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:
“We are in danger ... of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some of them powerful, almost all of them vociferous, and almost none of them capable of anything much more creative than credit-stealing and self- promotion.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)
“... when you make it a moral necessity for the young to dabble in all the subjects that the books on the top shelf are written about, you kill two very large birds with one stone: you satisfy precious curiosities, and you make them believe that they know as much about life as people who really know something. If college boys are solemnly advised to listen to lectures on prostitution, they will listen; and who is to blame if some time, in a less moral moment, they profit by their information?”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)
“Lastly, his tomb
Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
And none shall speak his name.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)