Largest Cities by Language

For each given language, give the three most populous speaking cities.

Population by Urban Area

Rank determined by total population, not language speaking population

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English
23.7 mil	New York City
15.1 mil	Los Angeles
10.2 mil	London

French
13.3 mil	Kinshasa
10.9 mil	Paris
4.8 mil	Abidjan

Spanish
20 mil	Mexico City
14.1 mil	Buenos Aires
10.8 mil	Lima

Portuguese
20.3 mil	Sao Paulo
11.7 mil	Rio de Janeiro
5.9 mil	Luanda

Dutch
2.8 mil	Rotterdam
2.1 mil	Brussels
1.6 mil	Amsterdam

German
6.7 mil	Ruhr Valley
4.1 mil	Berlin
2.1 mil	Cologne

Italian
5.3 mil	Milan
3.9 mil	Rome
3.7 mil	Naples

Greek
3.5 mil	Athens
0.8 mil	Thessaloniki
0.3 mil	Nicosia

Arabic
15.6 mil	Cairo
6.6 mil	Baghdad
5.6 mil	Riyadh

Swahili
4.7 mil	Nairobi
4.2 mil	Dar es Salaam
2 mil	Lubumbashi

Afrikaans
8.4 mil	Johannesburg
3.8 mil	Cape Town
3.4 mil	Durban

Hindi
25 mil	Delhi
17.7 mil	Mumbai
14.7 mil	Kolkata

Mandarin
23.4 mil	Shanghai
21 mil	Beijing
10.9 mil	Tianjin

Japanese
42.7 mil	Tokyo
17.4 mil	Osaka
10.1 mil	Nagoya

Tagalog
24.1 mil	Manila
0.8 mil	Antipolo
0.3 mil	Calamba

Level 74

May 29, 2016

You have a weird way of writing Rio de Janeiro.

Level 68

May 29, 2016

Thessaloniki is also spelled incorrectly.

Level 72

May 30, 2016

Both fixed

Level 72

Jun 3, 2016

It did not accept riodejaneiro

Level 72

May 29, 2016

Ruhr is not a city...

Level 72

May 30, 2016

Yes, which is why I allow Essen and Dusseldorf as type-ins. Considering more than half of people get it, I don't think it posses a problem.

Level 35

May 30, 2016

It's spelled Thessaloniki.

Level 64

May 17, 2018

Is this by official language or by popular language, because Durban has mostly English speakers, Shanghai has mostly Wu speakers, and Brussels has mostly French speakers

Level 70

Oct 11, 2019

I wouldn't be surprised if Mumbai speaks Hindi but surely Kolkata speaks Bengali?