List of megalopolises explained

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

Africa

CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation
estimate
The Governorates of Cairo, Giza, Qalyubiyya and Helwan22,183,000[1]
Nile DeltaGovernorates of Alexandria, Beheira, Kafr el-Sheikh, Gharbia, Monufia, Qalyubiyya, Dakahlia, Damietta, Al Sharqia, and Port Said50,322,424[2]
Nairobi Metropolitan RegionThe counties of Kajiado, Kiambu, Nairobi, Machakos and Murang'a10,411,220[3]
El Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-KenitraEl Jadida-Casablanca-Rabat-Salé-Kenitra11,000,000
Gauteng ProvinceThe 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 CorridorAbomey-Calavi, Cotonou, Porto-Novo42,436,069[7]
Accra, Cape Coast, Sekondi-Takoradi
Abidjan
Lagos
Lomé

Asia

East Asia

CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation estimate
Greater Tokyo AreaKantō region, broadly including Tokyo and Yokohama38,000,000[8]
KeihanshinKansai region, includes Osaka, Kyoto, Kobe19,000,000[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 Ōita81,000,000[10]
Greater Busan AreaBusan, Ulsan, Changwon, Gimhae, Yangsan, Jinju13,000,000
Seoul National Capital AreaSeoul, Incheon, Suwon, Goyang, Yongin, Seongnam, and the rest of Gyeonggi Province26,000,000
West Coast of Taiwan[11] Taipei, New Taipei City, Keelung, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Changhua, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung18,000,000

Southeast Asia

CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation estimate
Jakarta metropolitan area (Jabodetabek)[12] Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi54,900,000
Surabaya metropolitan area (Gerbangkertosusila)Gresik, Bangkalan, Mojokerto, Surabaya, Sidoarjo and Lamongan19,700,000
Mega ManilaRegions Central Luzon, Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Mimaropa excluding Palawan, and regional centers San Fernando-Manila-Calamba-Calapan41,100,000
Bay of Bangkok Economic RimBangkokAyutthayaPattaya20,800,000
Red River DeltaHanoi, Hai Phong, Nam Định, and Hải Dương21,000,000
Southeast Economic ZoneĐồng Nai, Bình Dương, Ho Chi Minh City, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province, Long An, Tiền Giang22,900,000
Note: The Indonesian megalopolis names come from acronyms of the included cities.

South Asia

CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation estimate
Chennai Megalopolis[13] Districts of Chennai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Chengalpattu, Vellore25,000,000
Delhi-NCR MegalopolisCities of Delhi, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Meerut and Noida46,000,000
Mumbai Megalopolis[14] Cities of Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai, Kalyan-Dombivali, Vasai-Virar, Panvel26,000,000

Southwest Asia

CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation estimate
Greater TehranTehran and Alborz provinces expanding into Mazandaran, Qazvin, and Qom15,000,000
Greater IstanbulCities of Istanbul and Bursa; Gebze, Yalova, Kocaeli, and Adapazarı[15] [16] 22,376,297[17]

Europe

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.

MegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation 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

North America

width=100CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation estimate
Quebec City–Windsor CorridorHamilton, Kingston, Kitchener, London, Markham, Mississauga, Montreal, Oshawa, Ottawa, Peterborough, Quebec City, Richmond Hill, Toronto, Trois-Rivières, Vaughan, Waterloo Windsor18,400,000
CascadiaCanada: Abbotsford, Surrey, Vancouver (BC), Victoria
United States: Bellevue, Eugene, Everett, Portland (OR), Salem, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane, Tri-Cities, Vancouver (WA)
8,400,000
Great LakesCanada: 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]
BajíoGuadalajara, León, Querétaro, Aguascalientes, Celaya, Irapuato, San Juan del Río, Salamanca11,000,000
Mexico City megalopolisMexico City, Puebla, Cuernavaca, Toluca, Pachuca, Tula, Tlaxcala, Cuautla, Tulancingo30,800,000
North East Corridor50,000,000[24]
Southern CaliforniaMexico: Tijuana

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

24,400,000

South America

CountryMegalopolisMajor cities and areasPopulation estimate
Greater Buenos AiresBuenos Aires
Merlo, Moreno; Quilmes; Florencio Varela, La Matanza
14,967,000[25]
Eixo Goiânia-Anápolis-BrasíliaGreater Goiânia and Federal District (Brazil)8,000,000
Greater Belo HorizonteBelo Horizonte and Contagem5,800,000
Greater CuritibaCuritiba and São José dos Pinhais3,500,000
Greater Porto AlegrePorto Alegre and Canoas4,200,000
Greater Rio de JaneiroRio de Janeiro, Baixada Fluminense, and Niterói-São Gonçalo13,000,000
Recife metropolitan areaRecife and Jaboatão dos Guararapes3,900,000
Rio de Janeiro–São Paulo MegalopolisSão Paulo Macrometropolis and Greater Rio de Janeiro51,500,000
São Paulo MacrometropolisSão Paulo, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Sorocaba, Jundiaí, Piracicaba, Santos34,500,000
Salvador metropolitan areaSalvador and Camaçari3,900,000
Bogota National Capital MetropolisBogotá, Soacha, Facatativá, Chía, Tunja, Fusagasugá, Zipaquirá, Madrid, Funza, Cajicá, Ubaté, Sibaté, Guaduas, Villa de Leyva and Tocancipá17,000,000
Golden TriangleBogotá, Soacha, Medellín, Cali, Cartago, Tuluá, Buga, Bello, Manizales, Armenia, Pereira, Dosquebradas, Ibagué, Girardot, El Espinal and Fusagasugá29,500,000
Northeast Atlantic RegionBarranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, Ciénaga, Malambo, Baranoa and Turbaco6,000,000
Pacific BeltMedellín, Cali, Bello, Pereira, Manizales, Armenia, Itagüí, Yumbo, Tuluá, Cartago, Buga and Palmira9,000,000
Santander BeltBucaramanga, Floridablanca, Girón, Piedecuesta, Cúcuta, Ocaña, Villa del Rosario and Pamplona3,000,000
Santiago-ValparaísoSantiago, Valparaíso-Viña del Mar and Rancagua8,000,000
Lima-Callao MegalopolisLima and Callao12,523,796
Caracas-ValenciaCaracas, Valencia, and Maracay9,000,000
Maracaibo Lake NarrowsMaracaibo, Cabimas and Ciudad Ojeda3,500,000

Notes and References

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  2. Web site: Egypt in Figures-Census 2019 - 201937112036_2019 سكان.pdf .
  3. Web site: KNBS . https://web.archive.org/web/20230611224813/http://www.knbs.or.ke/ . 2023-06-11 . 2023-06-14 . KNBS.
  4. Web site: ::Gauteng on Track to Global City-Region:: . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061007183353/http://www.joburg.org.za/2006/aug/aug30_globalcity.stm . 2006-10-07 . 2007-01-01.
  5. Web site: :: Working on Gauteng's Global City Plans :: . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060924035139/http://www.joburg.org.za/2006/july/jul20_cityregion.stm . 2006-09-24 . 2007-01-01.
  6. Web site: South Africa: Provinces and Major Urban Areas – Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information . 2023-06-14 . www.citypopulation.de.
  7. Web site: World Urbanization Prospects – Population Division – United Nations . 2022-11-18 .
  8. United Nations (March 12, 2017). "The World's Cities in 2016" (PDF). United Nations
  9. http://www.stat.go.jp/data/nenkan/back60/zuhyou/y0206000.xls Japan Statistics Bureau
  10. Web site: 2015 Population Census . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20160825120347/http://www.stat.go.jp/english/data/kokusei/2015/summary.htm . August 25, 2016 . August 13, 2016 . Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications . mdy-all.
  11. https://soas.ac.uk/taiwanstudies/eats/eats2008/file43175.pdf From Urban Corridor to Megalopolis: The “Metropolization” of Taiwan
  12. Web site: Indonesia: Administrative Division . Citypopulation.de.
  13. Web site: Chennai to become a megapolis, State government gives approval . 2021-05-10 . The New Indian Express. 4 July 2017 .
  14. Web site: 2001-09-03 . Mumbai set to become next Megalopolis . 2019-08-21 . The Times of India.
  15. News: February 28, 2019 . The Real Powerhouses That Drive the World's Economy . Bloomberg.com . 2021-08-21.
  16. Adler . Patrick . Florida . Richard . Hartt . Maxwell . 2020 . Mega Regions and Pandemics . Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie . en . 111 . 3 . 465–481 . 10.1111/tesg.12449 . 1467-9663 . 7361226 . 32834149.
  17. Web site: 6 February 2024 . TÜİK Kurumsal . 2024-02-07 . data.tuik.gov.tr.
  18. Web site: Ina Schmidt . The European Blue Banana . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141006102312/http://www.eu-partner.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9%3Athe-blue-banana&catid=1%3Anews&Itemid=16 . 6 October 2014 . 5 October 2014.
  19. Book: Pedrazzini . Luisa . From Territorial Cohesion to the New Regionalized Europe . Akiyama . Renata Satiko . 2011 . Maggioli Editore . 9788838760341 . 5 October 2014.
  20. Web site: STRING megaregion . 2023-06-14 . stringmegaregion . STRING.
  21. Web site: Lois-González . Rubén C. . 7 October 2004 . A Model of Spanish-portuguese Urban Growth: the Atlantic Axis . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20171208070726/https://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-E1MX7TB4/5207a7d0-12a5-4538-89aa-0a15e948b888/PDF . 8 December 2017 . 7 December 2017 . Universidad de Santiago de Compostela . 7(287) . dmy-all.
  22. Web site: Eixo Atlántico . eixoatlantico.
  23. Web site: What is the Great Lakes Megalopolis?. February 2019 . 2024-03-23.
  24. Web site: Fall 2021 . Megalopolis 2021 . Census.gov.
  25. Web site: 2019 . World Urbanization Prospects – Population Division . 2021-10-29 . United Nations .