{"id":75358,"date":"2025-11-27T12:07:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/jakarta-overtakes-tokyo-most-populous-city-world"},"modified":"2025-11-27T12:07:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T03:07:43","slug":"jakarta-overtakes-tokyo-as-worlds-most-populous-city-according-to-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75358","title":{"rendered":"Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world\u2019s most populous city, according to UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities<\/p>\n<p>Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world\u2019s most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacities.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian capital is home to 42 million people, according to an estimate by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/population\">population<\/a> division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs in its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/pd\/sites\/www.un.org.development.desa.pd\/files\/undesa_pd_2025_wup2025_summary_of_results.pdf\">World Urbanisation Prospects<\/a> 2025 report published this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/27\/jakarta-overtakes-tokyo-most-populous-city-world\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rankings were changed after the UN used new criteria to give a more accurate picture of the rapid urbanisation driving the growth of megacitiesJakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world\u2019s most populous city, according to a UN study that uses new crit&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,217,156,88,706],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cities","category-indonesia","category-japan","category-population"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75359,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75358\/revisions\/75359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}