Jakarta is now the world's largest city dwarfing Australia's entire population
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For decades Tokyo held the title of the most populous city on the planet. Yet the Indonesian and Bangladeshi capitals have overtaken the Japanese megacity.

In short:

Asia is home to nine of the world’s 10 most populous cities in 2025, according to the United Nations.

A new report identifies Jakarta, with 42 million residents, as having the largest population globally.

Tokyo had long held the title as the world’s largest city, but its population growth has stagnated.

  • mech@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    I went down a Wikipedia rabbit hole about the world’s biggest cities and a lot of it is down to how city limits are defined. Which is different in every country.
    For example, the average population density of the city of Chongqing, as defined by the Chinese government, is lower than that of 34 countries.