200 most exciting cities?
I am a big city addict. I feel truly alive when I am in a big city. I love their idea density, their fast pace, and their excellence in coffee, food, street art and academic research.
My goal is to visit 200 most exciting cities in the world. Below is the current version of this constantly evolving list. The population data is based on various contradictory sources, including the UN and World Population Review.
Jakarta, Indonesia
42 million
Dhaka, Bangladesh
36 million
Tokyo, Japan
33 million
Lagos, Nigeria
13 million
Los Angeles, USA
13 million
Osaka, Japan
13 million
Chennai, India
11 million
Kinshasa, DRC
11 million
Luanda, Angola
11 million
Hyderabad, India
9 million
Paris, France
9 million
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
9 million
Khartoum, Sudan
7 million
Nagoya, Japan
7 million
Nanjing, China
7 million
Wuhan, China
7 million
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
6 million
Amman, Jordan
6 million
Ankara, Turkey
5 million
Barcelona, Spain
5 million
Brasilia, Brazil
5 million
Abuja, Nigeria
4 million
Antananarivo, Madagascar
4 million
Asuncion, Paraguay
4 million
Douala, Cameroon
4 million
Kampala, Uganda
4 million
Kano, Nigeria
4 million
Kumasi, Ghana
4 million
Montreal, Canada
4 million
Rome, Italy
4 million
Santo Domingo, Dominican Rep.
4 million
Tel Aviv, Israel
4 million
Algiers, Algeria
3 million
Damascus, Syria
3 million
Guatemala City
3 million
Guayaquil, Ecuador
3 million
Kyiv, Ukraine
3 million
Kuwait City
3 million
Lisbon, Portugal
3 million
Lusaka, Zambia
3 million
Milan, Italy
3 million
Mogadishu, Somalia
3 million
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
3 million
Port Au Prince, Haiti
3 million
Pyongyang, North Korea
3 million
Aleppo, Syria
2 million
Almaty, Kazakhstan
2 million
Auckland, New Zealand
2 million
Bucharest, Romania
2 million
Budapest, Hungary
2 million
Conakry, Guinea
2 million
Harare, Zimbabwe
2 million
Havana, Cuba
2 million
Kathmandu, Nepal
2 million
La Paz, Bolivia
2 million
Lomé, Togo
2 million
Matola, Mozambique
2 million
Muscat, Oman
2 million
N'Djamena, Chad
2 million
Panama City
2 million
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2 million
Quito, Ecuador
2 million
San Juan, Puerto Rico
2 million
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia
2 million
Stockholm, Sweden
2 million
Tegucigalpa, Honduras
2 million
Asmara, Eritrea
1 million
Bangui, Central African Republic
1 million
Belgrade, Serbia
1 million
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
1 million
Bujumbura, Burundi
1 million
Copenhagen, Denmark
1 million
Freetown, Sierra Leone
1 million
Gaza
1 million
Hargeisa
1 million
Helsinki, Finland
1 million
Jerusalem
1 million
Kigali, Rwanda
1 million
Monrovia, Liberia
1 million
Niamey, Niger
1 million
Nouakchott, Mauritania
1 million
Oslo, Norway
1 million
Prague, Czechia
1 million
San Jose, Costa Rica
1 million
Tripoli, Libya
1 million
Vientiane, Laos
1 million
Yerevan, Armenia
1 million
Zurich, Switzerland
1 million
Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
0.5 million
Bratislava, Slovakia
0.5 million
Boston, USA
0.5 million
Chișinău, Moldova
0.5 million
Djibouti
0.5 million
Ljubljana, Slovenia
0.5 million
Manama, Bahrain
0.5 million
Riga, Latvia
0.5 million
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
0.5 million
Skopje, North Macedonia
0.5 million
Tirana, Albania
0.5 million
Vilnius, Lithuania
0.5 million
Vladivostok, Russia
0.5 million
Washington DC, USA
0.5 million
