As of January 2024, Guangzhou had the largest metropolitan population in the Asia-Pacific region, with approximately 70.1 million inhabitants. Tokyo had the second-largest metropolitan population of around 41 million inhabitants. There were a total of 28 megacities with a population of over 10 million inhabitants in the Asia-Pacific region as of January 2024.
Number of inhabitants in megacities in the Asia-Pacific region in 2024
(in millions)
* Administrative area including Dongguan, Foshan, Huizhou, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, and Zhongshan.
The source states the following: "Urban agglomerations include a central city and neighboring places, mostly linked by (more or less) continuously built-up areas. Some agglomerations have more than one central city."
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