List of largest cities by area
This is a list of the largest cities and municipalities by area (including surface water) in square kilometres.
Urban areas
This table shows all cities or conurbations with a total urbanised area of at least 5,000 km2, according to Demographia's annual World Urban Areas[1] publication, that uses a consistent methodology between countries to provide comparable population and area figures.
| Urban area | Country | Built-up land area (km2) |
Population | Urban population density (per km2) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York City |  United States |
12,093 | 20,870,000 | 1,700 |
| Boston-Providence | United States |
9,538 | 7,302,000 | 727 |
| Tokyo-Yokohama |  Japan |
8,230 | 37,977,000 | 4,614 |
| Atlanta | United States |
7,400 | 5,361,000 | 633 |
| Chicago | United States |
7,006 | 9,014,000 | 1,288 |
| Los Angeles | United States |
6,351 | 15,402,000 | 2,310 |
| Moscow |  Russia |
5,891 | 17,125,000 | 2,908 |
| Washington, D.C.-Baltimore | United States |
5,500 | 7,518,000 | 1,254 |
| Philadelphia | United States |
5,430 | 5,684,000 | 1,022 |
| Dallas-Fort Worth | United States |
5,279 | 6,830,000 | 1,072 |
Municipalities
This table shows all municipalities with a total area of at least 20,000 km2. Not all of these are cities, and in many cases most of the area is uninhabited.
| Name of municipality |
Country | Total area (city proper) (km2) |
Land area (km2) |
Water area (km2) |
Urban area (km2) |
Rural area (km2) |
Metropolitan area (km2) |
Population |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sermersooq |  Greenland |
531,900 | 23,123 | |||||
| Avannaata | Greenland |
522,700 | 10,726 | |||||
| Nagqu |  China |
450,537 | 462,381 | |||||
| Ngari Prefecture | China |
304,683 | 69,000 | |||||
| Hulunbuir | China |
263,953 | 2,549,278 | |||||
| Jiuquan | China |
191,342 | 1,095,947 | |||||
| Shigatse | China |
182,000 | 703,292 | |||||
| Lhasa | China |
29,274 | ||||||
| Nyingchi | China |
116,175 | ||||||
| Shannan | China |
79,700 | ||||||
| Altamira |  Brazil |
159,534 | 109,938 | |||||
| Barcelos, Amazonas | Brazil |
122,475 | 25,948 | |||||
| Qeqqata | Greenland |
115,500 | 9,378 | |||||
| Chamdo | China |
110,154 | 657,505 | |||||
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100,000 | 30,059 | |||||
| Ngaanyatjarraku | Australia |
160,732.9 | ||||||
| Qeqertalik | Greenland |
62,400 | 6,340 | |||||
| Harbin | China |
53,068 | 10,640,000 | |||||
| Mount Isa | Australia |
43,348 | 18,671 | |||||
| Chongqing | China |
82,403 | 30,484,300 | |||||
| Leonara | Australia |
32,189 | 556 | |||||
| Kujalleq | Greenland |
32,000 | 6,439 | |||||
| Guilin | China |
27,808 | 1,134,393 | |||||
| Baotou | China |
27,767 | 2,190,000 | |||||
| Changchun | China |
24,734 | 4,426,000 | |||||
| Baoding | China |
22,191 | 1,976,000 | |||||
| Nanning | China |
22,188 | 3,860,000 | |||||
| Kunming | China |
21,502 | 4,443,000 |
References
- "Demographia World Urban Areas 16th Annual Edition 2020.06" (PDF). Demographia. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- "The largest cities in the world by land area, population and density". CityMayors.com. Retrieved 2018-03-05.
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