1<html> 2 3<head> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" 5content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 6<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> 7<title>The World's 4000 Largest Cities</title> 8</head> 9 10<body background="background.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 11 12<pre><font size="6" face="Verdana"><strong><u>THE WORLD'S 4000 LARGEST URBAN AREAS 13<img src="biggest.gif" width="761" height="360"></u></strong></font></pre> 14 15<table border="0" width="790"> 16 <tr> 17 <td><font face="Verdana">This page is an outgrowth of the 18 Top 150 Cities list from the previous incarnation of the 19 page. There are actually 4,518 cities in the database so 20 as to include small capitals and other tiny, but 21 important locales. The populations below are 2002 <u>estimates</u> 22 only, not official census data. The data is heavily 23 adapted and re-organized from the huge lists on </font><a 24 href="http://www.world-gazetteer.com/home.htm"><font 25 face="Verdana">world-gazetteer.com</font></a><font 26 face="Verdana">, </font><a 27 href="http://www.citypopulation.de/"><font face="Verdana">citypopulation.de</font></a><font 28 face="Verdana">, and other printed almanacs and sources 29 when errors were found. These are fantastic resources 30 with info on many thousands more cities than will be 31 included in this listing. </font><p><font face="Verdana">I 32 don't wish to dispute the numbers here. Population counts 33 of urban cores are notoriously variable depending on how 34 and where one quits calling a cluster of cities a 35 metropolis. So if you find your city is lower than you 36 think it should be, please just take it with a grain of 37 salt. A "Y" in the Photo column means I have a 38 photo of the place in the city listings. Eventually I'll 39 hyperlink everything in the top 500 so a click on the 40 "Y" will take you to the most representative 41 photo I have of the place.</font></p> 42 <p><font face="Verdana">You can </font><a 43 href="http://www.worldcityphotos.org/topcities/largest-1to4518.txt"><font 44 face="Verdana"><strong>download all 4,518 at once (A 309 45 kb plain text file)</strong></font></a><font 46 face="Verdana"> or dive right in to the following 47 breakdowns:</font></p> 48 <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>HTML</u></strong><br> 49 The top 20 (with small photos)<br> 50 The top 100 (Urban areas down to 3.2 mil ppl)<br> 51 The top 500 (Urban areas down to 0.8 mil ppl</font></p> 52 <p><font face="Verdana"><strong><u>PLAIN TEXT</u></strong><br> 53 Urban areas with over 1.0 mil people<br> 54 Urban areas with 500,000 - 1.0 mil people<br> 55 Urban areas with 100,000 - 500,000 people<br> 56 Urban areas with 50,000 - 100,000 people<br> 57 Important cities with under 50,000 people</font></p> 58 </td> 59 </tr> 60</table> 61 62 63</body> 64</html>
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