The most densely populated city in the world

For a long time, Tokyo, Japan, topped the list, but the UN recently adopted a new calculation methodology, so the leader has changed... Who is it?

According to estimates from the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, published this month in the report "World Urbanization Prospects to 2025," the capital of Indonesia has a population of 42 million.

Jakarta is followed by Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, with a population of 37 million. Tokyo, with a population of 33 million and defined in the study as a metropolitan area encompassing three neighboring prefectures, has fallen to third place. This is in stark contrast to the previous UN report from 2018, which ranked Japan's capital, with a population of 37 million, first.