Cities Making The Top 20 in A List
The numbers after each cell give the ranking of that city in that list. This table is designed to be a way to compare the different lists and discover which cities are well-recognised by all of them, without favouring one list over the others. Rankings in bold are the rankings of the cities in the top 20 of each sources' list. The first four columns are the four different lists used by Wikipedia; after them, external sources are given.
| City | Country | Urban Area | Urban Area (UN) | Metropolitan Area | City Proper | WorldAtlas | World Gazetteer | City Population | Proper density |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing | China | 16 | 13 | 19 | 9 | 12 | 23 | 16 | |
| Bogotá | Colombia | 31 | 30 | 20 | 30 | 36 | 33 | ||
| Buenos Aires | Argentina | 21 | 13 | 17 | 59 | 10 | 16 | 19 | |
| Cairo | Egypt | 11 | 17 | 16 | 25 | 17 | 13 | 18 | 45 |
| Delhi | India | 2 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 7 |
| Dhaka | Bangladesh | 24 | 9 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 20 | 38 | |
| Guangzhou | China | 23 | 28 | 26 | 44 | 61 | 2 | ||
| Istanbul | Turkey | 19 | 20 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 22 | ||
| Jakarta | Indonesia | 4 | 24 | 6 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 11 | |
| Karachi | Pakistan | 18 | 10 | 20 | 3 | 18 | 22 | 8 | |
| Kinshasa | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 29 | 29 | 17 | 46 | 28 | 31 | ||
| Kolkata | India | 13 | 8 | 14 | 44 | 9 | 14 | 15 | 10 |
| Lagos | Nigeria | 25 | 18 | 15 | 7 | 19 | 25 | ||
| Lima | Peru | 30 | 27 | 18 | 26 | 40 | 32 | ||
| London | United Kingdom | 32 | 30 | 18 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 24 | |
| Los Angeles | United States | 15 | 12 | 13 | 47 | 8 | 11 | 12 | |
| Metro Manila | Philippines | 5 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 1 | |
| Mexico City | Mexico | 9 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |
| Moscow | Russia | 17 | 19 | 15 | 7 | 24 | 15 | 16 | |
| Mumbai | India | 6 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 23 |
| New York City | United States | 7 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 8 | |
| Osaka | Japan | 12 | 16 | 9 | 18 | 12 | 14 | ||
| Rio de Janeiro | Brazil | 22 | 14 | 27 | 19 | 24 | 23 | ||
| São Paulo | Brazil | 8 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 9 | |
| Seoul | South Korea | 3 | 22 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 3 | |
| Shanghai | China | 10 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 4 | |
| Shenzhen | China | 14 | 26 | 12 | 11 | 29 | |||
| Tehran | Iran | 39 | 35 | 16 | 27 | 21 | 21 | ||
| Tianjin | China | 44 | 32 | 30 | 20 | 52 | 28 | ||
| Tokyo | Japan | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
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Famous quotes containing the words cities, making, top and/or list:
“The city is always recruited from the country. The men in cities who are the centres of energy, the driving-wheels of trade, politics or practical arts, and the women of beauty and genius, are the children or grandchildren of farmers, and are spending the energies which their fathers’ hardy, silent life accumulated in frosty furrows in poverty, necessity and darkness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
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—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“Lovers, forget your love,
And list to the love of these,
She a window flower,
And he a winter breeze.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)