![]() Statista (opens in new tab), the German data aggregator, also names Tokyo as the city with the largest population, but it puts the figure at around 39,105,000. However, other sources have reached different conclusions in terms of city populations. ![]() With an estimated population of 37,274,000, according to World Population Review (opens in new tab), Tokyo has over 5 million more residents than second-placed Delhi, India, which is home to approximately 32,065,760 people (opens in new tab). When it comes to the number of human inhabitants, no other city comes close to Tokyo, the capital of Japan. According to World Population Review (opens in new tab), New York, which has a population of 8,177,020 (as of 2022) is currently the 45th most populous city in the world, sandwiched between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (opens in new tab) (8,419,566) in 44th and Hangzhou, China (opens in new tab) (8,044,878) in 46th. In terms of population, however, New York City is nowhere near the top of the list. This discrepancy is, according to Ward, because there are no concrete "norms and understandings" around how to determine a city's boundaries. According to WorldAtlas, New York City occupies a total of 3,353 square miles (8,683 square km), while World Population Review lists the city as covering 4,669 square miles (12,093 square km). However, the two sources have different interpretations of the city's size. Various sources have set out to establish the largest city in the world by area, and according to WorldAtlas (opens in new tab) and World Population Review (opens in new tab), New York City comes out on top. Meanwhile, Ngerulmud, the capital of the Republic of Palau in the western Pacific, has just 400 residents, but at 180 square miles (466 square kilometers), has a larger area than Vatican City, and is regarded as the least-populous capital city in the world (opens in new tab). Vatican City, for example, is the world's smallest independent country and is tiny in terms of its population (just 453 people) and area (0.19 square mile, or 0.49 square kilometer). And neither size nor population are always a factor. "What constitutes a 'city' varies from one country to another," Ward noted. Measuring the size of a city is difficult in part because there is no universally accepted way of defining what a city is, or where one begins and ends. In this regard, Ward said, one could claim "Paris, London or New York" to be the "biggest." This is, however, open to individual interpretation. Ward also suggested a possible third option: assessing a city's cultural impact on the rest of the world. (Image credit: Yongyuan Dai via Getty Images) Tokyo is the most populated city in the world.
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