Largest Megalopolis Areas
Rank | Metropolitan area | Country | Population |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Southern China Coast Megalopolis (Pearl River Delta (an emerging single megacity, 120 million alone)-Chaoshan-Xiamen-Quanzhou-Fuzhou | China Hong Kong, China Macau, China |
200,000,000 |
2 | Yangtze River Delta | China | 100,000,000 |
3 | Taiheiyō Belt | Japan | 84,000,000 |
4 | (Bengal Megalopolis)Kolkata-Khulna-Dhaka-Chittagong | Bangladesh India |
60,000,000 |
5 | Beijing–Tianjin (Hebei's cities cluster) | China | 39,710,000 |
6 | Mega Manila | Philippines | 35,000,000 |
7 | Incheon–Seoul–Daejon–Daegu–Busan | South Korea | 32,890,000 |
8 | Mumbai-Pune-Nashik | India | 30,000,000 |
9 | Jabodetabek (Greater Jakarta) | Indonesia | 28,000,000 |
10 | Delhi-Gurgaon-Noida-Ghaziabad | India | 26,000,000 |
11 | Karachi-Hyderabad | Pakistan | 25,000,000 |
12 | Greater Bangkok–Chon Buri-Nakhon Ratchasima | Thailand | 20,000,000 |
13 | West coast of Taiwan | Taiwan | 18,000,000 |
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