Largest Non-Capital Cities by Continent

On each continent, which are the largest cities that are not their countries' capitals?
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Asia
45.6
Guangzhou
29.5
Shanghai
24.2
Mumbai
17.7
Osaka
16.9
Karachi
 
 
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North America
22.2
New York
17.7
Los Angeles
9.7
Chicago
7.8
San Francisco
7.6
Boston
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South America
22.1
São Paulo
12.8
Rio de Janeiro
5.0
Belo Horizonte
4.1
Porto Alegre
3.9
Medellín
 
 
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Africa
18.2
Lagos
9.6
Johannesburg
5.9
Dar es Salaam
5.8
Alexandria
5.4
Abidjan
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Europe
9.6
Istanbul
5.6
Saint Petersburg
5.2
Milan
4.7
Barcelona
4.2
Naples
 
 
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Oceania
5.0
Sydney
4.6
Melbourne
3.0
Brisbane
2.0
Perth
1.6
Auckland
+2
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Mar 19, 2018
We've varied some data in citypopulation.de to give (we think) more sensible answers; that website generally includes vast swathes of countryside plus neighboring cities in their calculations. So,(1) we have separated Johannesburg out from Pretoria, thus qualifying it as an answer; (2) the population of the European side only of Istanbul is given; (3) c.de lists Cologne and Dusseldorf as a combined agglomeration which would have qualified it as an answer, but separated out, as we have done, neither city makes it.