
Jersey (UK)	Saint Helier	Saint Saviour	[112]
Jordan	Amman	Zarqa	[113]
K
Kazakhstan	Almaty	Astana	[114]
Kenya	Nairobi	Mombasa	[115]
Kiribati	Bairiki	Taburao	[116]
Korea, North	Pyongyang	Hamhung	[117]
Korea, South	Seoul	Busan	[118]
Kosovo	Pristina	Prizren	[119]
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Al Jahra	[120]
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Osh	[121]
L
Laos	Vientiane	Pakxe	[122]
Latvia	Riga	Daugavpils	[123]
Lebanon	Beirut	Tripoli	[124]
Lesotho	Maseru	Hlotse	[125]
Liberia	Monrovia	Gbarnga	[126]
Libya	Tripoli	Benghazi	[127]
Liechtenstein	Schaan	Vaduz	[128]
Lithuania	Vilnius	Kaunas	[129]
Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	Esch-sur-Alzette	[130]
M
Macedonia	Skopje	Bitola	[131]
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Toamasina	[132]
Malawi	Lilongwe	Blantyre	[133]
Malaysia	Subang Jaya (city proper) Kuala Lumpur (metropolitan area)	Kuala Lumpur (city proper) Johor Bahru (metropolitan area)	[134] [135]
Maldives	Malé	Addu City	[136]
Mali	Bamako	Sikasso	[137]
Malta	Birkirkara (city proper) Valletta (metropolitan area)	Mosta (city proper)	[138] [139]
Marshall Islands	Rita	Ebeye	[140]
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Kiffa	[141]
Mauritius	Port Louis	Beau Bassin-Rose Hill	[142]
Mayotte (France)	Mamoudzou	Dzaoudzi
Mexico	Mexico City	Ecatepec de Morelos (city proper) Guadalajara (metropolitan population)	[143]
Federated States of Micronesia	Weno	Palikir	[144]
Moldova	Chişinău	Tiraspol	[145]
Monaco	Monte Carlo	La Condamine	[146]
Mongolia	Ulan Bator	Erdenet	[147]
Montenegro	Podgorica	Nikšić	[148]
Montserrat (UK)	Brades^[3]	Saint Peter's	[149]
Morocco	Casablanca	Rabat	[150]
Mozambique	Maputo	Nampula	[151]
Myanmar	Yangon	Mandalay	[152]
N
Nagorno-Karabakh (Azerbaijan)	Stepanakert	Shusha
Namibia	Windhoek	Rundu	[153]
Nauru	Yaren	Denigomudu
Nepal	Kathmandu	Pokhara	[154]
Netherlands	Amsterdam (city proper) Rotterdam-The Hague (urban area)	Rotterdam (city proper) Amsterdam (urban area)	[155] [156]
New Caledonia (France)	Nouméa	Wé	[157]
New Zealand	Auckland	Wellington	[158]
Nicaragua	Managua	León	[159]
Niger	Niamey	Zinder	[160]
Nigeria	Lagos	Ibadan	[161]
Niue (New Zealand)	Alofi	Avatele	[162]
Norfolk Island (Australia)	Burnt Pine	Kingston
Northern Cyprus (Cyprus)	Nicosia	Kyrenia
Northern Mariana Islands (US)	San Antonio^[4]	Garapan^[4]	[163]
Norway	Oslo	Bergen	[164]
O
Oman	Muscat	Salalah	[165]
P
Pakistan	Karachi	Lahore	[166]
Palau	Koror	Airai	[167]
Palestinian territories (Israel)	Gaza	Hebron (city proper) Jerusalem (metropolitan area)	[168] [169]
Panama	Panama City	David	[170]
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Lae	[171]
Paraguay	Asunción	Ciudad del Este	[172]
Peru	Lima	Arequipa	[173]
Philippines	Quezon City (city proper) Manila (metropolitan area)	Manila (city proper) Cebu (metropolitan area)	[174] ^[5]
Pitcairn Islands (UK)	Adamstown is the only city
Poland	Warsaw (city proper) Katowice (metropolitan area)	Kraków (city proper) Warsaw (metropolitan area)	[175] [176]
Portugal	Lisbon	Porto	[177]
Puerto Rico	San Juan	Bayamón (city proper) Ponce (metropolitan area)	[178] [179]
Q
Qatar	Doha	Al Khor	[180]
R
Romania	Bucharest	Cluj-Napoca	[181]
Russia	Moscow	Saint Petersburg	[182]
Rwanda	Kigali	Ruhengeri	[183]
S
Saint Barthélemy (France)	Gustavia	St. Jean
Saint Helena (UK)	Half Tree Hollow	Longwood	[184]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	Charlestown	[185]
Saint Lucia	Castries	Bexon	[186]
Saint Martin (France)	Marigot	Rambaud
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	Saint-Pierre	Miquelon	[187]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	Georgetown	[188]
Samoa	Apia	Vaitele	[189]
San Marino	Serravalle	Borgo Maggiore	[190]
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	Trindade	[191]
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Jeddah	[192]
Senegal	Dakar	Thiès	[193]
Serbia	Belgrade	Novi Sad	[194]
Seychelles	Victoria	Anse Etoile
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Bo	[195]
Singapore	Singapore is a city-state.		[196]
Sint Maarten (Netherlands)	Prince's Quarter	Cul De Sac	[197]
Slovakia	Bratislava	Košice	[198]
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Maribor	[199]
Solomon Islands	Honiara	Gizo	[200]
Somalia	Mogadishu	Hargeisa
Somaliland (Somalia)	Hargeisa	Berbera
South Africa	Cape Town^[6] (city proper) Johannesburg (metropolitan area)	Durban (city proper) Cape Town^[6] (metropolitan area)	[201] [202]
South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (UK)	King Edward Point	Grytviken
South Ossetia (Georgia)	Tskhinvali	Akhalgori
South Sudan	Juba	Yei
Spain	Madrid	Barcelona	[203]
Sri Lanka	Colombo	Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia (city proper) Kandy (metropolitan area)	[204] [205]
Sudan	Omdurman (city proper) Khartoum (metropolitan area)	Khartoum (city proper) Port Sudan (metropolitan area)	[206] [207]
Suriname	Paramaribo	Lelydorp	[208]
Svalbard and Jan Mayen (Norway)	Longyearbyen	Barentsburg	[209]
Swaziland	Manzini	Mbabane	[210]
Sweden	Stockholm	Gothenburg	[211]
Switzerland	Zürich	Geneva	[212]
Syria	Damascus (city proper) Aleppo (metropolitan area)	Aleppo (city proper) Damascus (metropolitan area)	[213] [214]
T
Taiwan	New Taipei (city proper) Taipei (metropolitan area)	Kaohsiung	^[7] ^[8]
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Khujand	[215]
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Mwanza	[216]
Thailand	Bangkok	Samut-Prakan city	[217] [218]
Togo	Lomé	Sokodé	[219]
Tokelau (New Zealand)	Fakaofo	Atafu	[220]
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	Mu'a	[221]
Transnistria (Moldova)	Tiraspol	Tighina
Trinidad and Tobago	Chaguanas	San Fernando	[222]
Tunisia	Tunis	Sfax	[223]
Turkey	Istanbul	Ankara	[224]
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	Türkmenabat	[225]
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	Five Cays	Honda Road	[226]
Tuvalu	Vaiaku^[9]	Asau	[227]
U
Uganda	Kampala	Gulu	[228]
Ukraine	Kiev	Kharkiv (city proper) Donetsk (metropolitan area)	[229] [230]
United Arab Emirates	Dubai	Sharjah (city proper) Abu Dhabi (metropolitan area)	[231] [232]
United Kingdom	London	Birmingham (city proper) Manchester-Liverpool (metropolitan area)	[233] [234]
United States of America	New York City	Los Angeles	[235]
Uruguay	Montevideo	Salto	[236]
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Namangan	[237]
V
Vanuatu	Port Vila	Luganville	[238]
Vatican City	Vatican City is the only city		[239]
Venezuela	Caracas	Maracaibo	[240]
Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City	Hanoi	[241]
Virgin Islands, British (UK)	Road Town	Spanish Town
Virgin Islands, United States (US)	Charlotte Amalie	Anna's Retreat
W
Wallis and Futuna (France)	Mata-Utu	Alele	[242]
Western Sahara (Morroco)	El Aaiún	Dakhla	[243]
Y
Yemen	Sana'a	Aden	[244]
Z
Zambia	Lusaka	Ndola	[245]
Zimbabwe	Harare	Bulawayo	[246]

References [edit]

^ "Sokhumi". Retrieved 2008-08-17. ^{[dead link]}
^ See: Capital of Israel
^ De facto capital. De jure capital is Plymouth.
^ ^a ^b Part of Saipan island, which is the capital of Northern Mariana Islands
^ See: Cities of the Philippines
^ ^a ^b One of three capital cities of South Africa
^ "民國99年12月戶口統計速報表(Chinese)". Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-10.
^ "Population for Township and District". Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-04.
^ Vaiaku is a part of Funafuti atoll, which is the capital of Tuvalu.

[1] "Sokhumi". Retrieved 2008-08-17. ^{[dead link]}

[2] See: Capital of Israel

[3] De facto capital. De jure capital is Plymouth.

[Saipan-4] Part of Saipan island, which is the capital of Northern Mariana Islands

[5] See: Cities of the Philippines

[Cape-6] One of three capital cities of South Africa

[7] "民國99年12月戶口統計速報表(Chinese)". Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-10.

[8] "Population for Township and District". Republic of China (Taiwan) Ministry of Interior. Retrieved 2011-01-04.

[9] Vaiaku is a part of Funafuti atoll, which is the capital of Tuvalu.

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