According to the just released 11th edition of Demographia World

Urban Areas (Built-Up Urban Areas or World Agglomerations), there

are now 34 urban areas in the world with more than 10 million

residents, the minimum qualification for megacity status. Tokyo-

Yokohama continues its 60 year leads the world's largest urban area.

Before Tokyo-Yokohama, New York had been the world's largest

urban area for 30 years. London's run, preceding that of New York,

was much longer, at more than 100 years. Beijing, which was the first

of today's megacities to reach 1,000,000 population, held the title for

75 years before London, according to census and urban historian

Tertius Chandler.

Largest Cities in 2015

Tokyo-Yokohama grew to 37.8 million residents,

the largest urban area population ever recorded. But

second ranking Jakarta is moving up quickly,

becoming the second urban area in history to exceed

30 million residents (30.6 million). Regrettably,

Jakarta is often left off world city top ten lists,

because the continuous urbanization extending into

the regencies of Tangerang, Bogor, Bekasi and

Karawang usually excluded (see The Evolving

Urban Form: Jakarta). Regencies are national

second level jurisdictions, within the provinces that

make up Indonesia.

As indicated in a recent article (World Megacities:

Densities Fall as they Become Larger), the number

of megacities rose from 29 to 34 (megacities are

urban areas with more than 10 million residents).

These include Tianjin and Chengdu in China, Lahore (Pakistan), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and

Lima (Peru). China now leads the world with six (Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou-Foshan, Shenzhen, Tianjin and

Chengdu). The ten largest urban areas are shown in Figure 3 and detailed population data is in Table 1 of World Urban

Areas.
Where Urban Population is Growing

Asia's has more than half (57 percent) of the population

in cities of 500,000 and more (Figure 4). This is more than

four times the population of such cities in North America,

five times that of Africa and Europe and approximately

six times that of South America. With stagnant population

growth in the high income world and declines in some

nations, there is every reason to believe that urbanization

in North America and Europe will continue to decline

relative to that of Asia, Africa and South America.

There are two generic definitions of cities: urban areas and

metropolitan areas. Urban areas define the physical expanse

of cities, which is the area of continuous urban development.

The second definition for cities is economic. The economic

city is the metropolitan area, which includes the urban area

and economically connected territory outside the urban área.

An urban area is a continuously built up land mass of urban development that is within a labor market

(metropolitan area or metropolitan region). As a part of a labor market, an urban area cannot cross customs

controlled boundaries unless the virtually free movement of labor is permitted. An urban area contains no rural

land (all land in the world that is not urban is considered rural.



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