List of megalopolises

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This is a list megalopolises grouped by geographical region and country.

Africa[edit]

Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population
estimate
 Egypt Greater Cairo The Governorates of Cairo, Giza, Qalyubiyya and Helwan 22,183,000[1]
Nile Delta Governorates of Alexandria, Beheira, Kafr el-Sheikh, Gharbia, Monufia, Qalyubiyya, Dakahlia, Damietta, Al Sharqia, and Port Said 50,322,424[2]
 Kenya Nairobi Metropolitan Region The counties of Kajiado, Kiambu, Nairobi, Machakos and Murang'a 10,411,220[3]
 Morocco El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra 11,000,000
 South Africa Gauteng Province The cities of Pretoria, Witwatersrand and Vereeniging includes the urbanised portion of Pretoria, Centurion, Midrand, Johannesburg and the Vaal Triangle[4][5] 15,810,400[6]
 Benin Abidjan–Lagos Corridor Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Porto-Novo 27,000,000[7]
 Ghana Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi-Takoradi
 Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan
 Nigeria Lagos
 Togo Lomé

Asia[edit]

East Asia[edit]

  • Beijing, China
    Beijing, China
  • Hong Kong
    Hong Kong
  • Seoul, South Korea
    Seoul, South Korea
  • Shanghai, China
    Shanghai, China
  • Taipei, Taiwan
    Taipei, Taiwan
  • Tokyo, Japan
    Tokyo, Japan
Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 China
Further information: Megalopolises in China
 Japan Greater Tokyo Area Kantō region, broadly including Tokyo and Yokohama 38,000,000[8]
Keihanshin Kansai region, includes Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe 19,000,000[9]
Taiheiyō Belt (includes both the Greater Tokyo Area and Keihanshin megapoles) Ibaraki, Saitama, Chiba, Tokyo, Kanagawa, Shizuoka, Aichi, Gifu, Mie, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Wakayama, Okayama, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi, Fukuoka, and Ōita 81,000,000[10]
 South Korea Greater Busan Area Busan, Ulsan, Changwon, Gimhae, Yangsan, Jinju 13,000,000
Seoul National Capital Area Seoul, Incheon, Suwon, Goyang, Yongin, Seongnam, and the rest of Gyeonggi Province 26,000,000
 Taiwan West Coast of Taiwan[11] Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung 18,000,000

Southeast Asia[edit]

Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Indonesia Jakarta metropolitan area (Jabodetabek)[12] Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi 54,900,000
Surabaya metropolitan area (Gerbangkertosusila) Gresik, Bangkalan, Mojokerto, Surabaya, Sidoarjo and Lamongan 19,700,000
 Philippines Mega Manila Regions Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mimaropa excluding Palawan, and regional centers San Fernando-Manila-Calamba-Calapan 41,100,000
 Thailand Bay of Bangkok Economic Rim Bangkok–Ayutthaya–Pattaya 20,800,000
 Vietnam Red River Delta Hanoi, Hai Phong, Nam Định, and Hải Dương 21,000,000
Southeast Economic Zone Đồng Nai, Bình Dương, Ho Chi Minh City, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Long An, Tiền Giang 22,900,000

Note: The Indonesian megalopolis names come from acronyms of the included cities.

South Asia[edit]

Satellite view of Indian Subcontinent
Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 India Chennai Megalopolis[13] Districts of Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, Vellore 25,000,000
Delhi-NCR Megalopolis[14] Cities of Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Meerut and Noida 46,000,000
Mumbai Megalopolis[15] Cities of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivali, Vasai-Virar, Panvel 26,000,000

Southwest Asia[edit]

Istanbul, Kocaeli, and Sakarya provinces at night
Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Iran Greater Tehran Tehran and Alborz provinces expanding into Mazandaran, Qazvin, and Qom 15,000,000
 Turkey Ista-Burs Cities of Istanbul and Bursa; Gebze, Yalova, Kocaeli, and Adapazarı[16][17] 22,376,297[16][17][18]

Europe[edit]

Blue, Green and Golden Bananas, Atlantic Axis and Gulf of Finland

Ordered by population estimate rather than alphabetical by country due to the number of countries included in each megalopolis.
These are not generally accepted names or groupings, and the cities listed are in many cases not contiguous.

Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
Blue Banana  United Kingdom: Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Derby, Nottingham, Birmingham, London

 Netherlands: Randstad (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht), Eindhoven

 Belgium: Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège

 Germany: Rhine-Ruhr, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg

 Luxembourg: Luxembourg

 France: Strasbourg, Lille, Paris[note 1]

  Switzerland: Zürich, Basel

 Italy: Turin, Milan, Venice

110,000,000–130,000,000[19]
Golden Banana  Italy: Turin, Genoa

 France: Nice, Toulon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Nîmes, Montpellier, Narbonne, Perpignan

 Monaco: Monaco

 Andorra: Andorra

 Spain: Girona, Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Terrassa, Sabadell, Badalona, Tarragona, Castellón de la Plana, Valencia, Alicante

40,000,000–45,000,000[20]
Orange Banana  Ukraine: Odesa

 Romania: Constanţa

 Bulgaria: Varna, Burgas

 Turkey: Istanbul

30,000,000
Green Banana  Poland: Gdańsk, Warsaw, Łódź, Kraków, Katowice, Wrocław

 Ukraine: Kyiv

 Czech Republic: Brno, Ostrava, Prague

 Slovakia: Bratislava

 Austria: Vienna

 Hungary: Budapest, Pécs, Győr, Székesfehérvár, Szombathely

 Croatia: Zagreb, Rijeka

 Slovenia: Ljubljana

 Italy: Trieste

40,000,000–45,000,000
STRING  Norway: Oslo (county Viken)

 Sweden: Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Malmö (counties Västra Götaland, Halland, Skåne)

 Denmark: Copenhagen (Capital Region of Denmark, Region of Southern Denmark)

 Germany: Hamburg, Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein state)

14,000,000[21]
Atlantic Axis  Spain: Vigo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña

 Portugal: Setúbal, Lisbon, Santarém, Leiria, Coimbra, Viseu, Aveiro, Porto, Braga, Viana do Castelo

12,000,000[22][23]
Gulf of Finland  Finland: Kotka, Kouvola, Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa, Lappeenranta, Lahti

 Russia: Gatchina, Saint Petersburg, Vyborg, Sosnovy Bor

 Estonia: Tallinn, Narva, Tartu

7,000,000

North America[edit]

Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Canada Quebec City–Windsor Corridor Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Mississauga, Montreal, Oshawa, Ottawa, Peterborough, Quebec City, Toronto, Trois-Rivières, Vaughan, Windsor 18,400,000
 Canada

 United States

Cascadia Canada: Abbotsford, Surrey, Vancouver (BC), Victoria

United States: Bellevue, Eugene, Everett, Portland (OR), Salem, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Tri-Cities, Vancouver (WA)

8,400,000
Great Lakes Canada: Brampton, Cambridge, Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Mississauga, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Ottawa, Quebec City, Toronto, Vaughan, Waterloo, Windsor
United States: Akron, Ann Arbor, Buffalo, Canton, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Des Moines, Detroit, Duluth, Erie, Flint, Fort Wayne, Green Bay, Grand Rapids, Indianapolis, Kalamazoo, Kansas City, Lansing, Louisville, Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Omaha, Pittsburgh, Quad Cities, Rochester (NY), Rochester (MN), Rockford, Traverse City, Saginaw, St. Louis, Saint Paul, Sandusky, South Bend, Toledo, Youngstown 		59,100,000[24]
 Mexico Bajío Guadalajara, León, Querétaro, Aguascalientes, Celaya, Irapuato, San Juan del Río, Salamanca 11,000,000
Mexico City megalopolis Mexico City, Puebla, Cuernavaca, Toluca, Pachuca, Tula, Tlaxcala, Cuautla, Tulancingo 30,800,000
 United States North East Corridor Albany, Arlington, Baltimore, Boston, Brookhaven, Hartford, Hempstead, Jersey City, Newark, New Haven, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Springfield, Washington D.C. 50,000,000[25]
 Mexico

 United States

Southern California Mexico: Tijuana

United States: Anaheim, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oceanside, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego

24,400,000
 United States
Further information: Megaregions of the United States

South America[edit]

  • Satellite image of Greater Buenos Aires at night
    Satellite image of Greater Buenos Aires at night
  • Parque Lezama, Buenos Aires
    Parque Lezama, Buenos Aires
  • Ponte Estaiada, São Paulo
    Ponte Estaiada, São Paulo
  • Expanded Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo, Brazil
    Expanded Metropolitan Complex of São Paulo, Brazil
  • Bogotá Skyline
    Bogotá Skyline
  • Cartagena de Indias
    Cartagena de Indias
  • Santiago, Chile
    Santiago, Chile
  • Lima, Perú
    Lima, Perú
  • Maracaibo Lake Narrows, the city of Maracaibo connected by bridge to the Eastern Coast cities.
    Maracaibo Lake Narrows, the city of Maracaibo connected by bridge to the Eastern Coast cities.
  • Caracas, Venezuela
    Caracas, Venezuela
Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Argentina Greater Buenos Aires Buenos Aires; Merlo, Moreno; Quilmes; Florencio Varela, La Matanza 14,967,000[26]
 Brazil[27] Eixo Goiânia-Anápolis-Brasília Greater Goiânia and Federal District (Brazil) 8,000,000
Greater Belo Horizonte Belo Horizonte and Contagem 5,800,000
Greater Curitiba Curitiba and São José dos Pinhais 3,500,000
Greater Porto Alegre Porto Alegre and Canoas 4,200,000
Greater Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro and São Gonçalo 13,000,000
Recife metropolitan area Recife and Jaboatão dos Guararapes 3,900,000
Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo Megalopolis São Paulo Macrometropolis and Greater Rio de Janeiro 51,500,000
São Paulo Macrometropolis São Paulo, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Sorocaba, Jundiaí, Piracicaba, Santos 34,500,000
Salvador metropolitan area Salvador and Camaçari 3,900,000
 Colombia Bogota National Capital Metropolis Bogotá, Soacha, Facatativá, Chía, Tunja, Fusagasugá, Zipaquirá, Madrid, Funza, Cajicá, Ubaté, Sibaté, Guaduas, Villa de Leyva and Tocancipá 17,000,000
Golden Triangle Bogotá, Soacha, Medellín, Cali, Bello, Manizales, Armenia 29,500,000
Northeast Atlantic Region Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Ciénaga, Malambo, Baranoa and Turbaco 6,000,000
Pacific Belt Medellín, Cali, Bello, Pereira, Manizales, Armenia, Itagüí, Yumbo, and Palmira 9,000,000
Santander Belt Bucaramanga, Cúcuta, Ocaña, and Pamplona 3,000,000
 Chile Santiago-Valparaíso Santiago, Valparaíso-Viña del Mar and Rancagua 8,000,000
 Peru Lima-Callao Megalopolis Lima and Callao 12,523,796
 Venezuela Caracas-Valencia Caracas, Valencia, and Maracay 9,000,000
Maracaibo Lake Narrows Maracaibo, Cabimas and Ciudad Ojeda 3,500,000

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ While initially excluded, has included in later versions

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