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This is a list of the largest and second largest cities by population in each country. The second city of a country is the city that is the second-most important, usually after the capital. If a territory or region of a certain country is listed, the name of the country will be specified in parentheses immediately after the name of the territory.

Country/Territory	Largest City	Second largest city	Source
A
Abkhazia (Georgia)	Sukhumi	Gagra	[1]
Afghanistan	Kabul	Herat	[2][3]
Akrotiri and Dhekelia (United Kingdom)	Episkopi Cantonment[citation needed]	Ayios Nikolaos[citation needed]
Åland Islands (Finland)	Mariehamn[citation needed]	Jomala[citation needed]
Albania	Tirana	Durrës	[4]
Algeria	Algiers	Oran	[5]
American Samoa	Tafuna	Nu'uuli	[6]
Andorra	Andorra la Vella	Les Escaldes	[7]
Angola	Luanda	Huambo	[8]
Anguilla (UK)	North Side	The Valley	[9]
Antigua and Barbuda	St. John's	All Saints	[10]
Argentina	Buenos Aires	Córdoba	[11]
Armenia	Yerevan	Gyumri	[12]
Aruba	Oranjestad	Sint Nicolaas	[13]
Ascension Island (UK)	Georgetown[citation needed]	Two Boats Village[citation needed]
Australia	Sydney	Melbourne	[14]
Austria	Vienna	Graz	[15]
Azerbaijan	Baku	Ganja	[16]
B
Bahamas	Nassau	Freeport
Bahrain	Manama	Muharraq
Bangladesh	Dhaka	Chittagong
Barbados	Bridgetown	Speightstown
Belarus	Minsk	Homel
Belgium	Brussels	Antwerp
Belize	Belize City	Orange Walk Town
Benin	Cotonou	Porto-Novo
Bermuda (UK)	Hamilton	St. George's
Bhutan	Thimphu	Phuntsholing
Bolivia	Santa Cruz de la Sierra	La Paz
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Sarajevo	Banja Luka
Botswana	Gaborone	Francistown
Brazil	São Paulo	Rio de Janeiro
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	Kuala Belait
Bulgaria	Sofia	Plovdiv	.[17]
Burkina Faso	Ouagadougou	Bobo-Dioulasso
Burundi	Bujumbura	Gitega
C
Cambodia	Phnom Penh	Battambang
Cameroon	Douala	Yaoundé
Canada	Toronto	Montreal
Cape Verde	Praia	Mindelo
Cayman Islands (UK)	George Town	West Bay
Central African Republic	Bangui	Bimbo
Chad	N'Djamena	Moundou
Chile	Santiago	Concepción
China	Shanghai	Beijing
Christmas Island (Australia)	Flying Fish Cove also known as "The Settlement"	Drumsite
Cocos (Keeling) Islands (Australia)	Bantam	West Island
Colombia	Bogotá	Medellín
Comoros	Moroni	Mutsamudu
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	Kinshasa	Lubumbashi
Congo, Republic of the	Brazzaville	Pointe-Noire
Cook Islands	Avarua	Aitutaki
Costa Rica	San José	Cartago
Côte d'Ivoire	Abidjan	Bouaké
Croatia	Zagreb	Split
Cuba	Havana	Santiago de Cuba
Cyprus	Nicosia	Limassol
Czech Republic	Prague	Brno
D
Denmark	Copenhagen	Aarhus
Djibouti	Djibouti	`Ali Sabieh
Dominica	Roseau	Portsmouth
Dominican Republic	Santo Domingo	Santiago de los Caballeros
E
East Timor	Dili	Baucau
Ecuador	Guayaquil	Quito
Egypt	Cairo	Alexandria
El Salvador	San Salvador	Santa Ana
England (UK)	London	Birmingham or Manchester
Equatorial Guinea	Malabo	Bata
Eritrea	Asmara	Keren
Estonia	Tallinn	Tartu
Ethiopia	Addis Ababa	Dire Dawa
F
Falkland Islands (UK)	Stanley	Goose Green
Faroe Islands (Denmark)	Tórshavn	Klaksvík
Fiji	Suva	Lautoka
Finland	Helsinki	Espoo
France	Paris	Lyon
French Guiana (France)	Cayenne	Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni
French Polynesia (France)	Papeete	Faa'a
G
Gabon	Libreville	Port-Gentil
Gambia, The	Serekunda	Brikama
Georgia	Tbilisi	Kutaisi
Germany	Berlin	Hamburg
Ghana	Accra	Kumasi
Gibraltar (UK)	Gibraltar is the only city
Greece	Athens	Thessaloniki
Greenland (Denmark)	Nuuk	Sisimiut
Grenada	St. George's	Grenville
Guam (United States)	Dededo	Yigo	[18]
Guatemala	Guatemala City	Quetzaltenango
Guernsey	Saint Peter Port	Vale
Guinea	Conakry	Kankan
Guinea-Bissau	Bissau	Bafatá
Guyana	Georgetown	Linden
H
Haiti	Port-au-Prince	Gonaïves
Honduras	Tegucigalpa	San Pedro Sula
Hong Kong	Kowloon	Northern Hong Kong Island
Hungary	Budapest	Debrecen
I
Iceland	Reykjavík	Akureyri
India	Mumbai	Delhi
Indonesia	Jakarta	Surabaya
Iran	Tehran	Mashhad
Iraq	Baghdad	Basra
Ireland	Dublin	Cork
Isle of Man	Douglas	Onchan
Israel	Jerusalem	Tel Aviv
Italy	Rome	Milan
J
Jamaica	Kingston	Spanish Town	[19]
Jan Mayen (Norway)	Olonkinbyen only settlement
Japan	Tokyo	Yokohama	[20]
Jersey (UK)	Saint Helier	Saint Saviour	[21]
Jordan	Amman	Zarqa	[22]
K
Kazakhstan	Almaty	Astana
Kenya	Nairobi	Mombasa
Kiribati	Betio	Bikenibeu
Korea, North	Pyongyang	Hamhung
Korea, South	Seoul	Busan
Kosovo	Pristina	Prizren
Kuwait	Kuwait City	Al Jahra
Kyrgyzstan	Bishkek	Osh
L
Laos	Vientiane	Savannakhet
Latvia	Rīga	Daugavpils
Lebanon	Beirut	Tripoli
Lesotho	Maseru	Teyateyaneng
Liberia	Monrovia	Ganta	[23]
Libya	Tripoli	Benghazi
Liechtenstein	Schaan	Vaduz
Lithuania	Vilnius	Kaunas
Luxembourg	Luxembourg City	Esch-sur-Alzette
M
Macau	Our Lady of Fatima Parish
Macedonia	Skopje	Bitola
Madagascar	Antananarivo	Toamasina
Malawi	Lilongwe	Blantyre	[24]
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur	Johor Bahru
Maldives	Malé	Hithadhoo [disambiguation needed]
Mali	Bamako	Ségou
Malta	Birkirkara	Mosta
Marshall Islands	Majuro	Ebeye
Mauritania	Nouakchott	Nouadhibou
Mauritius	Port Louis	Beau Bassin-Rose Hill
Mayotte (France)	Mamoudzou	Dzaoudzi
Mexico	Mexico City	Guadalajara
Micronesia	Weno	Kolonia
Moldova	Chişinău	Tiraspol
Monaco	Monte Carlo	La Condamine
Mongolia	Ulan Bator	Erdenet
Montenegro	Podgorica	Nikšić
Montserrat (UK)	Brades	Saint Peter's
Morocco	Casablanca	Rabat
Mozambique	Maputo	Beira
Myanmar	Yangon	Mandalay
N
Nagorno-Karabakh	Stepanakert	Shusha
Namibia	Windhoek	Walvis Bay
Nauru	Yaren	Denigomudu
Nepal	Kathmandu	Biratnagar
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Rotterdam
Netherlands Antilles (Netherlands)	Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles	Kralendijk
New Caledonia (France)	Nouméa	Mont-Doré
New Zealand	Auckland	Christchurch
Nicaragua	Managua	León
Niger	Niamey	Zinder
Nigeria	Lagos	Kano
Niue (New Zealand)	Alofi	Hakupu
Norfolk Island (Australia)	Burnt Pine	Kingston
Northern Cyprus	Nicosia	Kyrenia
Northern Ireland (UK)	Belfast	Derry
Northern Mariana Islands	San Antonio	Garapan
Norway	Oslo	Bergen
O
Oman	Muscat	Salalah
P
Pakistan	Karachi	Lahore
Palau	Koror	Airai
Palestinian territories	Gaza	Khan Yunis
Panama	Panama City	San Miguelito
Papua New Guinea	Port Moresby	Lae
Paraguay	Asunción	Ciudad del Este
Peru	Lima	Arequipa
Philippines	Manila	Quezon City
Pitcairn Islands (UK)	Adamstown is the only city
Poland	Warsaw	Kraków
Portugal	Lisbon	Porto
Puerto Rico (US)	San Juan	Bayamón	[25]
Q
Qatar	Doha	Al Wakrah
R
Romania	Bucharest	Timişoara
Russia	Moscow	Saint Petersburg
Rwanda	Kigali	Butare
S
Saint Barthélemy (France)	Gustavia	St. Jean
Saint Helena (UK)	Half Tree Hollow	Jamestown
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Basseterre	Sandy Point Town
Saint Lucia	Castries	Vieux Fort Quarter
Saint Martin	Marigot	Rambaud
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (France)	Saint-Pierre	Miquelon-Langlade
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	Kingstown	Georgetown
Samoa	Apia	Vaitele	[26]
San Marino	Dogana	Borgo Maggiore
São Tomé and Príncipe	São Tomé	Santo Amaro
Saudi Arabia	Riyadh	Jeddah	[27]
Senegal	Dakar	Thiès
Serbia	Belgrade	Novi Sad
Seychelles	Victoria	Anse Etoile
Scotland (UK)	Glasgow	Edinburgh
Sierra Leone	Freetown	Bo
Singapore	Singapore City is the only city
Slovakia	Bratislava	Košice
Slovenia	Ljubljana	Maribor
Solomon Islands	Honiara	Gizo
Somalia	Mogadishu	Hargeisa
Somaliland (Somalia)	Hargeisa	Berbera
South Africa	Johannesburg	Cape Town
South Ossetia (Georgia)	Tskhinvali	Akhalgori
Spain	Madrid	Barcelona
Sri Lanka	Colombo	Jaffna
Sudan	Omdurman	Khartoum
Suriname	Paramaribo	Lelydorp
Svalbard (Norway)	Longyearbyen	Barentsburg
Swaziland	Manzini	Mbabane
Sweden	Stockholm	Gothenburg
Switzerland	Zürich	Geneva
Syria	Damascus	Aleppo
T
Republic of China (Taiwan)	Taipei	Kaohsiung
Tajikistan	Dushanbe	Khujand
Tanzania	Dar es Salaam	Mwanza
Thailand	Bangkok	Nonthaburi
Togo	Lomé	Sokodé
Tokelau	Atafu	Fale
Tonga	Nukuʻalofa	Mu'a
Transnistria (Moldova)	Tiraspol	Tighina
Trinidad and Tobago	Chaguanas	San Fernando
Tristan da Cunha (UK)	Edinburgh of the Seven Seas is the only city
Tunisia	Tunis	Sfax
Turkey	Istanbul	Ankara
Turkmenistan	Ashgabat	Türkmenabat
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)	Cockburn Town	Cockburn Harbour
Tuvalu	Vaiaku	Asau
U
Uganda	Kampala	Jinja
Ukraine	Kiev	Kharkiv
United Arab Emirates	Dubai	Abu Dhabi
United Kingdom	London	Birmingham	[28]
United States of America	New York	Los Angeles	[29]
Uruguay	Montevideo	Salto
Uzbekistan	Tashkent	Samarkand
V
Vanuatu	Port Vila	Luganville
Vatican City	Vatican City is the only city
Venezuela	Caracas	Maracaibo
Vietnam	Ho Chi Minh City	Hanoi
Virgin Islands, British	Road Town	Spanish Town
Virgin Islands, United States	Charlotte Amalie	Anna's Retreat
W
Wales (UK)	Cardiff	Swansea
Wallis and Futuna	Mata-Utu	Alele
Western Sahara	El Aaiún	Dakhla
Y
Yemen	Sana'a	Aden
Z
Zambia	Lusaka	Ndola
Zimbabwe	Harare	Bulawayo

[edit] See also

• List of capitals and largest cities by country
• List of second cities

[edit] References