Jakarta and its sprawling environs’ 42mn inhabitants are now the most populous conurbation, according to the UN ...

Lahore, the capital city of the Punjab province, is growing rapidly. Last year alone, the population increased by nearly 3%. That trajectory is expected to continue, with the population projected to ...

A new United Nations assessment of urban populations has upended decades of assumptions about which city is the largest on ...

The world has a new most populous city. Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, tops a ranking that is increasingly dominated by Asia. It edged out Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and Japan's Tokyo to earn the ...