Which megacities have you seen?

[TWAK]

Baghdad (8 to 9 million) deserves to be on the list!
Other than there, just LA and NYC.

[JManc]

London
Los Angeles
New York
Paris
Tokyo

[jd3189]

Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New York.

[austlar1]

Buenos Aires
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Mexico City
New York
Paris
Rio
Sao Paulo

That's just nine in total, and I visited the South American cities as a 9 year old in the 1950s. At that point in time, probably only Buenos Aires would have made this list. Peron had just been overthrown! I had some distant relatives living there who were quite glad to see him gone, but my young female cousins missed Evita! They kept scrapbooks with her pictures. I visited Mexico City many times over the years and saw it grow into a mega city. Ditto Los Angeles. I first visited LA in 1949 as a 3 year old. I lived in NY once upon a time, and I've visited London and Paris many times over the years. I regret never making it to Asia, and now I kind of doubt I ever will.

[Centropolis]

Shanghai is the big boi/port i’ve been to. I’ve been to more chaotic smaller cities I guess. (NYC?)

Shanghai definitely was the most 21st Century feeling city with megascrapers punching through the smog deck, weird cultural emulations everywhere you turn, and endless crammed sprawls (I took a car out of town to the country). Most Bladerunner-y.

[AviationGuy]

New York
Los Angeles
London
Mexico City

[Maldive]

Bangalore
Bangkok
Beijing
Bogotá
Buenos Aires #1 on bucket list
Cairo
Chengdu
Chennai
Chongqing
Delhi
Dhaka
Guangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
Hyderabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Karachi
Kinshasa
Kolkata (my wife's parents are from Calcutta... 6 trips to the sub-continent)
Lagos
Lahore
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Mexico City
Moscow
Mumbai
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Rio de Janeiro
São Paulo
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tehran
Tianjin
Tokyo
Xiamen

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by austlar1

Buenos Aires
Lima
London
Los Angeles
Mexico City
New York
Paris
Rio
Sao Paulo

That's just nine in total, and I visited the South American cities as a 9 year old in the 1950s. At that point in time, probably only Buenos Aires would have made this list. Peron had just been overthrown! I had some distant relatives living there who were quite glad to see him gone, but my young female cousins missed Evita! They kept scrapbooks with her pictures. I visited Mexico City many times over the years and saw it grow into a mega city. Ditto Los Angeles. I first visited LA in 1949 as a 3 year old. I lived in NY once upon a time, and I've visited London and Paris many times over the years. I regret never making it to Asia, and now I kind of doubt I ever will.

In the 1950’s, only Tokyo, New York and London were above 10 million. Buenos Aires were around 6 million and was the largest South American city.

[dc_denizen]

London
Los Angeles
New York
Paris

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by mousquet

London
Los Angeles
New York City

Nothing much original or exotic from me...
I've spent my whole life in Paris, so it doesn't really count as anything I would have ever visited as a tourist or for business.

You'd expect to find Hong Kong or Chicago in that kind of lists.
That one may be too short.

The question is "which have you seen?" So that would include Paris for you.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Yuri

In the 1950’s, only Tokyo, New York and London were above 10 million. Buenos Aires were around 6 million and was the largest South American city.

After I asked the question in the OP I thought about how the list would have changed over time. The world only had three megacities in 1950, but Chicago and Buenos Aires were in the top 10 largest cities in the world in 1950. Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Detroit were in the top 20 then. Presently, not even New York makes the global top 10 (comes in at #11).

[giallo]

Bangkok
Beijing
Chengdu
Chongqing
Guangzhou
Jakarta
London
Los Angeles
Paris
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tianjin
Tokyo
Xiamen

[daniel]

London
Paris

… And that's it, other than the airport in Bangkok.

[ChiSoxRox]

Delhi
(Guangzhou - airport)
London
Los Angeles
(Nagoya - train to Kyoto)
New York
Osaka - Kyoto is in the megacity conurbation
Paris
Tokyo

Had plans for Moscow, but that's now indefinitely postponed. Johannesburg is high on my list (South Africa is the closest country to my antipode, so FAI to JNB is a combined 22 hours in the air by the most direct path).

Probably should see Mexico City at some point.

Also the Guangzhou-Los Angeles flight passed directly over Shanghai, so I've seen the Pudong skyline from 40,000 feet.

[vanman]

Bangkok
Ghaungzhou
Jakarta
London
Los Angeles
Manila
New York
Paris
Seoul
Shanghai
Tokyo

[Shawn]

16 for me:

Bangkok
Beijing
Guangzhou
Ho Chi Minh City
Jakarta
London
Los Angeles
Metro Manila
Nagoya
New York
Osaka
Paris
Seoul
Shanghai
Shenzhen
Tokyo (this September will mark half my life living in this city)

[CaliNative]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

Wikipedia lists 42 megacities in the world. How many of them have you seen?

• Bangalore
• Bangkok
• Beijing
• Bogotá
• Buenos Aires
• Cairo
• Chengdu
• Chennai
• Chongqing
• Delhi
• Dhaka
• Guangzhou
• Ho Chi Minh City
• Hyderabad
• Istanbul
• Jakarta
• Johannesburg
• Karachi
• Kinshasa
• Kolkata
• Lagos
• Lahore
• Lima
• London
• Los Angeles
• Metro Manila
• Mexico City
• Moscow
• Mumbai
• Nagoya
• New York
• Osaka
• Paris
• Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo
• Seoul
• Shanghai
• Shenzhen
• Tehran
• Tianjin
• Tokyo
• Xiamen

So far I've seen 10. By end of year I might tick off two additional (Mexico City and Bangkok). And I have at least 10 others on the bucket list. One of those is Tehran, which I am skeptical that I'll ever get the chance to visit.

What defines a "megacity"? 10 million+ people in the metro? Many cities that are not " megacities" punch above their population in importance....Chicago, SF, Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Seattle-Tacoma, Houston, Dallas-Ft.Worth, Atlanta in the U.S. alone. They are economically more important than some of the cities on the "megacity" list.

[Kngkyle]

Only 8, but I got a few "harder" ones out of the way already.

Bangkok
Ho Chi Minh City
London
Manila
Moscow
New York
Paris
Shanghai

[Labtec]

Beijing
Ho Chi Minh City
London
LA
Mexico City
New York City
Osaka
Paris
Seoul
Shanghai
Tokyo

[JACKinBeantown]

I've been to:
Karachi
London
Los Angeles
New York City
Paris

And I've seen Moscow (from an airplane).

Also: I've been to Chicago, which is 9.6 million metro, as well as many other large cities that are a little under 10 million.