| Country | Megalopolis | Major cities and areas | Population
estimate |
|---|
| | 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] |
| Nairobi Metropolitan Region | The counties of Kajiado, Kiambu, Nairobi, Machakos and Murang'a | 10,411,220[3] |
| El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra | El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra | 11,000,000 |
| 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] |
| Abidjan–Lagos Corridor | Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Porto-Novo | 42,436,069[7] |
| Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi-Takoradi |
| Abidjan |
| Lagos |
| Lomé | |
| Country | Megalopolis | Major cities and areas | Population estimate |
|---|
| | | |
| 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] |
| 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 |
| West Coast of Taiwan[11] | Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung | 18,000,000 | |
Note: The Indonesian megalopolis names come from acronyms of the included cities.
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 | Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Leicester, Nottingham, Birmingham, London
Randstad (Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht), Eindhoven
Brussels, Antwerp, Ghent, Charleroi, Liège
Rhine-Ruhr, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Nuremberg
Luxembourg
Strasbourg, Lille, Paris
Zürich, Basel
Turin, Milan, Venice
| 110,000,000–130,000,000[18] |
| Golden Banana | Turin, Genoa
Monaco
Andorra
Girona, Barcelona, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Terrassa, Sabadell, Badalona, Tarragona, Castellón de la Plana, Valencia, Alicante
| 40,000,000–45,000,000[19] |
| Orange Banana | Odesa
Constanţa
Varna, Burgas
Istanbul
| 30,000,000 |
| Green Banana | Gdańsk, Warsaw, Łódź, Kraków, Katowice, Wrocław
Kyiv
Brno, Ostrava, Prague
Bratislava
Vienna
Zagreb, Rijeka
Ljubljana
Trieste
| 40,000,000–45,000,000 |
| STRING | Oslo (county Viken)
Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Malmö (counties Västra Götaland, Halland, Skåne)
Copenhagen (Capital Region of Denmark, Region of Southern Denmark)
Hamburg, Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein state)
| 14,000,000[20] |
| Atlantic Axis | Vigo, Ourense, Pontevedra, Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña
Setúbal, Lisbon, Santarém, Leiria, Coimbra, Viseu, Aveiro, Porto, Braga, Viana do Castelo
| 12,000,000[21] [22] |
| Gulf of Finland | Kotka, Kouvola, Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa, Lappeenranta, Lahti
Gatchina, Saint Petersburg, Vyborg, Sosnovy Bor
Tallinn, Narva, Tartu
| 7,000,000 | |
| width=100 | Country | Megalopolis | Major cities and areas | Population estimate |
|---|
| 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 |
| 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, 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[23] |
| 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 |
| North East Corridor | | 50,000,000[24] |
| Southern California | Mexico: Tijuana United States: Anaheim, Bakersfield, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oceanside, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego
| 24,400,000 |
| | | | |
| Country | Megalopolis | Major cities and areas | Population estimate |
|---|
| Greater Buenos Aires | Buenos Aires
- Merlo, Moreno; Quilmes; Florencio Varela, La Matanza
| 14,967,000[25] |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Santiago-Valparaíso | Santiago, Valparaíso-Viña del Mar and Rancagua | 8,000,000 |
| Lima-Callao Megalopolis | Lima and Callao | 12,523,796 |
| Caracas-Valencia | Caracas, Valencia, and Maracay | 9,000,000 |
| Maracaibo Lake Narrows | Maracaibo, Cabimas and Ciudad Ojeda | 3,500,000 | |
