| # | Name | Population |
| 1 | Piura, region of Peru | 1,856,809 |
| 2 | Wien, capital of and state in Austria | 1,888,776 |
| 3 | Blantyre, city in Malawi | 1,895,973 |
| 4 | Bucharest, capital and largest city of Romania | 1,929,000 |
| 5 | Curitiba, capital of the Brazilian state of Paraná | 1,948,626 |
| 6 | Kocaeli, province of Turkey | 1,953,035 |
| 7 | Sapporo, city on Hokkaido, Japan | 1,958,756 |
| 8 | Quito, capital of Ecuador | 2,011,388 |
| 9 | Minsk, capital and largest city of Belarus | 2,020,600 |
| 10 | Perth, capital city of Western Australia, Australia | 2,059,484 |
| 11 | Mendoza, province of Argentina | 2,086,000 |
| 12 | Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia | 2,129,371 |
| 13 | Paris, capital and largest city of France | 2,187,526 |
| 14 | Manaus, city in Amazonas federated state, Brazil | 2,219,580 |
| 15 | Adana, city in Turkey | 2,220,125 |
| 16 | Konya, city in Turkey | 2,232,374 |
| 17 | Baku, capital of Azerbaijan | 2,262,600 |
| 18 | Accra, capital city of Ghana | 2,270,000 |
| 19 | Nagoya, city in Aichi prefecture, Japan | 2,325,918 |
| 20 | Brisbane, capital city of Queensland, Australia | 2,360,241 |
| 21 | Bandung, city in Indonesia | 2,394,873 |
| 22 | Yaounde, capital of Cameroon | 2,440,462 |
| 23 | Lusaka, capital of Zambia | 2,467,563 |
| 24 | Cali, Capital of the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca | 2,471,474 |
| 25 | Luanda, capital of Angola | 2,487,444 |
| 26 | Taegu, city in Yeongnam region, South Korea | 2,518,467 |
| 27 | Belo Horizonte, capital city of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil | 2,521,564 |
| 28 | Tashkent, capital of Uzbekistan | 2,522,800 |
| 29 | Medellin, city in Colombia, capital of Colombian department Antioquia | 2,529,403 |
| 30 | Perm , krai and federal subject in Volga Federal District, Russia | 2,599,301 |
| 31 | Wa, state of Australia | 2,656,156 |
| 32 | Fortaleza, city in Northeastern Brazil, state capital of Ceará | 2,686,612 |
| 33 | Taipei, Capital of Taiwan | 2,692,118 |
| 34 | Osaka, designated city in Kansai, Japan | 2,740,202 |
| 35 | Pyongyang, capital of North Korea | 2,863,000 |
| 36 | La Paz, de facto capital city of Bolivia | 2,867,504 |
| 37 | Rome, capital and largest city of Italy | 2,872,800 |
| 38 | Salvador, city in the state of Bahia, Brazil | 2,886,698 |
| 39 | Sanaa, capital city of Yemen | 2,957,000 |
| 40 | Kiev, capital and the largest city of Ukraine | 2,967,000 |
| 41 | Ta`izz, governorate of Yemen | 2,984,000 |
| 42 | Brasilia, capital city of Brazil | 3,015,268 |
| 43 | Addis Ababa, capital city of Ethiopia | 3,041,002 |
| 44 | Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang, China | 3,112,559 |
| 45 | Dnipropetrovs k, administrative division (oblast) in central Ukraine | 3,231,140 |
| 46 | Madrid, capital and largest city of Spain | 3,266,126 |
| 47 | Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh, India | 3,382,000 |
| 48 | Algiers, capital city of Algeria | 3,415,811 |
| 49 | Pusan, metropolitan city of South Korea | 3,453,198 |
| 50 | Casablanca, city in Morocco | 3,499,000 |
| 51 | Berlin, federal state, capital and largest city of Germany | 3,644,826 |
| 52 | Yokohama, designated city in Kanagawa prefecture, Japan | 3,748,781 |
| 53 | Amman, capital of Jordan | 4,007,526 |
| 54 | Johannesburg, city in South Africa | 4,434,827 |
| 55 | Kolkata, capital of West Bengal, India | 4,496,694 |
| 56 | Melbourne, capital city of Victoria, Australia | 4,529,500 |
| 57 | Dar es Salaam, city in Tanzania | 4,715,000 |
| 58 | Sydney, capital city of New South Wales, Australia | 4,840,600 |
| 59 | Surabaya, city in East Java Province, Indonesia | 4,975,000 |
| 60 | Abidjan, city and the former official capital of Ivory Coast | 4,980,000 |
| 61 | Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, China | 5,015,000 |
| 62 | Fuzhou, capital city of Fujian province, China | 5,245,000 |
| 63 | Khartoum, capital city of Sudan | 5,345,000 |
| 64 | Saint Petersburg, federal city in and former capital of Russia | 5,398,064 |
| 65 | Rangoon, former capital of Myanmar (Burma) and the current capital of Yangon Region | 5,430,000 |
| 66 | Ankara, capital of Turkey | 5,503,985 |
| 67 | Nairobi, capital city of Kenya | 5,545,000 |
| 68 | Xi an, capital of Shaanxi Province, China | 5,740,000 |
| 69 | Santiago, capital city of Chile | 6,257,516 |
| 70 | Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province in Eastern China | 6,320,000 |
| 71 | Rio de Janeiro, city of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 6,747,815 |
| 72 | Baghdad, capital city of Iraq | 6,960,000 |
| 73 | Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, China | 7,005,000 |
| 74 | Hong Kong, special administrative region of China | 7,500,700 |
| 75 | Kuala Lumpur, capital of Malaysia | 7,590,000 |
| 76 | Riyadh, capital of Saudi Arabia | 7,676,655 |
| 77 | Chongqing, municipality of China | 7,739,000 |
| 78 | Bogota, capital city of Colombia | 7,743,955 |
| 79 | Hanoi, capital of Vietnam | 7,785,000 |
| 80 | Shenyang, capital of Liaoning Province, China | 7,935,000 |
| 81 | Tehran, capital of Iran | 8,846,782 |
| 82 | London, capital and largest city of the United Kingdom | 8,908,081 |
| 83 | Mexico City, capital city of Mexico | 8,918,653 |
| 84 | Cairo, capital city of Egypt | 9,293,612 |
| 85 | Hyderabad, city in Hyderabad district, Telangana, India | 9,305,000 |
| 86 | Seoul, capital of South Korea | 9,806,538 |
| 87 | Madras, capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu | 10,265,000 |
| 88 | Jakarta, capital and province of Indonesia, on island of Java | 10,348,348 |
| 89 | Ho Chi Minh City, city of Vietnam | 10,380,000 |
| 90 | Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province, China | 11,050,000 |
| 91 | Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | 11,855,000 |
| 92 | Wuhan, capital city of Hubei Province, China | 11,895,000 |
| 93 | Sao Paulo, largest city in Brazil | 12,325,232 |
| 94 | Moscow, capital and most populous city of Russia | 12,692,466 |
| 95 | Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong Province, China | 14,043,500 |
| 96 | Istanbul, largest city in Turkey | 15,067,724 |
| 97 | Bombay, capital city and district in Maharashtra, India | 15,414,288 |
| 98 | Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh | 16,800,000 |
| 99 | Beijing, capital of China | 21,710,000 |
| 100 | Shanghai, municipality of China | 23,390,000 |