Many of the major cities in the world are located in Asia, on the other hand over 60% of the population lives on this continent, with China and India which alone have now exceeded two billion and seven hundred million inhabitants.The following ranking is ordered by the number of inhabitants of urban agglomerations, fact that reflects more reality than that of administrative borders, as over time, in most cases, cities have expanded far beyond these limits, incorporating into the urban area other neighboring cities previously separated from the main center by rural or uninhabited areas; however, the data relating to the population of the city alone is also presented, excluding its conurbation, which in some cases coincides with the previous one, as the city borders may have been redefined in the meantime.
In some countries, especially China, the municipalities are very large and often include rural / wooded areas, for example Chongqing, which has about 29 million inhabitants, but on an area of 82,403 kmē, in fact similar to a region more than a real city, in these cases only the inhabitants of the urban area contiguous to the city center are counted.
Tokyo at the moment is the most populous metropolis of the entire planet, considering the urban agglomeration, but there are other cities with much higher growth rates that in the future should contend with it for this supremacy.
The list obviously includes a large number of cities in China and India, but there are large metropolises all over the continent, even in less populated areas, such as the Arabian Peninsula; none in Asian part of Russia.
| City | Urban aggl. | Population | Urban area | Country | Other cities in urban area |
| Tokyo | 37,325,000 | 9,878,000 | 8,775 Kmē | Japan | Yokohama, Kawasaki, Saitama, Chiba |
| Jakarta | 35,386,000 | 10,685,000 | 3,546 Kmē | Indonesia | Bekasi, Tangerang, Depok, Tangerang Selatan, Bogor |
| Delhi | 31,190,000 | 11,035,000 | 2,344 Kmē | India | Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Gurgaon, Noida |
| Guangzhou | 27,119,000 | 16,097,000 | 4,543 Kmē | China | Foshan |
| Manila | 25,521,000 | 1,903,000 | 1,911 Kmē | Philippines | Quezon City, Caloocan, Taguig |
| Dhaka | 25,305,000 | 11,350,000 | 1,083 Kmē | Bangladesh | Gazipur, Narayanganj |
| Mumbai | 25,189,000 | 12,442,000 | 1,046 Kmē | India | Vasai-Virar, Bhiwandi |
| Shanghai | 24,042,000 | 21,910,000 | 4,333 Kmē | China | |
| Seoul | 23,825,000 | 9,287,000 | 2,769 Kmē | South Korea | Incheon, Suwon, Goyang, Yongin |
| Kolkata | 21,747,000 | 4,497,000 | 1,352 Kmē | India | |
| Karachi | 21,258,000 | 21,258,000 | 1,124 Kmē | Pakistan | |
| Bangkok | 20,284,000 | 8,270,000 | 3,199 Kmē | Thailand | Nonthaburi, Pak Kret |
| Beijing | 18,883,000 | 18,883,000 | 4,284 Kmē | China | |
| Shenzhen | 17,778,000 | 17,445,000 | 1,808 Kmē | China | |
| Ho Chi Minh City | 16,024,000 | 8,150,000 | 2,274 Kmē | Vietnam | Bien Hoa |
| Istanbul | 15,306,000 | 15,306,000 | 1,471 Kmē | Turkey | |
| Bangalore | 15,257,000 | 8,495,000 | 1,743 Kmē | India | |
| Chengdu | 15,016,000 | 13,568,000 | 1,935 Kmē | China | |
| Osaka | 14,998,000 | 2,816,000 | 3,020 Kmē | Japan | Kobe, Kyoto, Sakai, Himeji |
| Lahore | 14,256,000 | 14,256,000 | 945 Kmē | Pakistan | |
| Tehran | 14,137,000 | 9,150,000 | 1,704 Kmē | Iran | Karaj |
| Chongqing | 12,653,000 | 9,581,000 | 1,580 Kmē | China | |
| Xi'an | 12,211,000 | 9,393,000 | 1,826 Kmē | China | |
| Chennai | 11,570,000 | 4,647,000 | 1,225 Kmē | India | |
| Zhengzhou | 11,068,000 | 6,461,000 | 1,785 Kmē | China | |
| Dongguan | 10,753,000 | 9,645,000 | 1,759 Kmē | China | |
| Wuhan | 10,353,000 | 10,353,000 | 1,821 Kmē | China | |
| Tianjin | 10,047,000 | 10,047,000 | 2,813 Kmē | China | |
| Kuala Lumpur | 9,899,000 | 2,078,000 | 2,163 Kmē | Malaysia | Subang Jaya, Klang, Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya |
| Taipei | 9,866,000 | 2,434,000 | 1,090 Kmē | Taiwan | New Taipei, Taoyuan |
| Hyderabad | 9,797,000 | 6,993,000 | 1,689 Kmē | India | |
| Hangzhou | 9,618,000 | 9,236,000 | 1,344 Kmē | China | |
| Nagoya | 9,617,000 | 2,338,000 | 3,704 Kmē | Japan | Toyota, Gifu, Okazaki, Ichinomiya |
| Riyadh | 8,589,000 | 6,925,000 | 1,673 Kmē | Saudi Arabia | |
| Nanjing | 8,507,000 | 7,520,000 | 1,614 Kmē | China | |
| Shenyang | 8,044,000 | 7,026,000 | 1,551 Kmē | China | Fushun |
| Ahmedabad | 8,006,000 | 5,634,000 | 505 Kmē | India | |
| Hong Kong | 7,511,000 | 7,511,000 | 290 Kmē | China | |
| Bandung | 7,203,000 | 2,444,000 | 487 Kmē | Indonesia | Cimahi |
| Baghdad | 7,160,000 | 7,160,000 | 694 Kmē | Iraq | |
| Yangon | 6,820,000 | 4,585,000 | 666 Kmē | Myanmar | |
| Pune | 6,819,000 | 3,124,000 | 650 Kmē | India | |
| Quanzhou | 6,743,000 | 1,469,000 | 2,248 Kmē | China | Jinjiang, Nan'an, Shishi |
| Amman | 6,694,000 | 4,250,000 | 855 Kmē | Jordan | |
| Surat | 6,601,000 | 4,502,000 | 293 Kmē | India | |
| Surabaya | 6,556,000 | 2,874,000 | 912 Kmē | Indonesia | |
| Qingdao | 6,291,000 | 6,165,000 | 1,759 Kmē | China | |
| Singapore | 6,188,000 | 6,188,000 | 523 Kmē | Singapore | |
| Suzhou | 6,091,000 | 5,893,000 | 1,386 Kmē | China | |
| Kabul | 6,009,000 | 5,333,000 | 272 Kmē | Afghanistan | |
| Hanoi | 5,700,000 | 4,290,000 | 1,256 Kmē | Vietnam | |
| Faisalabad | 5,650,000 | 3,980,000 | 313 Kmē | Pakistan | |
| Jiddah | 5,482,000 | 3,713,000 | 1,261 Kmē | Saudi Arabia | |
| Ankara | 5,359,000 | 5,166,000 | 671 Kmē | Turkey | |
| Mashhad | 5,321,000 | 3,120,000 | 474 Kmē | Iran | |
| Xiamen | 5,253,000 | 4,617,000 | 715 Kmē | China | |
| Rawalpindi | 5,203,000 | 3,560,000 | 772 Kmē | Pakistan | Islamabad |
| Dubai | 5,097,000 | 4,100,000 | 1,507 Kmē | United Arab Emirates | |
| Taiyuan | 5,067,000 | 4,304,000 | 886 Kmē | China | |
| Changsha | 5,065,000 | 5,065,000 | 754 Kmē | China | |
| Hefei | 5,052,000 | 5,052,000 | 894 Kmē | China |
* data on urban agglomerations updated to 2023 (estimates), those on population according to official data or more recent estimates of the national statistical services, when different from urban agglomerations.