List of megalopolises

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This is a list of megalopolises grouped by geographical region and country in 61 countries.

Map of world mega regions
Cairo/Nile Delta
Cairo/Nile Delta
Nairobi
Nairobi
Casablanca-Rabat-El Jadida-Salé-Kenitra
Casablanca-Rabat-El Jadida-Salé-Kenitra
Gauteng
Gauteng
Abidjan-Lagos
Abidjan-Lagos
Taiheyo
Taiheyo
Busan
Busan
Seoul
Seoul
West Taiwan
West Taiwan
Yangtze
Yangtze
Jing-Jin-Ji
Jing-Jin-Ji
Jakarta
Jakarta
Surabaya
Surabaya
Mega Manila
Mega Manila
Bangkok
Bangkok
Hanoi
Hanoi
SE Vietnam
SE Vietnam
Dhaka
Dhaka
Chennai
Chennai
Delhi
Delhi
Kolkata
Kolkata
Mumbai
Mumbai
GT Road
GT Road
Ista-Burs
Ista-Burs
Tehran
Tehran
Gulf of Finland
Gulf of Finland
Orange Banana
Orange Banana
Green banana
Green banana
STRING
STRING
Atlantic Axis
Atlantic Axis
Great Lakes
Great Lakes
Cascadia
Cascadia
Bajío
Bajío
Mexico City
Mexico City
NE corridor
NE corridor
Florida
Florida
Front Range
Front Range
Texas/Gulf Coast
Texas/Gulf Coast
Rio de la Plata
Rio de la Plata
Rio/Sao Paulo
Rio/Sao Paulo
Recife
Recife
Golden Triangle
Golden Triangle
Santiago-Valparaiso
Santiago-Valparaiso
Lima-Callao
Lima-Callao
Caracas-Valencia
Caracas-Valencia
Megalopolises of the world

Africa

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Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population
estimate
 Egypt Greater Cairo The Governorates of Cairo, Giza and Qalyubiyya 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 42,436,069[7]
 Ghana Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi-Takoradi
 Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan
 Nigeria Lagos
 Togo Lomé
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Asia

East Asia

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Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 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
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Southeast Asia

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Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Indonesia Jakarta metropolitan area (Jabodetabekpunjur)[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[citation needed] 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 BangkokAyutthayaPattaya 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
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Note: The Indonesian megalopolis names come from acronyms of the included cities.

South Asia

Satellite view of Indian Subcontinent
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Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Bangladesh Dhaka Megalopolis[13] Cities of Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj, Tongi, Savar, Siddhirganj, Keraniganj, Fatullah 21,551,232
 India Chennai Megalopolis[14] Districts of Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, Ranipet 12,400,000
Delhi-NCR Megalopolis[15] Cities of Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Meerut and Noida 46,000,000
Kolkata Megalopolis[16] Cities of Kolkata, Howrah, Hugli-Chuchura, Kalyani, Barrackpore, Barasat, Chandannagar 21,100,000
Mumbai Megalopolis[17] Cities of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivali, Vasai-Virar, Panvel 27,100,000
 Pakistan GT Road Megalopolis[18] Cities of Lahore, Kasur, Gujranwala, Sheikhupura, Gujrat, Raiwind, Kamoke, Muridke, Ghakhar and Jehlum 21,325,075[19]
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Southwest Asia

Istanbul, Kocaeli, and Sakarya provinces at night
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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, Izmit, and Adapazarı[20][21] 22,376,297[20][21][22]
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Europe

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.

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Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
Blue Banana  United Kingdom: Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham, Coventry, Milton Keynes, 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[23]
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[24]
Orange Banana  Ukraine: Odesa

 Romania: Constanţa

 Bulgaria: Varna, Burgas

 Turkey: Istanbul

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

 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[25]
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[26][27]
Gulf of Finland  Finland: Kotka, Kouvola, Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa, Lappeenranta, Lahti

 Russian Federation: Gatchina, Saint Petersburg, Vyborg, Sosnovy Bor

 Estonia: Tallinn, Narva, Tartu

9,000,000
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North America

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Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 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, Markham, Mississauga, Montreal, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Ottawa, Quebec City, Richmond Hill, 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[28]
 Canada Quebec City–Windsor Corridor Hamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Markham, Mississauga, Montreal, Oshawa, Ottawa, Peterborough, Quebec City, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Trois-Rivières, Vaughan, Waterloo, Windsor 18,400,000
 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
 Mexico

 United States

Southern California Mexico: Tijuana

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

24,400,000
 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[29]
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South America

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Country Megalopolis Major cities and areas Population estimate
 Argentina Uruguay Río de la Plata-Paraná Megaregion Greater Buenos Aires, Montevideo metropolitan area, Rosario metropolitan area, Greater La Plata, Santa Fé, Paraná, Punta del Este, Maldonado, Colonia del Sacramento, Zárate, Luján, Campana, San Nicolás de los Arroyos and San Pedro 22,016,634
 Brazil[30] 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, Baixada Fluminense, and Niterói-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, Cartago, Tuluá, Buga, Bello, Manizales, Armenia, Pereira, Dosquebradas, Ibagué, Girardot, El Espinal and Fusagasugá 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, Tuluá, Cartago, Buga and Palmira 9,000,000
Santander Belt Bucaramanga, Floridablanca, Girón, Piedecuesta, Cúcuta, Ocaña, Villa del Rosario 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
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Notes

  1. While initially excluded, has included in later versions

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