Table 5.2
Megacities based on LandScan 2007 and the history of megacities based on UN (2018) annual population of urban agglomerations with 300,000 or
more inhabitants
Land Scan 2007 (to arrange in descending
order of population in each region)
North
America
and
Oceania
Monsoon Asia
Latin America
Mid-latitude
arid region
Upper
Eurasia
SubSaharan
Africa
New York,
Los
Angeles
Tokyo, Jakarta, Seoul,
Mumbai,
Manila,
Kolkata,
Osaka, Shanghai,
Dhaka
Sao Paulo,
Mexico City,
Buenos Aires
Delhi, Cairo Moscow
Cities from UN (2018) Annual Population of Urban Agglomerations with
300,000 or more inhabitants
1930 1
New York
1950
1 Tokyo
1960
2 Osaka
1975
1 Mexico City
1980
2 Sao Paulo
1985 2 Los
Angeles
3 Mumbai,
4 Kolkata
3 Buenos Aires
1990
5 Seoul〜until
1995
1995
6 Shanghai
4 Rio de Janeiro 1 Cairo,
2 Delhi
2000
6 Dhaka
3 Beijing
1
Moscow
2005
7 Manila
4 Karachi,
5 Istanbul
2 Paris
2010
8 Chongqing, 9 Shenzen,
10 Guangzhou
6 Tenjin
1 Lagos
2015
11 Bangalore, 12 Jakarta
7 Lahore
2
Kinshasa
2020
13 Chennai, 14 Bangkok
8 Hyderabad
84
N. Fukami