Nice News - Jakarta — Indonesia’s vibrant, multicultural capital — is now the largest city in the world. The metropolis of nearly 42 million residents
has overtaken the longtime title-holder Tokyo, with its population of
33 million, according to a new United Nations report. The Japanese
capital now ranks third, with Dhaka, Bangladesh, coming in second with a
population of almost 37 million.
The U.N.’s 2025 World Urbanization Prospects report
underscores a major shift in global population trends over the past
several years. In 2018, the last year the organization updated the
report, Jakarta clocked in at 33rd. Even more strikingly, the percentage of the world’s population residing in cities has jumped from 20% in 1950 to 45% today.
And the number of megacities, which the U.N. defines as those with 10
million or more residents, has quadrupled from eight in 1975 to 33. More
than half of these are in Asia, with Cairo, Egypt, being the only
non-Asian metropolis among the top 10 most densely inhabited locales.
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