This is a leet o the maist populous ceeties in the warld defined accordin tae a concept o ceety proper (an urban locality wioot its suburbs). A ceety proper is a locality defined accordin tae legal or poleetical boundaries an an admeenistratively recognised urban status that is uisually characterized bi some fairm o local govrenment.[1][2][3]
"Warld Urbanization Prospects", a Unitit Naitions publication, defines the population o a ceety proper as "the population livin within the admeenistrative boundaries o a ceety."[4] The beuk continues tae say that "ceety proper as defined bi admeenistrative boundaries mey nae include suburban auries whur an important proportion o the population wirkin or studyin in the ceety lives."
The term ceety can tak on mony meanins in different pairts o the warld. For the purposes o this leet, the definition o a ceety as a primarily urban locality is uised. This leet enumerates the populations o some o the warld's lairgest ceeties, the boundaries o which mey or mey nae correspond tae those o municipalities. The populations leetit are for the admeenistratively defined ceety an nae for the urban aurie nor the metropolitan aurie. Statistical definitions for each ceety, approximate surface aurie, an population density are an aa indicatit.
↑The ceety proper based on the destricts o Huangpu, Xuhui, Changning, Jing'an, Putuo, Zhabei, Hongkou an Yangpu considered "core destricts"-the aulder pairt (Puxi) + Inner suburbs (destricts): Jiading, Baoshan, Minhang an Pudong New Aurie.
↑Beijing is ane o the fower direct-controlled municipalities o Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, an is dividit intae 14 destricts an 2 coonties. The ceety proper based on the destricts o Dongcheng an Xicheng considered "core destricts" - the aulder pairt + Inner suburbs (destricts): Chaoyang, Haidian, Fengtai an Shijingshan.
↑The Lagos State is made up o 20 destricts (3568 square kilometers). The Metropolitan Lagos (Ceety proper) is made up o 16 destricts: Agege; Ajeromi-Ifelodun; Alimosho; Amuwo-Odofin; Apapa; Eti-Osa; Ifako-Ijaye; Ikeja; Kosofe; Lagos Island; Lagos Mainland; Mushin; Ojo; Oshodi-Isolo; Shomolu; Surulere (1171 square kilometres).
↑The surface o the Metropolitan Lagos is 1171 square kilometres, but 171 square kilometres is watter (lagoon).
↑The ceety, considered caipital o Istanbul Province, is admeenistered bi the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), which owersees the thirty-nine destricts o the ceety-province (thirty-sax urban destricts an three rural destricts).
↑Accordin tae the new Metropolitan Municipal Law (No.5216/2004-5), Jurisdiction o Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM), the ceety aurie is 5343.02 square kilometers. Destricts: Çatalca, Silivri an Şile (tot aurie 3153.23 square kilometers) are almaist entirely rural.
↑Guangzhou Ceety is a sub-provincial ceety an it is dividit intae 10 destricts an 2 Coonty-level ceeties. Guangzhou is further dividit intae 131 Subdestricts an 38 Touns. The ceety proper (destricts): Yuexiu, Liwan, Haizhu, Tianhe, Baiyun, Huangpu, Panyu, Huadu an Industrial Destricts - Nansha, Luogang.
↑Mumbai Ceety consists o twa distinct regions: Mumbai Ceety destrict (Island Ceety) an Mumbai Suburban destrict (Wastren Suburban an Eastren Suburban), grouped intae 24 wards, unner the admeenistration o Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The remainin aurie belangs tae Defence, Mumbai Port Trust, Atomic Energy Commission an Borivali Naitional Pairk, which are oot o the jurisdiction o the BMC.
↑Administratively, the Municipality o São Paulo is dividit intae 31 subprefecturs, each in turn dividit intae 96 destricts. Locally, deestricts mey contain ane or mair neighborhoods (bairros). The ceety o São Paulo recognizes ten geographical auries uised tae reference locations in the ceety.
↑The province o Lima is dividit intae fowerty three "destricts o Lima" which are admeenistered bi the Metropolitan Municipality o Lima. The ceety proper (urban aurie) o Lima is generally considered tae be formed bi thirty o these destricts. The remainin thirteen destricts consist o maistly rural an sparsely populatit desert an moontainous auries. The Metropolitan Municipality o Callao is dividit intae sax destricts.
↑The ceeties o Lima an Callao forms a single ceety "continues". Callao is juist a ceety "admeenistrative". Economically an geographically is a destrict o the Metropolitan Municipality o Lima.
↑The province o Kinshasa is dividit intae twenty-fower destricts, admeenistered bi the Metropolitan Municipality o Kinshasa. But the destricts (communes) o Maluku an Nsele (N'Sele) are rural an nae pairt o the ceety proper. The ceety proper (urban area) o Kinshasa is generally considered tae be formed bi twenty-twa "communes".
↑Accordin tae the Constitution o Democratic Republic o the Congo, the province o Kinshasa covers 9965.21 km2. Maluku an N'Sele (tot area 8847.59 km2) are entirely rural, wi a very very law density.
↑Based on the destricts o Heping, Hexi, Hebei, Nankai, Hedong, Hongqiao, Jinnan, Dongli, Xiqing, Beichen an Binhai New Aurie, considered "core destricts". Stairtin frae November 2009, Binhai New Aurie wis consolidatit intae a district, an the umwhile subordinate destricts o Tanggu, Hangu an Dagang wur abolished. Binhai is pairt o the Bohai Economic Rim an is expectit tae acome anither asset tae regional development, follaein the rise o Shenzhen Special Economic Zone an Shanghai Pudong New Aurie. It is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) o the PRC, meanin experimental reforms are takin place here.
↑In Aprile 2011, Prime Meenister Essam Sharaf abolished the Helwan Govrenorate an reincorporatit its territory intae the Cairo Govrenorate. The tot aurie o the govrenorate is 3085.1 square kilometers, the ceety aurie is 453 square kilometers, but the Egyptian govrenment considered the Cairo Govrenorate is that a whole ceety an aw statistics relate tae the "govrenorate".
↑Dhaka Ceety Corporation wis established as the Dhaka Municipality on August 1, 1864. The Awami League govrenment on 29 November 2011 dissolved the Dhaka Ceety Corporation bi the Local Govrenment (Ceety Corporation) Amendment Bill 2011 passed bi the Pairlament o Bangladesh efter bein placed in the Pairlament on November 23. The ceety corporation will be split intae twa corporations, North an Sooth. The municipal aurie o Dhaka ceety is unner the jurisdiction o the Dhaka Ceety Corporation (North - Sooth) an the municipal aurie is dividit intae 92 wards.
↑Bangkok is subdividit intae 50 destricts (khet เขต, an aa sometimes wrangly cried amphoe อำเภอ as in the ither provinces, derived frae Pali khetta, cognate tae Sanskrit kṣetra), which are further subdividit intae 169 khwaeng แขวง, roughly equivalent tae tambon ตำบล in the ither provinces.
↑The destrict o Sumapaz is completely rural (no ceety services) an is nae pairt o the ceety proper. The aurie wis an important pilgrimage arheoligic steid for the Muisca indigenous fowks in pre-Columbian times an for veesitin the Sumapaz Naitional Pairk. The destrict o Sumapaz represents 0.1% o the population (48% "aurie") o Bogotá Municipality.
↑The province o Baghdad is dividit intae nine destrict, admeenistered bi the Metropolitan Municipality o Baghdad. The destricts are distributit intae 89 Neighborhuid Cooncils.
↑Thare are mony disputes aboot Baghdad ceety (urban) aurie. The ceety o Baghdad haes the special status o provincial. The demographic information reportit tae the ceety proper are non-existent or are the estimates, projections inconclusive. The Metropolitan Municipality o Baghdad is a ceety "federal destrict - province". Is seemilar tae the case o Cairo Govrenorate.
↑The sub-provincial ceety o Wuhan haes direct jurisdiction ower 13 destricts (aicht urban/five rural). The ceety proper (urban) based on the destricts o Jiang'an, Jianghan, Qiaokou, Hanyang, Wuchang an Qingshan considered "core destricts" + Inner suburbs (destricts): Hongshan, Dongxihu.
↑The province o Santiago is dividit intae thirty-twa destricts, admeenistered bi the Metropolitan Municipality o Santiago. But the destrict o Lo Barnechea is rural (moontains) an is nae pairt o the ceety proper. The ceety proper (urban aurie) o Santiago is generally considered tae be formed bi thirty-ane destricts (Province o Santiago), the destrict o Puente Alto (Province o Cordillera), an the destrict o San Bernardo (Province o Maipo).
↑Riyadh is dividit intae 15 branch municipalities, in addeetion tae the Diplomatic Quarter. Each branch municipality in turn contains several districts, amoontin tae ower 130 in tot, tho some destricts are dividit atween mair nor ane branch municipality. The branch municipalities are Al-Shemaysi, Irqah, Al-Ma'athar, Al-Olayya, Al-Aziziyya, Al-Malaz, Al-Selayy, Nemar, Al-Neseem, Al-Shifa, Al-'Urayja, Al-Bat'ha, Al-Ha'ir, Al-Rawdha, an Al-Shimal ("the North").
↑Arriyadh Development Authority (Investment_Arriyadh_2013)
↑Luanda is a ceety-province o Angola. In 2011 Luanda Province wis subdividit intae seiven municipalities: Belas, Cacuaco, Cazenga, Ícolo e Bengo, Luanda, Quiçama an Viana, admeenistered bi the Metropolitan Municipality o Luanda (18825.28 square kilometres). These are again subdividit intae 47 Communes (Comunas). The ceety proper o Luanda is formed bi five destricts: Belas, Viana, Luanda, Cazenga an Cacuaco.
↑Yangon is admeenistered bi the Yangon Ceety Development Committee (YCDC). The ceety proper is dividit intae fower destricts: Wastren Destrict, Eastren Destrict, Soothren Destrict an Northren Destrict. The destricts combined hae a tot o 33 tounships.
↑Chennai ceety is govrened bi the Chennai Corporation, dividin intae three regions - fifteen destricts: North (Tiruvottiyur, Manali, Madhavaram, Tondiarpet an Royapuram), Sooth (Valasaravakkam, Alandur, Adyar, Perungudi an Sholinganallur) an Central (Thiru-Vi-Ka Nagar, Ambattur, Anna Nagar, Teynampet an Kodambakkam), which covers 200 wards. O the tot land aurie, reserved forests cover 2.71 km2 an is concentratit in an aroond the Guindy Naitional Pairk region, ane o the few naitional pairks in the warld locatit within a ceety.
↑The ceety o Alexandria haes an aurie o approximately 400 square kilometres. Egyptian offeecials provides information at govrenorate level. In the case o "ceety proper" provides information at intervals o mony years. It is impossible tae assess the population (offeecial) reportit in the ceety proper aurie.
↑Chongqing is the lairgest o the fower direct-controlled municipalities o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae. The municipality is dividit intae 38 subdiveesions (3 wur abolished in 1997, an Wansheng an Shuangqiao destricts wur abolished in October 2011), consistin o 19 destricts, 15 coonties, an 4 autonomous coonties. The ceety proper based on the destricts o Yuzhong, Dadukou, Jiangbei, Shapingba, Jiulongpo, Nan'an considered "Central Chongqing (重庆市中心)".
↑The sub-provincial ceety o Xi'an haes direct jurisdiction ower 9 destricts (区 qu) an 4 coonties (县 xian). The ceety proper based on the destricts o Xīnchéng, Bēilín an Liánhú considered "core destricts" + Inner suburbs (destricts): Bàqiáo, Wèiyāng an Yàntǎ.
↑Dar es Salaam is dividit intae three destricts: Ilala, Kinondoni, an Temeke. Aw three are govrened as municipal cooncils, an so aw o the ceety's suburbs or wards are affiliated wi them.
↑The province o Ankara is dividit intae twenty five destricts, admeenistered bi the Metropolitan Municipality o Ankara. The ceety proper (urban aurie) o Ankara is generally considered tae be formed bi aicht destricts (Sincan, Yenimahalle, Etimesgut, Keçiören, Pursaklar, Altındağ, Mamak, Çankaya). In some criteria, Gölbaşı destrict is pairt o the ceety, but the deestrict o Gölbaşı is rural.
↑The ceety proper based on the destricts o Gūsū, Wúzhōng, Sūzhōu Gōngyèyuán (Industrial Park), Xiàngchéng and Sūzhōu Gāo Xīnjìshù Chǎnyè Kāifāqū (New Destrict)
↑Aw destricts that are leetit as bein in Greater Cairo an are contiguous; namely Ad-Duqī, Al-Ahrām; Al-'Ajūzah; Al-Badrashayn; Al-Ḥawāmidiyah; Al-Jīzah; Al-Jīzah; Al-'Umrāniyah; Al-Warrāq; Awsīm; Būlāq al-Dakrūr; Imbābah; Kirdāsah.
↑ ab"杭州市 2010年国民经济和社会发展统计公报" (in Simplified Chinese). Hangzhou Municipal Statistic Bureau. 24 Februar 2011. Archived frae the original on 3 September 2011. Retrieved 15 September 2011.CS1 maint: unrecognised leid (link)
↑The prefectur-level ceety o Hefei admeenisters 9 coonty-level diveesions, includin 4 destricts, 1 Coonty-ceety an 4 coonties. The ceety proper based on the destricts o Luyang, Yaohai, Shushan an Baohe considered "core destricts".