List of first-level administrative divisions by population

The following list sorts first-level administrative divisions of countries according to their number of inhabitants. Only administrative units of the highest order are listed. Regions formed for statistical purposes without administrative autonomy, such as the Kantō region in Japan or the eight federal districts of Russia, are not included. Cities, on the other hand, can be counted if they form a first-level administrative unit, such as Shanghai or the capital region of Delhi, which are equivalent to a Chinese province or an Indian state. Administrative units such as Los Angeles County, which has more than ten million inhabitants, are not included in the list as they are already counted as part of the first-level administrative division of California.

The 137 most populous country subdivisions in 2012

List

All first level administrative units with more than five million inhabitants at the last ascertainable date. Also indicated are the administrative center (capital city), the type of administrative unit, the country to which the administrative unit belongs, the land area and the population density per square kilometer of land area.

Name	Capital	Type	Country	Inhabitants	Area km2	People per km2	Year
Uttar Pradesh	Lucknow	State	India	228,959,599	240,928	950	2023[1]
Punjab	Lahore	Province	Pakistan	127,688,922	205,345	622	2022[2]
Guangdong	Guangzhou	Province	China	126,570,000	179,700	704	2022[3]
Maharashtra	Mumbai	State	India	120,837,347	307,713	393	2023[1]
Bihar	Patna	State	India	119,461,013	94,163	1,269	2023[1]
Shandong	Jinan	Province	China	101,630,000	157,100	646	2022[3]
Henan	Zhengzhou	Province	China	98,720,000	167,000	591	2022[3]
West Bengal	Kolkata	State	India	97,694,960	88,752	1,101	2023[1]
Jiangsu	Nanjing	Province	China	85,150,000	102,600	829	2022[3]
Sichuan	Chengdu	Province	China	83,740,000	486,100	172	2022[3]
Madhya Pradesh	Bhopal	State	India	82,342,793	308,252	267	2023[1]
Rajasthan	Jaipur	State	India	78,230,816	342,239	229	2023[1]
Tamil Nadu	Chennai	State	India	76,481,545	130,060	588	2023[1]
Hebei	Shijiazhuang	Province	China	74,200,000	188,800	393	2022[3]
Karnataka	Bengaluru	State	India	66,165,886	191,791	345	2023[1]
Hunan	Changsha	Province	China	66,040,000	211,800	311	2022[3]
Zhejiang	Hangzhou	Province	China	65,770,000	101,800	646	2022[3]
Gujarat	Gandhinagar	State	India	63,907,200	196,244	326	2023[1]
Anhui	Hefei	Province	China	61,270,000	139,400	439	2022[3]
Hubei	Wuhan	Province	China	58,440,000	185,900	314	2022[3]
England	London	Constituent Country	United Kingdom	57,106,398	132,932	429	2022[4]
Sindh	Karachi	Province	Pakistan	55,696,147	140,914	395	2023[2]
Andhra Pradesh	Amaravati	State	India	52,883,163	160,205	330	2023[1]
Guangxi	Nanning	Autonomous regions	China	50,470,000	237,600	212	2022[3]
West Java	Bandung	Province	Indonesia	50,345,200	37,045	1,359	2024[5]
Yunnan	Kunming	Province	China	46,930,000	394,100	116	2022[3]
São Paulo	São Paulo	State	Brazil	46,004,000	248,219	185	2023[6]
Odisha	Bhubaneswar	State	India	45,429,399	155,707	270	2023[1]
Jiangxi	Nanchang	Province	China	45,280,000	166,900	271	2022[3]
Dhaka	Dhaka	Division	Bangladesh	44,215,107	20,551	1,955	2022[7]
Liaoning	Shenyang	Province	China	41,970,000	148,400	282	2022[3]
Fujian	Fuzhou	Province	China	41,880,000	123,900	338	2022[3]
East Java	Surabaya	Province	Indonesia	41,814,500	48,037	870	2024[5]
Oromia	Addis Ababa	Region	Ethiopia	40,884,000	284,538	143	2024[8]
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Peshawar	Province	Pakistan	40,856,097	101,741	349	2023[2]
Shaanxi	Xi'an	Province	China	39,560,000	205,800	192	2022[3]
California	Sacramento	State	United States	39,029,342	403,489	97	2022[9]
Guizhou	Guiyang	Province	China	38,560,000	176,200	218	2022[3]
Telangana	Hyderabad	State	India	38,472,769	114,840	335	2023[1]
Central Java	Semarang	Province	Indonesia	37,892,300	34,337	1,104	2024[5]
Jharkhand	Ranchi	State	India	37,329,128	79,716	468	2023[1]
Kerala	Thiruvanan­thapuram	State	India	35,330,888	38,852	909	2023[1]
Shanxi	Taiyuan	Province	China	34,810,000	156,700	222	2022[3]
Assam	Dispur	State	India	34,586,234	78,438	441	2023[1]
Chittagong	Chittagong	Division	Bangladesh	33,202,326	33,771	979	2022[7]
Amhara	Bahir Dar	Region	Ethiopia	32,456,300	154,709	209	2024[8]
Chongqing	-	Province-level city	China	32,130,000	82,400	389	2022[3]
Heilongjiang	Harbin	Province	China	30,990,000	454,800	68	2022[3]
Texas	Austin	State	United States	30,029,572	676,634	44	2022[9]
Punjab	Chandigarh	State	India	29,611,935	50,362	588	2023[1]
Chhattisgarh	Raipur	State	India	28,566,990	135,192	211	2023[1]
Haryana	Chandigarh	State	India	27,388,008	44,212	619	2023[1]
Xinjiang	Ürümqi	Autonomous regions	China	25,870,000	1,664,900	15	2022[3]
Gansu	Lanzhou	Province	China	24,920,000	425,800	58	2022[3]
Shanghai	-	Province-level city	China	24,750,000	6,340	3,903	2020[3]
Inner Mongolia	Hohhot	Autonomous regions	China	24,010,000	1,183,000	20	2022[3]
Jilin	Changchun	Province	China	23,480,000	187,400	125	2022[3]
Florida	Tallahassee	State	United States	22,244,823	138,905	160	2022[9]
Beijing	-	Province-level city	China	21,840,000	16,411	1,330	2022[3]
Minas Gerais	Belo Horizonte	State	Brazil	21,322,691	586,528	36	2024[10]
Rajshahi	Rajshahi	Division	Bangladesh	20,353,119	18,197	1,121	2022[7]
New York	Albany	State	United States	19,677,151	122,054	161	2022[9]
Delhi	New Delhi	Union territory	India	18,345,784	1,483	12,371	2023[1]
North Rhine-Westphalia	Düsseldorf	State	Germany	18,190,422	34,112	533	2023[11]
Netherlands	Amsterdam	Constituent Country	Kingdom of the Netherlands	18,077,662	41,873	431	2025[12]
Rangpur	Rangpur	Division	Bangladesh	17,610,956	16,317	1,088	2022[7]
Buenos Aires	La Plata	Province	Argentina	17,569,053	307,571	57	2022[13]
Khulna	Khulna	Division	Bangladesh	17,416,645	22,272	782	2022[7]
Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro	State	Brazil	17,219,679	43,696	394	2024[10]
México	Toluca de Lerdo	State	Mexico	16,992,418	22,357	760	2020[14]
Calabarzon	Calamba City	Region	Philippines	16,195,042	15,595	1,038	2020[15]
Ontario	Toronto	Province	Canada	16,182,641	1,076,395	15	2025[16]
Istanbul	Istanbul	Metropolitan municipality	Turkey	15,907,951	5,196	3,062	2022[17]
Gauteng	Johannesburg	Province	South Africa	15,810,400	18,178	870	2021[18]
North Sumatra	Medan	Province	Indonesia	15,588,500	72,461	215	2024[5]
Kano	Kano	State	Nigeria	15,462,200	20,131	768	2022[19]
Balochistan	Quetta	Province	Pakistan	14,894,402	347,190	43	2022[2]
Kinshasa	-	Province	DR Congo	14,565,700	9,965	1,462	2020[20]
Tehran	Tehran	Province	Iran	14,437,000	13,692	1,054	2023[21]
Tokyo	Shinjuku	Prefectures-level Metropolis	Japan	14,254,039	2,194	6,496	2025[22]
Bahia	Salvador da Bahia	State	Brazil	14,141,626	565,733	25	2022[10]
Tianjin	-	Province-level city	China	13,630,000	11,917	975	2022[3]
Gyeonggi-do	Suwon	Province	South Korea	13,511,676	10,170	1,329	2020[23]
Lagos	Ikeja	State	Nigeria	13,491,800	3,345	4,033	2022[19]
Metro Manila	-	Region	Philippines	13,484,462	599	22,525	2020[15]
Bavaria	Munich	State	Germany	13,435,062	70,541	190	2023[11]
Moscow	-	Federal city	Russia	13,010,112	2,511	5,181	2021[24]
Pennsylvania	Harrisburg	State	United States	12,972,008	115,883	112	2022[9]
Illinois	Springfield	State	United States	12,582,032	143,795	88	2022[9]
Banten	Serang	Province	Indonesia	12,431,400	9,353	1,329	2024[5]
Central Luzon	San Fernando	Region	Philippines	12,422,172	21,228	585	2020[15]
Île-de-France	Paris	Region	France	12,262,544	12,011	1,020	2022[25]
Jammu and Kashmir	Srinagar/Jammu	Union territory	India	12,258,433	42,241	290	2011[26]
Mymensingh	Mymensingh	Division	Bangladesh	12,225,498	10,569	1,146	2022[7]
Ohio	Columbus	State	United States	11,756,058	105,831	111	2022[9]
Paraná	Curitiba	State	Brazil	11,623,091	199,298	58	2021[10]
KwaZulu-Natal	Pietermaritzburg	Province	South Africa	11,513,600	94,361	122	2021[18]
Baden-Württemberg	Stuttgart	State	Germany	11,339,260	35,748	317	2023[11]
Uttarakhand	Dehradun	State	India	11,090,425	53,483	207	2023[1]
Sylhet	Sylhet	Division	Bangladesh	11,034,863	12,596	873	2022[7]
Georgia	Atlanta	State	United States	10,912,876	149,170	73	2022[9]
Rio Grande do Sul	Porto Alegre	State	Brazil	10,882,965	281,707	38	2023[10]
North Carolina	Raleigh	State	United States	10,698,973	125,918	85	2022[9]
Jakarta	-	Special Region	Indonesia	10,684,900	661	16,165	2024[5]
Central Ethiopia Regional State	Hosaena	Region	Ethiopia	10,561,000	15,098	699	2024[8]
Katsina	Katsina	State	Nigeria	10,368,500	24,192	429	2022[19]
Hainan	Haikou	Province	China	10,270,000	35,354	290	2022[3]
Cairo	Cairo	Governorate	Egypt	10,423,163	3,085	3,378	2025[27]
Lombardy	Milan	Region	Italy	10,035,481	23,864	420	2025[28]
Michigan	Lansing	State	United States	10,034,113	146,455	68	2022[9]
Giza	Giza	Governorate	Egypt	9,741,416	13,184	738	2025[27]
Lima	Lima	Region	Peru	9,674,800	2,672	3,621	2020[29]
Seoul	–	Special city	South Korea	9,586,195	604	15,839	2020[23]"
Pernambuco	Recife	State	Brazil	9,539,029	98,067	97	2024[10]
South Sulawesi	Makassar	Province	Indonesia	9,463,400	45,331	209	2024[5]
Lampung	Bandar Lampung	Province	Indonesia	9,419,600	33,570	281	2024[5]
New Jersey	Trenton	State	United States	9,261,699	19,048	486	2022[9]
Kanagawa	Yokohama	Prefecture	Japan	9,225,000	2,416	3,818	2024[30]
Mexico City	–	Distrito Federal	Mexico	9,209,944	1,485	6,202	2020[14]
Québec	Québec City	Province	Canada	9,111,629	1,542,056	6	2025[16]
Barisal	Barisal	Division	Bangladesh	9,100,102	13,297	688	2022[7]
Luanda	Luanda	Province	Angola	9,079,800	18,835	482	2022[31]
Kaduna	Kaduna	State	Nigeria	9,032,200	46,053	196	2022[19]
Ho Chi Minh City	Ho Chi Minh City	Province-level municipality	Vietnam	8,993,082	2,061	4,363	2019[32]
South Sumatra	Palembang	Province	Indonesia	8,837,300	86,772	102	2024[5]
Bangkok	–	Province	Thailand	8,833,400	1,569	5,631	2019[33]
Mecca	Mecca	Province	Saudi Arabia	8,803,545	153,128	57	2018[34]
Ceará	Fortaleza	State	Brazil	8,794,957	146,348	60	2023[10]
Baghdad	Baghdad	Governorate	Iraq	8,780,422	204	43,401	2021[35]
Osaka	Osaka	Prefecture	Japan	8,757,000	1,905	4,596	2024[30]
Southern Region	Blantyre	Region	Malawi	8,743,400	31,780	275	2024[36]
Virginia	Richmond	State	United States	8,683,619	102,283	85	2022[9]
Pará	Belém	State	Brazil	8,639,532	1,247,689	7	2023[10]
Central Region	Lilongwe	Region	Malawi	8,533,900	35,592	239	2024[36]
Moscow Oblast	Moscow	Oblast	Russia	8,524,665	44,490	192	2021[24]
New South Wales	Sydney	State	Australia	8,511,151	801,150	10	2021[37]
Andalusia	Sevilla	Autonomous community	Spain	8,484,804	87,598	97	2024[38]
Riyadh	Riyadh	Province	Saudi Arabia	8,446,866	404,240	21	2019[34]
Jalisco	Guadalajara	State	Mexico	8,348,151	78,599	106	2020[14]
Bauchi	Bauchi	State	Nigeria	8,308,800	45,837	181	2022[19]
Yangon	Yangon	Region	Myanmar	8,203,832	10,277	798	2019[39]
Lower Saxony	Hanover	State	Germany	8,161,981	47,710	171	2023[11]
North Kivu	Goma	Province	DR Congo	8,147,400	59,483	137	2020[20]
Sharqia	Zagazig	Governorate	Egypt	8,103,307	4,911	1,650	2025[27]
Central Visayas	Cebu City	Region	Philippines	8,081,988	14,285	566	2020[15]
Catalonia	Barcelona	Autonomous community	Spain	8,067,454	32,113	251	2024[38]
Veracruz	Xalapa	State	Mexico	8,062,579	71,820	112	2020[14]
Hanoi	Hanoi	Province-level municipality	Vietnam	8,053,663	3,359	2,398	2019[32]
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes	Lyon	Region	France	8,042,936	69,711	115	2022[25]
Khartoum	Khartoum	State	Sudan	7,993,900	22,142	361	2018[40]
Oyo	Ibadan	State	Nigeria	7,976,100	28,454	280	2022[19]
Western Visayas	Iloilo City	Region	Philippines	7,954,723	20,042	397	2020[11]
Bogotá	-	Distrito Capital	Colombia	7,937,898	1,636	5,091	2025[41]
Algiers Province	Algiers	Province	Algeria	7,796,923	1,190	6,600	2023[42]
Washington	Olympia	State	United States	7,785,786	172,121	45	2022[9]
South Ethiopia Regional State	Wolaita Sodo	Region	Ethiopia	7,584,741	45,209	167	2024[8]
Hong Kong	–	Special administrative region	China	7,534,200	1,105	6,818	2024[43]
Jigawa	Dutse	State	Nigeria	7,499,100	23,154	323	2022[9]
Rivers	Port Harcourt	State	Nigeria	7,476,800	11,077	675	2022[19]
Aichi	Nagoya	Prefecture	Japan	7,460,000	5,173	1,442	2024[30]
Casablanca-Settat	Casablanca	Region	Morocco	7,408,200	20,190	367	2020[44]
Metropolitana de Santiago	Santiago de Chile	Region	Chile	7,400,741	15,403	480	2024[45]
Selangor	Shah Alam	State	Malaysia	7,363,400	8,104	908	2024[46]
Arizona	Phoenix	State	United States	7,359,197	294,204	25	2022[9]
Goiás	Goiânia	State	Brazil	7,350,480	340,086	21	2024[47]
Saitama	Saitama	Prefecture	Japan	7,332,000	3,797	1,930	2024[30]
Himachal Pradesh	Shimla	State	India	7,316,708	55,673	131	2023[1]
Ningxia	Yinchuan	Province	China	7,280,000	66,400	109	2022[3]
Santa Catarina	Florianópolis	State	Brazil	7,218,704	95,730	75	2021[10]
Razavi Khorasan	Mashhad	Province	Iran	7,167,000	118,851	60	2023[21]
Western Cape	Cape Town	Province	South Africa	7,113,800	129,462	55	2021[18]
Dakahlia	Mansoura	Governorate	Egypt	7,190,280	3,538	2,032	2025[27]
Beheira	Damanhur	Governorate	Egypt	7,069,800	9,826	719	2025[27]
South Kivu	Bukavu	Province	DR Congo	7,066,400	64,791	109	2020[20]
Taiwan	—	Province	Republic of China	7,060,473	25,110	280	2020[48]
Tennessee	Nashville	State	United States	7,051,339	106,800	66	2022[9]
Victoria	Melbourne	State	Australia	7,012,962	227,444	30	2024[37]
Massachusetts	Boston	State	United States	6,981,974	20,205	337	2022[9]
Antioquia	Medellín	Department	Colombia	6,951,825	63,612	104	2025[49]
Kongo Central	Matadi	Province	DR Congo	6,838,500	53,920	109	2020[20]
Tigray	Mekelle	Region	Ethiopia	6,838,000	50,079	136	2024[8]
Indiana	Indianapolis	State	United States	6,833,037	92,791	74	2022[9]
Flanders	Brussels	Autonome Region	Belgium	6,821,770	13,626	500	2024[50]
Niger	Minna	State	Nigeria	6,783,300	76,363	88	2022[9]
Maranhão	São Luís	State	Brazil	6,776,699	331,983	20	2023[10]
Riau	Pekanbaru	Province	Indonesia	6,728,100	89,936	76	2024[5]
Madrid	Madrid	Autonomous community	Spain	6,726,640	8,028	838	2021[38]
Kwilu	Bandundu	Province	DR Congo	6,682,300	78,533	85	2020[20]
Eastern Cape	Bhisho	Province	South Africa	6,676,600	168,966	40	2021[18]
Somali Region	Jijiga	Region	Ethiopia	6,657,000	279,525	23	2024[8]
Nampula	Nampula	Province	Mozambique	6,649,900	81,606	81	2023[51]
Puebla	Puebla	State	Mexico	6,583,278	34,290	192	2020[14]
Minya	al-Minya	Governorate	Egypt	6,552,484	32,279	202	2025[27]
Mandalay	Mandalay	Region	Myanmar	6,477,740	30,888	210	2019[39]
Hesse	Wiesbaden	State	Germany	6,420,729	21,116	304	2023[11]
Sokoto	Sokoto	State	Nigeria	6,391,000	25,973	246	2022[19]
Ogun	Abeokuta	State	Nigeria	6,379,500	16,762	381	2022[19]
Shan State	Taunggyi	State	Myanmar	6,332,188	155,801	41	2019[39]
Abidjan	Abidjan	District	Côte d'Ivoire	6,321,017	2,140	2,945	2021[52]
Ayeyarwady	Pathein	Region	Myanmar	6,272,913	35,032	179	2019[39]
Qalyubiyya	Banha	Governorate	Egypt	6,272,887	1,124	5,580	2025[27]
Chiba	Chiba	Prefecture	Japan	6,251,000	5,157	1,212	2024[30]
Western Province	Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte	Province	Sri Lanka	6,219,000	3,684	1,688	2021[53]
Missouri	Jefferson City	State	United States	6,177,957	178,053	35	2022[9]
Guanajuato	Guanajuato	State	Mexico	6,166,934	30,608	202	2020[14]
Maryland	Annapolis	State	United States	6,164,660	25,147	245	2022[9]
Benue	Makurdi	State	Nigeria	6,141,300	34,059	180	2022[9]
Bagmati	Kathmandu	Province	Nepal	6,116,866	20,300	301	2021[54]
Madhesh	Janakpur	Province	Nepal	6,114,600	9,661	633	2021[54]
Borno	Maiduguri	State	Nigeria	6,111,500	70,898	86	2022[9]
Bicol	Legazpi City	Region	Philippines	6,082,165	18,155	352	2020[15]
Nouvelle-Aquitaine	Bordeaux	Region	France	6,010,289	84,036	71	2022[25]
Hauts-de-France	Lille	Region	France	6,004,947	31,806	188	2022[25]
Zambézia	Quelimane	Province	Mozambique	6,003,900	105,008	57	2023[51]
Denmark	Copenhagen	Constituent Country	Danish Realm	6,001,008	43,094	139	2025[55]
Kabul	Kabul	Province	Afghanistan	5,966,395	4,524	1,319	2024[56]
Addis Ababa	—	Chartered city	Ethiopia	5,956,680	527	11,302	2025[8]
Anambra	Awka	State	Nigeria	5,953,500	4,844	1,229	2022[9]
Qinghai	Xining	Province	China	5,950,000	722,300	8	2022[3]
Sohag	Sohag	Governorate	Egypt	5,947,983	11,022	539	2025[27]
Occitania	Toulouse	Region	France	5,933,185	72,724	81	2022[25]
Limpopo	Polokwane	Province	South Africa	5,926,700	125,754	47	2021[18]
Wisconsin	Madison	State	United States	5,892,539	140,269	42	2022[9]
Colorado	Denver	State	United States	5,839,926	268,428	22	2022[30]
Krasnodarski Krai	Krasnodar	Krai	Russia	5,838,273	76,000	76	2021[57]
West Sumatra	Padang	Province	Indonesia	5,836,200	42,120	139	2024[5]
Zamfara	Gusau	State	Nigeria	5,833,500	39,762	147	2022[9]
Nuevo León	Monterrey	State	Mexico	5,784,442	64,220	90	2020[14]
Ankara	Ankara	Metropolitan municipality	Turkey	5,782,285	24,521	236	2022[17]
British Columbia	Victoria	Province	Canada	5,722,318	944,735	6	2025[16]
Haut-Katanga	Lubumbashi	Province	DR Congo	5,718,800	132,425	43	2020[20]
Minnesota	Saint Paul	State	United States	5,717,184	206,236	27	2022[9]
Lazio	Rome	Region	Italy	5,710,272	17,242	331	2025[28]
West Kalimantan	Pontianak	Province	Indonesia	5,695,500	147,307	39	2024[5]
East Nusa Tenggara	Kupang	Province	Indonesia	5,656,000	46,447	122	2024[5]
West Nusa Tenggara	Mataram	Province	Indonesia	5,646,000	19,676	287	2024[5]
Delta	Asaba	State	Nigeria	5,636,100	17,698	319	2022[9]
Alexandria	Alexandria	Governorate	Egypt	5,633,287	2,300	2,449	2025[27]
Saint Petersburg	–	Federal city	Russia	5,601,911	1,400	4,001	2021[58]
Queensland	Brisbane	State	Australia	5,608,666	1,723,030	3	2024[37]
Campania	Naples	Region	Italy	5,575,025	13,671	407	2025[28]
Kebbi	Birnin Kebbi	State	Nigeria	5,563,900	36,800	151	2022[9]
Grand Est	Strasbourg	Region	France	5,556,219	57,441	96	2022[25]
Aceh	Banda Aceh	Province	Indonesia	5,554,800	56,835	98	2024[5]
Sagaing	Sagaing	Region	Myanmar	5,550,389	93,702	59	2019[39]
Gharbia	Tanta	Governorate	Egypt	5,545,813	1,942	2,855	2025[27]
Chiapas	Tuxtla Gutiérrez	State	Mexico	5,543,828	73,289	76	2020[14]
Mazovia	Warsaw	Voivodeship	Poland	5,514,699	35,560	155	2021[59]
Isfahan	Isfahan	Province	Iran	5,480,000	107,018	51	2023[21]
Imo	Owerri	State	Nigeria	5,459,300	5,530	987	2022[9]
Greater Accra Region	Accra	Region	Ghana	5,455,692	3,245	1,681	2021[60]
Ashanti	Kumasi	Region	Ghana	5,440,463	24,389	223	2021[60]
Scotland	Edinburgh	Constituent Country	United Kingdom	5,439,842	80,231	67	2022[4]
Dar es Salaam	Dar es Salaam	Region	Tanzania	5,383,728	1,393	3,865	2022[61]
Hyōgo	Kōbe	Prefecture	Japan	5,337,000	8,401	635	2024[30]
Ondo	Akure	State	Nigeria	5,316,600	14,606	364	2022[9]
Sidama Region	Hawassa	Region	Ethiopia	5,301,868	12,000	441	2024[8]
Ilocos	San Fernando	Region	Philippines	5,301,139	12,304	431	2020[15]
South Carolina	Columbia	State	United States	5,282,634	77,866	68	2022[30]
Asyut	Asyut	Governorate	Egypt	5,251,664	25,926	202	2025[27]
Davao	Davao City	Region	Philippines	5,243,536	18,809	279	2020[15]
Fars	Schiras	Province	Iran	5,171,000	122,608	42	2023[21]
Lumbini	Deukhuri	Province	Nepal	5,122,078	19,707	260	2021[54]
Gezira	Wad Madani	State	Sudan	5,096,900	23,373	218	2018[40]
Fukuoka	Fukuoka	Prefecture	Japan	5,092,000	4,986	1,021	2024[30]
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur	Marseille	Region	France	5,081,101	31,400	161	2022[25]
Alabama	Montgomery	State	United States	5,074,296	131,175	39	2022[30]
Chuzestan	Ahvaz	Province	Iran	5,074,000	64,055	79	2023[21]
Valencian Community	Valencia	Autonomous community	Spain	5,067,911	23,255	218	2021[38]
Hokkaidō	Sapporo	Prefecture	Japan	5,043,000	83,424	60	2024[30]
Eastern Province	Dammam	Province	Saudi Arabia	5,028,753	672,522	7	2018[34]
Northern Mindanao	Cagayan de Oro	Region	Philippines	5,022,768	17,487	287	2020[15]