Moscow, July 19 - “News. Economy". Every year the population of Russian cities is increasing. Demography is one of the main economic indicators of urban development, so it is important to monitor the dynamics of population changes. INNOV has prepared a list of the largest cities in Russia. The population of cities was used as the main indicator. According to Rosstat, large cities in Russia can be divided into several groups according to population size. Among them are cities with a population of 1.5 million to 500 thousand inhabitants (15 cities), 43 cities with a population of 500 thousand to 250 thousand inhabitants, and 90 cities with a population of 250 thousand to 100 thousand people. Below we present the top 10 largest cities in Russia. 1. Moscow
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 12,330,126 Change since 2015: +1.09% Moscow - capital Russian Federation, a city of federal significance, the administrative center of Central federal district and the center of the Moscow region, which it is not part of. The largest city in Russia by population and its subject, the most populous of the cities located entirely in Europe, is among the top ten cities in the world by population. Center of the Moscow urban agglomeration. 2. St. Petersburg
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 5,225,690 Change since 2015: +0.65% St. Petersburg is the second most populous city in Russia. City of federal significance. Administrative center of the Northwestern Federal District and Leningrad region. St. Petersburg is the northernmost city in the world with a population of more than one million people. Among cities entirely located in Europe, St. Petersburg is the third most populous and also the first non-capital city in terms of population. 3. Novosibirsk
Population: (as of January 1, 2016): 1,584,138 Change since 2015: +1.09% Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia by population and thirteenth by area, and has the status of an urban district. The administrative center of the Siberian Federal District, the Novosibirsk Region and its constituent Novosibirsk District; the city is the center of the Novosibirsk agglomeration. Trade, business, cultural, industrial, transport and scientific center of federal significance. 4. Ekaterinburg
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,444,439 Change since 2015: 1.15% Ekaterinburg is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Ural Federal District and Sverdlovsk region. It is the largest administrative, cultural, scientific and educational center of the Ural region. Ekaterinburg is the fourth most populous city (after Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk) in Russia. The Yekaterinburg agglomeration is the fourth largest agglomeration in Russia. It is one of the three most developed post-industrial agglomerations in the country. 5. Nizhny Novgorod
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,266,871 Change since 2015: -0.07% Nizhny Novgorod is a city in central Russia, administrative center of the Volga Federal District and Nizhny Novgorod region. Nizhny Novgorod is an important economic, industrial, scientific, educational and Cultural Center Russia, the largest transport hub and government center of the entire Volga Federal District. The city is one of the main destinations for river tourism in Russia. The historical part of the city is rich in attractions and is a popular tourist center. 6. Kazan
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,216,965 Change since 2015: +0.94% Kazan is a city in the Russian Federation, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, a large port on the left bank of the Volga River, at the confluence of the Kazanka River. One of the largest religious, economic, political, scientific, educational, cultural and sports centers in Russia. The Kazan Kremlin is one of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The city has a registered brand “the third capital of Russia”. Kazan is the largest city in the Volga economic region. A compact spatial grouping of settlements has formed around Kazan, constituting one of the largest urban agglomerations in the Russian Federation. 7. Chelyabinsk
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,191,994 Change since 2015: +0.73% Chelyabinsk is the seventh largest city in the Russian Federation by number of inhabitants, the fourteenth largest by area, administrative center Chelyabinsk region. Chelyabinsk is the seventh largest city in the Russian Federation by population and the second in the Ural Federal District. In 2016, a forecast was made according to which the population of Chelyabinsk should decline from this year, but the number of residents continues to grow. 8. Omsk
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,178,079 Change since 2015: +0.36% Omsk is one of the largest cities in Russia, the administrative center of the Omsk region, located at the confluence of the Irtysh and Om rivers. Omsk is a large industrial center with enterprises in various industries, including defense and aerospace. It is a million-plus city, the second most populous in Siberia and the eighth in Russia. The Omsk agglomeration has more than 1.2 million people. 9. Samara
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,170,910 Change since 2015: -0.08% Samara is a city in the Middle Volga region of Russia, the center of the Volga economic region and the Samara region, forms the Samara urban district. It is the ninth most populous city in Russia. Over 2.7 million people live within the agglomeration (the third most populous in Russia). A large economic, transport, scientific, educational and cultural center. Main industries: mechanical engineering, oil refining and food industry. 10. Rostov-on-Don
Population (as of January 1, 2016): 1,119,875 Change since 2015: +0.45% Rostov-on-Don is the largest city in the south of the Russian Federation, the administrative center of the Southern Federal District and Rostov region. With a population of 1,119,875 people, it is the tenth most populous city in Russia. It is also the 30th most populous city in Europe. Ranks 1st among cities in the Southern Federal District. Over 2.16 million people live within the Rostov agglomeration (the fourth largest agglomeration in the country), the Rostov-Shakhty polycentric agglomeration-conurbation has about 2.7 million inhabitants (the third largest in the country). The city is a large administrative, cultural, scientific, educational, industrial center and the most important transport hub in the South of Russia. Unofficially, Rostov is called the “Gateway of the Caucasus” and southern capital Russia.
Russia is a country with enough high level urbanization. Today there are 15 million-plus cities in our country. Which Russian cities are currently leading in terms of population? You will find the answer to this question in this fascinating article.
Urbanization and Russia
Is urbanization an achievement or a scourge of our time? It's difficult to answer this question. After all, this process is characterized by enormous inconsistency, provoking both positive and negative consequences.
Under this concept in in a broad sense understand the growing role of the city in human life. This process, having burst into our lives in the twentieth century, fundamentally changed not only the reality around us, but also the person himself.
In mathematical terms, urbanization is an indicator that marks the proportion of the urban population of a country or region. Countries in which this indicator exceeds 65% are considered highly urbanized. In the Russian Federation, about 73% of the population lives in cities. You can find a list of cities in Russia below.
It should be noted that the processes of urbanization in Russia took place (and are taking place) in two aspects:
- The emergence of new cities that covered new areas of the country.
- Expansion of existing cities and the formation of large agglomerations.
History of Russian cities
In 1897, within modern Russia, the All-Russian Council counted 430 cities. Most of them were small towns; at that time there were only seven large ones. And they were all up to the line Ural mountains. But in Irkutsk - the current center of Siberia - there were barely 50 thousand inhabitants.
A century later, the situation with cities in Russia has changed dramatically. It is quite possible that the main reason for this was the completely reasonable regional policy pursued by the Soviet authorities in the twentieth century. One way or another, by 1997 the number of cities in the country had increased to 1087, and the share of the urban population had grown to 73 percent. At the same time, the number of cities increased twenty-three times! And today almost 50% of the total population of Russia lives in them.
Thus, only a hundred years have passed, and Russia has transformed from a country of villages into a state of big cities.
Russia is a country of megacities
The largest cities in Russia in terms of population are distributed quite unevenly across its territory. Most of them are located in the most populated part of the country. Moreover, in Russia there is a steady trend towards the formation of agglomerations. It is they who form the framework network (socio-economic and cultural) on which the entire settlement system, as well as the country’s economy, is strung.
850 cities (out of 1087) are located within European Russia and the Urals. In terms of area, this is only 25% of the state's territory. But in the vast Siberian and Far Eastern expanses there are only 250 cities. This nuance extremely complicates the process of development of the Asian part of Russia: the shortage of large megacities is felt especially acutely here. After all, there are colossal mineral deposits here. However, there is simply no one to develop them.
The Russian North also cannot boast of a dense network of large cities. This region is also characterized by focal population settlement. The same can be said about the south of the country, where only lonely and brave daredevil cities “survive” in the mountainous and foothill regions.
So can Russia be called a country of big cities? Of course. Nevertheless, in this country, with its vast expanses and colossal natural resources, there is still a shortage of large cities.
The largest cities in Russia by population: TOP-5
As mentioned above, in Russia as of 2015 there are 15 million-plus cities. This title, as is known, is given to that settlement whose number of inhabitants has exceeded one million.
So, we list the largest cities in Russia by population:
- Moscow (from 12 to 14 million inhabitants according to various sources).
- St. Petersburg (5.13 million people).
- Novosibirsk (1.54 million people).
- Yekaterinburg (1.45 million people).
- Nizhny Novgorod (1.27 million people).
If we carefully analyze the population (namely, its top part), then you can notice one interesting feature. It's about about a fairly large gap in the number of residents between the first, second and third lines of this rating.
Thus, over twelve million people live in the capital, and about five million in St. Petersburg. But the third largest city in Russia - Novosibirsk - is inhabited by only one and a half million inhabitants.
Moscow is the largest metropolis on the planet
The capital of the Russian Federation is one of the largest megacities in the world. It is very difficult to say how many residents live in Moscow. Official sources talk about twelve million people, unofficial sources give other figures: from thirteen to fifteen million. Experts, in turn, predict that in the coming decades the population of Moscow may even increase to twenty million people.
Moscow is included in the list of 25 so-called “global” cities (according to Foreign Policy magazine). These are the cities that make the most significant contribution to the development of world civilization.
Moscow is not only a significant industrial, political, scientific, educational and financial center of Europe, but also a tourist center. Four sites of the Russian capital are included in the UNESCO heritage list.
Finally...
In total, approximately 25% of the country’s population lives in 15 million-plus cities in Russia. And all these cities continue to attract more and more people.
The largest cities in Russia by population are, of course, Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk. All of them have significant industrial, cultural, as well as scientific and educational potential.
Russia. The vastness of this State has no end or beginning. In Russia, as in any other place modern country, there are cities. Small, medium and even cities with a million people. Each city has its own history, and each one is different.
Every year, sociological research is carried out in populated areas, mainly a population census. The vast majority of cities are small settlements, especially since there are parts of Russia where settlement is not so intensive. The ranking presents the ten smallest cities in the Russian Federation.
City of Kedrovy. 2129 people
The city of Kedrovy is located in the Tomsk region and is very little known. Located in a pine forest, its purpose is a settlement for oil station workers.
Kedrovy was built in the eighties of the last century. This entire city consists of almost nothing but five-story buildings. Surprising: several five-story buildings in a pine forest. Probably its residents do not complain about the smell of exhaust fumes and the noise of cars. 2129 people – population of the city of Kedrovy.
Ostrovnoy city. 2065 people
Murmansk region. Located on the coast, near the Yokang Islands (Barents Sea). What’s most interesting is that it’s practically a ghost town. Only about 20% inhabited by people. There are no roads into the city. Railway lines too. Can only be reached by water or air. Previously, as those who still remained there say, planes flew, but now only helicopters flew, and then only occasionally. If you look at it from afar, the city is quite large, but if you know its population, it will be difficult to believe. In total, 2065 citizens live in this dying city.
City of Gorbatov. 2049 people
Approximately 60 kilometers from Nizhny Novgorod. The city is truly ancient; information about it was first recorded in 1565. Before it began to die out, it produces (and previously produced) ropes, ropes and other similar things for the navy.
Research was carried out, and the results indicate that 2049 people now live in the city. Apart from ropes and ropes, gardening is also very well developed in this city. There is also a souvenir products factory.
City of Plyos. 1984 people
Belongs to the Ivanovo region. There is information about him that comes from the chronicle of the Novgorod monasteries (1141), this information is the first. Some sources say that this city once had its own fortress, but when is still not clear. The population is falling, but the city will probably continue to attract tourists with its legend.
It is not like modern cities: there are no five-story buildings, no transport communications. It looks like an ordinary village, only bigger. The population is 1984 people. The city has no industrial enterprises.
City of Primorsk. 1943 people
His buildings are actually more modern. Reminiscent of little Pripyat, apparently built to the same standards. Is in Kaliningrad region. Before the war it belonged to the Germans, but was captured in 1945 by the Red Army.
It acquired its name two years after the capture. Now it is home to 1943 people. As far as we know, it can be easily reached. Before the city belonged to the Soviet Union, it was called Fischhausen. From 2005 to 2008 it was listed as an urban-type settlement of the Baltic urban district.
City of Artyomovsk. 1837 people
In the last century, about thirteen thousand were registered (in 1959). The population began to plummet. It is located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, about 370 kilometers from the center. Looks like large plant in mountainous areas.
It is in fifth place in the ranking of the smallest cities in the Russian Federation. This city was founded in 1700; it was previously called Olkhovka, as it was surrounded by trees of this type. Now it is part of the Kuraginsky district. The population is falling by this moment it amounts to 1837 people. It is engaged in the timber industry, as well as the mining of gold, copper and silver.
City of Kurilsk. 1646 people
This city has a population of 1,646 people and is located on the island of Iturup. Belongs to the Sakhalin region. The Ainu, an indigenous tribe, once lived here. Later this place was settled by explorers Tsarist Russia. It is somewhat reminiscent of a resort village, although the climate for recreation is very unsuitable.
The area is mountainous, which adds more picturesque places to Kurilsk. He is mainly engaged in fish farming. In 1800 it was captured by the Japanese and only by 1945 it was occupied by soldiers of the Red Army. The climate is moderate.
City of Verkhoyansk. 1131 people
This city is the northernmost settlement in Yakutia. The climate is very cold; several decades ago the air temperature was recorded here, which was about -67 degrees Celsius. Winter is very frosty and windy.
This city is characterized by low rainfall. In 2016, its population was 1,125 people, and in 2017, according to the latest population census, it increased by 6 people. This city was built as a Cossack winter hut.
City of Vysotsk. 1120 people
It was built as a port. Located in the Leningrad region (Vyborg district). Passed into possession Soviet Union only in the early forties of the last century, and before that it belonged to Finland. It plays a strategic role, since the naval base of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation operates here. The population of the city of Vysotsk is, according to the latest data, 1120 inhabitants. Vysotsk is located in a very convenient place for border troops, right on the border with Finland. The port also has an oil loading function.
City of Chekalin. 964 people
Tula region, Suvorovsky district. In first place in the ranking of the smallest cities in the Russian Federation. In 2012 they wanted to recognize it as a village, but city residents began to protest and abandoned the status. Another, old name is Likhvin.
During the war, Likhvin was renamed Chkalin. The fact is that at this place the Nazis executed a partisan, who was then only sixteen years old. Received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. Despite such a small population of only 964 people, in 1565 (the year of its foundation) it occupied an area of approximately 1 square verst.
The population of modern Russia lives mainly in cities. In pre-revolutionary Russia, the rural population predominated; today the urban population dominates (73%, 108.1 million people). Right up Until 1990, Russia experienced a constant increase in urban population, promoting a rapid increase in its specific gravity in the country's population. If in 1913 urban residents accounted for only 18%, in 1985 - 72.4%, then in 1991 their number reached 109.6 million people (73.9%).
The main source of the steady growth of the urban population during the Soviet period was the influx of rural residents into cities due to redistribution between and agriculture. An important role in ensuring high rates of annual urban population growth is played by the transformation of some rural settlements to urban ones with changes in their functions. To a much lesser extent, the country's urban population grew due to the natural increase in urban population.
Since 1991 for the first time in many decades in Russia the urban population began to decline. In 1991, the urban population decreased by 126 thousand people, in 1992 - by 752 thousand people, in 1993 - by 549 thousand people, in 1994 - by 125 thousand people, in 1995 - for 200 thousand people. Thus, for 1991-1995. the reduction amounted to 1 million 662 thousand people. As a result, the share of the country's urban population decreased from 73.9 to 73.0%, but by 2001 it rose to 74% with an urban population of 105.6 million people.
The largest absolute reduction in the urban population occurred in Central (387 thousand people). Far Eastern (368 thousand people) and West Siberian (359 thousand people) regions. The Far Eastern (6.0%), Northern (5.0%) and Western Siberian (3.2%) regions are leading in terms of the rate of reduction. In the Asian part of the country, the absolute losses of the urban population as a whole are greater than in the European part (836 thousand people, or 3.5%, compared to 626 thousand people, or 0.7%).
The trend towards an increase in the share of the urban population continued until 1995 only in the Volga, Central Black Earth, Ural, North Caucasus and Volga-Vyatka regions, and in the last two regions the increase in urban population in 1991-1994. was minimal.
Basic reasons for the decline in urban population in Russia:
- the changed ratio of migration flows arriving in and leaving urban settlements;
- reduction in last years the number of urban-type settlements (in 1991 their number was 2204; by the beginning of 1994 - 2070; 2000 - 1875; 2005-1461; 2008 - 1361);
- negative natural population growth.
In Russia, it left its mark not only on the ratio of urban and rural populations in a territorial context, but also on the structure of urban settlements.
Population of Russian cities
A city in Russia can be considered a settlement whose population exceeds 12 thousand people and more than 85% of the population of which is employed in non-agricultural production. Cities are classified according to their functions: industrial, transport, scientific centers, resort cities. Based on population, cities are divided into small (up to 50 thousand people), medium (50-100 thousand people), large (100-250 thousand people), large (250-500 thousand people), largest (500 thousand people). - 1 million people) and millionaire cities (population over 1 million people). G.M. Lappo distinguishes the category of semi-medium cities with a population of 20 to 50 thousand people. The capitals of republics, territories and regions perform several functions - they are multifunctional cities.
Before the Great Patriotic War there were two millionaire cities in Russia, in 1995 their number increased to 13 (Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Volgograd, Omsk, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Yekaterinburg, Ufa, Chelyabinsk).
Currently (2009) there are 11 millionaire cities in Russia (Table 2).
A number of the largest cities in Russia with a population of more than 700 thousand, but less than 1 million - Perm, Volgograd, Krasnoyarsk, Saratov, Voronezh, Krasnodar, Togliatti - are sometimes called sub-millionaire cities. The first two of these cities, which were once millionaires, as well as Krasnoyarsk, are often called millionaires in journalism and semi-officially.
Most of them (except Togliatti and partly Volgograd and Saratov) are also interregional centers socio-economic development and attraction.
Table 2. Millionaire cities in Russia
More than 40% of the population lives in large cities of Russia. Multifunctional cities are growing very quickly, satellite cities appear next to them, forming urban agglomerations.
Millionaire cities are the centers of urban agglomerations, which additionally characterize the population and importance of the city (Table 3).
Despite the advantages of large cities, their growth is limited, as difficulties arise in providing cities with water and housing, supplying a growing population, and preserving green areas.
Rural population of Russia
Rural settlement is the distribution of residents among settlements located in rural areas. Wherein countryside The entire territory located outside urban settlements is considered. IN beginning of XXI V. in Russia there are approximately 150 thousand rural settlements, which are home to about 38.8 million people (2002 census data). The main difference between rural settlements and urban ones is that their residents are primarily engaged in agriculture. In fact, in modern Russia, only 55% of the rural population is engaged in agriculture, the remaining 45% work in industry, transport, non-production and other “urban” sectors of the economy.
Table 3. Urban agglomerations of Russia
The nature of the settlement of the rural population of Russia varies according to natural areas depending on conditions economic activity, national traditions and customs of the peoples living in those regions. These are villages, villages, hamlets, auls, temporary settlements of hunters and reindeer herders, etc. The average rural population density in Russia is approximately 2 people/km 2 . The most high density rural population was noted in the south of Russia in the Ciscaucasia (Krasnodar Territory - more than 64 people/km 2).
Rural settlements are classified depending on their size (population) and functions performed. The average size rural settlements in Russia are 150 times smaller than urban ones. The following groups of rural settlements are distinguished by size:
- smallest (up to 50 inhabitants);
- small (51-100 inhabitants);
- medium (101-500 inhabitants);
- large (501-1000 inhabitants);
- the largest (over 1000 inhabitants).
Almost half (48%) of all rural settlements in the country are small, but they are home to 3% of the rural population. The largest share of rural residents (almost half) live in the largest settlements. Especially large sizes Rural settlements in the North Caucasus are distinguished, where they spread over many kilometers and number up to 50 thousand inhabitants. The share of the largest settlements in the total number of rural settlements is constantly increasing. In the 90s of the XX century. settlements of refugees and temporary migrants have appeared, cottage and holiday villages are expanding in the suburbs of large cities.
By functional type The vast majority of rural settlements (more than 90%) are agricultural. Most non-agricultural settlements are transport (approx. railway stations) or recreational (near sanatoriums, rest homes, and other institutions), also industrial, logging, military, etc.
Within the agricultural type, settlements are distinguished:
- with significant development administrative, service and distribution functions (district centers);
- with local administrative and economic functions (centers of rural administrations and central estates of large agricultural enterprises);
- with the presence of large agricultural production (crop crews, livestock farms);
- without manufacturing enterprises, with the development of only personal subsidiary farming.
At the same time, the size of settlements naturally decreases from rural regional centers (which are the largest) to settlements without industrial enterprises (which, as a rule, are small and minute).
List of cities in the world by population with a population of more than 4 million people as of January 2015. There are 3 cities with a population of more than 20 million people and 16 cities with a population of more than 10 million people. The largest cities are Shanghai (24,150,000 people), Karachi (23,500,000) and Beijing (21,150,000). Among the largest cities there are two Russian ones: Moscow (10th place) and St. Petersburg (43rd place). The table shows the population of cities excluding suburbs.
Cities by population
| # | City | Population (persons) | City area (km 2) | Population density (persons/km 2) | A country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shanghai | 24,150,000 (with rural suburbs) | 6 340,50 | 3 809 | PRC PRC |
| 2 | Karachi | 23 500 000 | 3 527,00 | 6 663 | Pakistan Pakistan |
| 3 | Beijing | 21,516,000 (with rural suburbs) | 16 410,54 | 1 311 | PRC PRC |
| 4 | Delhi | 16 314 838 | 1 484,00 | 7 846 | India India |
| 5 | Lagos | 15 118 780 | 999,58 | 17 068 | Nigeria Nigeria |
| 6 | Istanbul | 13 854 740 | 5 461,00 | 6 467 | Turkey Turkey |
| 7 | Guangzhou | 13 080 500 | 3 843,43 | 3 305 | PRC PRC |
| 8 | Mumbai | 12 478 447 | 603,40 | 20 680 | India India |
| 9 | Tokyo | 13 370 198 | 622,99 | 14 562 | Japan Japan |
| 10 | Moscow | 12 197 596 | 2 561,50 | 4 814 | Russia, Russia |
| 11 | Dhaka | 12 043 977 | 815,80 | 14 763 | Bangladesh Bangladesh |
| 12 | Cairo | 11 922 949 | 3 085,10 | 3 864 | Egypt Egypt |
| 13 | Sao Paulo | 11 895 893 | 1 521,11 | 7 762 | Brazil Brazil |
| 14 | Lahore | 11 318 745 | 1 772,00 | 3 566 | Pakistan Pakistan |
| 15 | Shenzhen | 10 467 400 | 1 991,64 | 5 255 | PRC PRC |
| 16 | Seoul | 10 388 055 | 605,21 | 17 164 | The Republic of Korea The Republic of Korea |
| 17 | Jakarta | 9 988 329 | 664,12 | 15 040 | Indonesia Indonesia |
| 18 | Kinshasa | 9 735 000 | 1 117,62 | 8 710 | Democratic Republic Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| 19 | Tianjin | 9 341 844 | 4 037,00 | 2 314 | PRC PRC |
| 20 | Mexico City | 8 874 724 | 1 485,49 | 5 974 | Mexico Mexico |
| 21 | Lima | 8 693 387 | 2 672,30 | 3 253 | Peru Peru |
| 22 | Bangalore | 8 425 970 | 709,50 | 11 876 | India India |
| 23 | London | 8 416 535 | 1 572,15 | 5 354 | UK UK |
| 24 | NY | 8 405 837 | 783,84 | 10 724 | USA USA |
| 25 | Bangkok | 8 280 925 | 1 568,74 | 5 280 | Thailand Thailand |
| 26 | Dongguan | 8 220 207 | 2 469,40 | 3 329 | PRC PRC |
| 27 | Tehran | 8 154 051 | 686,00 | 11 886 | Iran Iran |
| 28 | Ahmedabad | 8 029 975 | 475,00 | 11 727 | India India |
| 29 | Bogota | 7 776 845 | 859,11 | 9 052 | Colombia Colombia |
| 30 | Ho Chi Minh City | 7 681 700 | 2 095,60 | 3 667 | Vietnam Vietnam |
| 31 | Hong Kong | 7 219 700 | 1 104,43 | 6 537 | PRC PRC |
| 32 | Baghdad | 7 180 889 | 4 555,00 | 1 577 | Iraq Iraq |
| 33 | Wuhan | 6 886 253 | 1 327,61 | 5 187 | PRC PRC |
| 34 | Hyderabad | 6 809 970 | 621,48 | 10 958 | India India |
| 35 | Hanoi | 6 844 100 | 3 323,60 | 2 059 | Vietnam Vietnam |
| 36 | Luanda | 6 542 944 | 2 257,00 | 2 899 | Angola Angola |
| 37 | Rio de Janeiro | 6 429 923 | 1 200,27 | 5 357 | Brazil Brazil |
| 38 | Foshan | 6 151 622 | 2 034,62 | 3 023 | PRC PRC |
| 39 | Santiago | 5 743 719 | 1 249,90 | 4 595 | Chile Chile |
| 40 | Riyadh | 5 676 621 | 1 233,98 | 4 600 | Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia |
| 41 | Singapore | 5 399 200 | 712,40 | 7 579 | Singapore Singapore |
| 42 | Shantou | 5 391 028 | 2 064,42 | 2 611 | PRC PRC |
| 43 | Saint Petersburg | 5 225 690 | 1 439,00 | 3 631 | Russia, Russia |
| 44 | Pune | 5 049 968 | 450,69 | 6 913 | India India |
| 45 | Ankara | 5 045 083 | 1 910,92 | 2 282 | Turkey Turkey |
| 46 | Chennai | 4 792 949 | 426,51 | 21 057 | India India |
| 47 | Abidjan | 4 765 000 | 2 119,00 | 2 249 | Cote d'Ivoire Cote d'Ivoire |
| 48 | Chengdu | 4 741 929 | 421,00 | 11 260 | PRC PRC |
| 49 | Yangon | 4 714 000 | 598,75 | 7 873 | Myanmar Myanmar |
| 50 | Alexandria | 4 616 625 | 2 300,00 | 2 007 | Egypt Egypt |
| 51 | Chongqing | 4 513 137 | 1 435,07 | 3 145 | PRC PRC |
| 52 | Calcutta | 4 486 679 | 200,70 | 24 252 | India India |
| 53 | Xi'an | 4 467 837 | 832,17 | 5 388 | China Links
An excerpt characterizing the List of cities in the world by populationNapoleon enters Moscow after a brilliant victory de la Moskowa; there can be no doubt about victory, since the battlefield remains with the French. The Russians retreat and give up the capital. Moscow, filled with provisions, weapons, shells and untold riches, is in the hands of Napoleon. The Russian army, twice as weak as the French, did not make a single attack attempt for a month. Napoleon's position is most brilliant. In order to fall with double forces on the remnants of the Russian army and destroy it, in order to negotiate an advantageous peace or, in case of refusal, to make a threatening move towards St. Petersburg, in order to even, in case of failure, return to Smolensk or Vilna , or stay in Moscow - in order, in a word, to maintain the brilliant position in which the French army was at that time, it would seem that no special genius is needed. To do this, it was necessary to do the simplest and easiest thing: to prevent the troops from looting, to prepare winter clothes, which would be enough in Moscow for the entire army, and to properly collect the provisions that were in Moscow for more than six months (according to French historians) for the entire army. Napoleon, this most brilliant of geniuses and who had the power to control the army, as historians say, did nothing of this.Not only did he not do any of this, but, on the contrary, he used his power to choose from all the paths of activity that presented itself to him that which was the stupidest and most destructive of all. Of all the things that Napoleon could do: winter in Moscow, go to St. Petersburg, go to Nizhny Novgorod, go back, north or south, the way that Kutuzov later went - well, whatever he could come up with, was stupider and more destructive than what he did Napoleon, that is, to remain in Moscow until October, leaving the troops to plunder the city, then, hesitating, to leave or not to leave the garrison, to leave Moscow, to approach Kutuzov, not to start a battle, to go to the right, to reach Maly Yaroslavets, again without experiencing the chance of breaking through , to go not along the road that Kutuzov took, but to go back to Mozhaisk and along the devastated Smolensk road - nothing more stupid than this, nothing more destructive for the army could be imagined, as the consequences showed. Let the most skillful strategists come up with, imagining that Napoleon’s goal was to destroy his army, come up with another series of actions that would, with the same certainty and independence from everything that the Russian troops did, would destroy the entire French army, like what Napoleon did. The genius Napoleon did it. But to say that Napoleon destroyed his army because he wanted it, or because he was very stupid, would be just as unfair as to say that Napoleon brought his troops to Moscow because he wanted it, and because that he was very smart and brilliant. In both cases, his personal activity, which had no more power than the personal activity of each soldier, only coincided with the laws according to which the phenomenon took place. It is completely false (only because the consequences did not justify Napoleon’s activities) that historians present to us Napoleon’s forces as weakened in Moscow. He, just as before and after, in the 13th year, used all his skill and strength to do the best for himself and his army. Napoleon's activities during this time were no less amazing than in Egypt, Italy, Austria and Prussia. We do not know truly the extent to which Napoleon’s genius was real in Egypt, where forty centuries they looked at his greatness, because all these great exploits were described to us only by the French. We cannot correctly judge his genius in Austria and Prussia, since information about his activities there must be drawn from French and German sources; and the incomprehensible surrender of corps without battles and fortresses without siege should incline the Germans to recognize genius as the only explanation for the war that was waged in Germany. But, thank God, there is no reason for us to recognize his genius in order to hide our shame. We paid for the right to look at the matter simply and directly, and we will not give up this right. His work in Moscow is as amazing and ingenious as everywhere else. Orders after orders and plans after plans emanate from him from the time he entered Moscow until he left it. The absence of residents and deputations and the very fire of Moscow do not bother him. He does not lose sight of the welfare of his army, nor the actions of the enemy, nor the welfare of the peoples of Russia, nor the administration of the valleys of Paris, nor diplomatic considerations about the upcoming conditions of peace. In military terms, immediately upon entering Moscow, Napoleon strictly orders General Sebastiani to monitor the movements of the Russian army, sends corps along different roads and orders Murat to find Kutuzov. Then he diligently gives orders to strengthen the Kremlin; then he makes an ingenious plan for a future campaign across the entire map of Russia. In terms of diplomacy, Napoleon calls to himself the robbed and ragged captain Yakovlev, who does not know how to get out of Moscow, sets out to him in detail all his policies and his generosity and, writing a letter to Emperor Alexander, in which he considers it his duty to inform his friend and brother that Rastopchin made bad decisions in Moscow, he sends Yakovlev to St. Petersburg. Having outlined his views and generosity in the same detail to Tutolmin, he sends this old man to St. Petersburg for negotiations. |
