List of major cities across the globe. Criteria of having a population > 1 million.
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Source
Where the data comes from now
- UN World Urbanization Prospects — UN population estimates and projections for urban agglomerations over 300,000; revised periodically.
- GeoNames data export — Free downloadable gazetteer of cities with population, coordinates and country; updated daily.
- Wikipedia: List of largest cities — Continuously maintained list of city proper, urban and metro populations with sources.
Where to get it
glitchdata catalogues this dataset but does not host the files here. It is published in the glitchdata shop (US$5), where the download covers every format listed above.
Last updated on the source site: 2013-11-13.