Statistics for All Megacities By Etymology

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Etymology	Population	Agglomeration	% Correct
Meaning "Saint Paul" in Portuguese.	22.4 m	São Paulo	96%
Originally called Edo, meaning "estuary", with the word "capital" being later appended.	40.4 m	Tokyo	95%
Meaning "The Angels" in Spanish.	17.7 m	Los Angeles	93%
Named in honor of the Duke of York.	22.1 m	New York City	93%
Named after the "Guang Province", which itself means "broad" or "expansive".	46.7 m	Guangzhou	92%
Meaning "Good Airs" (or less literally, Fair Winds).	16.8 m	Buenos Aires	91%
Named after Mexico.	23.0 m	Mexico City	91%
Derived from the Moskva River.	17.3 m	Moscow	89%
Named after someone named Johannes, though nobody knows which one.	13.9 m	Johannesburg	88%
Unknown. Probably corrupted from the Latinization of Brittonic Londinion.	14.8 m	London	88%
Meaning "River of January" in Portuguese.	13.2 m	Rio de Janeiro	88%
Named after the patron goddess of the Koli community Mumbadevi.	25.1 m	Mumbai	86%
Hanzi characters translate to "Northern Capital".	19.8 m	Beijing	84%
Meaning, "Where indigo is found" in Tagalog.	25.7 m	Manila	84%
Named after an indigenous tribe. the Parisii.	11.4 m	Paris	83%
Derived from its official Arabic name, which means "The Vanquisher" in reference to Mars rising when the city was founded.	21.0 m	Cairo	81%
Meaning "lakes" in Portuguese.	19.4 m	Lagos	81%
Hanzi characters directly translate to "upon the sea".	33.6 m	Shanghai	81%
Unknown. Potentially named after an ancient king, meaning "loose" in reference to Chandragupta II's iron pillar, meaning "eminence", named after a currency, or meaning "gateway".	30.3 m	Delhi	74%
Descended from the word Seorabeol, which might mean "metal/gold city".	24.8 m	Seoul	74%
Corruption of a settlement's name which translated to "Victorious Deed" or "Complete Victory", referring to a victory by Fatahilla against the Portuguese.	31.3 m	Jakarta	68%
Unknown. Potentially named after a type of tree, a musical instrument, or the hidden Hindu Goddess Dhakeshwari.	20.2 m	Dhaka	67%
Derived from an old Greek phrase meaning "to the city".	16.4 m	Istanbul	66%
Corrupted from Limaq, meaning "Talker" or "Speaker".	10.1 m	Lima	63%
Derived from a Telugu ruler, Damarla Mudirasa Chennappa Nayakudu.	11.3 m	Chennai	60%
Unknown. Potentially means "island village on a stream", or a "village on a stream" and makok, a plant that bears olive-like fruit.	18.8 m	Bangkok	59%
Unknown. Potentially meaning "Field of Kali", derived from Kalighat, derived from a word meaning "Flat Area", two words meaning "dug canal", or named in reference to regional production of quicklime and coir.	16.8 m	Kolkata	57%
Unknown. Potentially meaning "The Abode of Tir/Mercury", "a warm place", or "bottom of the mountain slope".	15.3 m	Tehran	52%
Meaning "Haydar's City" or "Lion City", named for Caliph Ali Ibn Abi Talib, also known as Haydar.	10.2 m	Hyderabad	51%
Corrupted from an older name meaning "City of Guards" in Old Kannada.	12.2 m	Bengaluru	47%
Means "Large hill/slope".	17.7 m	Osaka	47%
Hanzi characters translate to "Heavenly Ford".	12.7 m	Tianjin	47%
Corruption of the original name, in honor of the father of a famed deadly crocodile slayer.	17.8 m	Karachi	46%
Named for a nearby village, whose name refers to marsh.	12.4 m	Kinshasa	46%
Unknown. Potentially corrupted from a name derived from the Ravi River, possibly meaning "Blacksmith", or maybe "City of Lava".	13.0 m	Lahore	42%
Named for a nearby castle, whose Hanzi characters translate to "Mansion Gate" or "Gate of China".	10.0 m	Xiamen	40%
Potentially meaning "Peaceful".	10.5 m	Nagoya	37%