Urban Transport in the OIC Megacities
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Kinki M.M.A. (Osaka) Japan 18389 20123 19976 2 7 13 0.8
Beijing China 6788 18591 24502 24 8 6 3.6
New York – Newark USA 16086 18591 19885 3 9 14 0.2
Al-Qahirah (Cairo) Egypt 9892 18419 24502 11 10 8 2.1
Dhaka Bangladesh 6621 16982 27374 24 11 6 3.6
Karachi Pakistan 7147 16126 24838 22 12 7 3.3
Buenos Aires Argentina 10513 15024 16956 10 13 18 1.3
Kolkata (Calcutta) India 10890 14766 19092 7 14 15 0.8
Istanbul Turkey 6552 13954 16694 25 15 20 2.2
Chongqing China 4011 12916 17380 43 16 17 3.4
Rio de Janeiro Brazil 9697 12825 14174 13 17 23 0.8
Manila Philippines 7973 12764 16756 19 18 19 1.7
Lagos Nigeria 4764 12614 24239 33 19 9 3.9
Los Angeles- Long
Beach- Santa Ana
USA 10883 12308 13257 8 20 26 0.2
Moskva (Moscow)
Russian
Federation
8987 12063 13257 8 20 26 0.2
Guangzhou,
Guangdong
China 3072 11843 17574 63 22 16 5.2
Kinshasa
Democratic
Republic of
the Congo
3686 11116 19996 50 23 12 4.2
Tianjin China 4558 10860 14655 37 24 22 3.4
Paris France 9330 10764 11803 14 25 33 0.7
Shenzhen China 875 10680 12673 308 26 29 1.0
London
United
Kingdom
8054 10189 11467 18 27 36 1.2
Jakarta Indonesia 8175 10176 13812 17 28 25 1.4
Source: United Nations, 2014
2.3. OIC Megacities Examined in This Report
Keeping in mind that there are different definitions across countries, further information on
demographics was sought for two more OIC cities for which the World Urbanization Prospects report
estimates a population below 10 million; Tehran and Lahore. For Tehran the population estimate
provided by the United Nations is 8.4 million and for Lahore is 8.5 million (United Nations, 2014).
According to the Iranian Census report for 2011, the province of Tehran had a population of 12.2
million and made up 21% of the country’s 53.6 million of urban population. This means that in the
province of Tehran 11.2 million people live in an urban environment. In addition, the average
population growth rate for the urban areas of the Tehran province is 1.7% and for the rural areas is -
1.1% (Statistical Centre of Iran, 2011). Based on this information, Tehran is considered a megacity and
will be examined in this report.
Given the fact that latest official population census from Pakistan dates back to 1998, other sources
were used to identify if the city of Lahore and its wider metropolitan are home to more than 10 million
people who therefore affect its transport needs and patterns. None of the sources assessed gives an
estimate of more than 9 million (Shirazi and Kazmi, 2014; reliefweb, 2014) and therefore Lahore is
not considered a megacity and will not be examined in this report.
Therefore, the seven OIC megacities considered in this report are summarized i below: