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The 10/40 Window

Getting to the
core of the core



The 100 Gateway Cities in the 10/40 Window

10/40 NATIONGATEWAY CITY POPULATIONLOCATIONRELIGION
Afghanistan Kabul 2,051,000C AsiaIslam
Albania Tirana 427,000SE EuropeIslam
Algeria Algiers 3,722,000N AfricaIslam
Azerbaijan Baku 1,808,000C AsiaIslam
Bahrain Manama 270,000Mid EastIslam
Bangladesh Dhaka 9,105,000SC AsiaIslam
Benin Cotonou 501,000NC AfricaAnimism
Bhutan Thimphu 121,400SC AsiaBuddhism
Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan 110,000SE AsiaIslam
Burkina Faso Ouagadougou 437,000NW AfricaIslam
Cambodia Phnom Penh 2,827,000SE AsiaBuddhism
Chad N'Djamena 729,000NC AfricaIslam
China Beijing 12,332,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Changchun 2,620,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Chengdu 3,528,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Chongqing 3,646,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Guangzhou 4,184,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Hohhot 1,312,000EC AsiaBuddhism/Islam
China Jinan 3,208,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Lanzhou 1,803,000EC AsiaIslam
China Lhasa 120,000SC AsiaBuddhism
China Nanjing 3,073,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Shanghai 15,112,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Shenyang 5,493,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Taiyuan 2,596,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Tianjin 10,995,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Urumqi 1,724,000C AsiaIslam
China Wuhan 4,556,000EC AsiaAtheism
China Xian 3,417,000EC AsiaAtheism
Djibouti Djibouti 137,000NE AfricaIslam
Egypt Cairo 10,361,000NE AfricaIslam
Eritrea Asmara 1,069,000NE AfricaIslam/Christianity
Ethiopia Addis Ababa 2,419,000NE AfricaChristianity
Gambia Banjul 560,000NW AfricaIslam
Gaza Strip Gaza 1,073,000Mid EastIslam
Guinea Conakry 1,734,000NW AfricaIslam
Guinea-Bissau Bissau 130,000NW AfricaAnimism
India Ahmedabad 4,396,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Amritsar 837,000SC AsiaSikhism
India Calcutta 13,604,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Delhi 10,857,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Hyderabad 4,208,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Jaipur 1,969,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Kanpur 2,378,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Lucknow 1,391,000SC AsiaHinduism/Islam
India Patna 2,209,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Pune 2,971,000SC AsiaHinduism
India Varanasi 1,193,000SC AsiaHinduism
Indonesia Jakarta 11,401,000SE AsiaIslam
Iran Mashhad 2,450,000Mid EastIslam
Iran Tehran 7,509,000Mid EastIslam
Iraq Baghdad 4,511,000Mid EastIslam
Israel Jerusalem 518,000Mid EastJudaism
Israel Tel Aviv 2,092,000Mid EastJudaism
Japan Fukuoko-Kita-Kyushu 4,164,000E AsiaShintoism
Japan Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto 8,563,000E AsiaShintoism
Japan Sapporo 2,300,000 E AsiaShintoism
Japan Tokyo-Yokohama 18,527,000E AsiaShintoism
Jordan Amman 1,273,000Mid EastIslam
Kazakhstan Almaty 1,197,000C AsiaIslam
Korea, North Pyongyang 2,471,000E AsiaAtheism
Kuwait Kuwait City 231,000Mid EastIslam
Kyrgyzstan Bishkek 710,000C AsiaIslam
Laos Vientiane 491,000SE AsiaBuddhism
Lebanon Beirut 1,543,000Mid EastIslam/Christianity
Libya Tripoli 1,828,000N AfricaIslam
Malaysia Kuala Lumpur 2,183,000SE AsiaIslam
Maldives Male 50,000SC AsiaIslam
Mali Bamako 680,000NW AfricaIslam
Mauritania Nouakchott 650,000NW AfricaIslam
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar 600,000C AsiaAnimism/Buddhism
Morocco Casablanca 3,858,000N AfricaIslam
Myanmar (Burma) Yangon 3,905,000SE AsiaBuddhism
Nepal Kathmandu 372,000SC AsiaHinduism
Niger Niamey 430,000NW AfricaIslam
Nigeria Kano 660,000WC AfricaIslam
Oman Muscat 177,000Mid EastIslam
Pakistan Karachi 9,506,000SC AsiaIslam
Pakistan Lahore 4,926,000SC AsiaIslam
Qatar Doha 340,000Mid EastIslam
Saudi Arabia Mecca 884,000Mid EastIslam
Saudi Arabia Riyadh 2,664,000Mid EastIslam
Senegal Dakar 1,847,000NW AfricaIslam
Somalia Mogadishu 849,000E AfricaIslam
Sri Lanka Colombo 2,345,000SC AsiaBuddhism
Sudan Khartoum 2,477,000NE AfricaIslam
Syria Damascus 2,511,000Mid EastIslam
Taiwan Taipei 3,561,000E AsiaBuddhism
Tajikistan Dushanbe 620,000C AsiaIslam
Thailand Bangkok 8,627,000SE AsiaBuddhism
Tunisia Tunis 1,935,000N AfricaIslam
Turkey Ankara 3,071,000Mid EastIslam
Turkey Istanbul 8,143,000Mid EastIslam
Turkey Izmir 2,169,000Mid EastIslam
Turkmenistan Ashkhabad 407,000C AsiaIslam
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi 730,000Mid EastIslam
Uzbekistan Tashkent 2,037,000C AsiaIslam
Vietnam Hanoi 1,260,000SE AsiaBuddhism
Western Sahara El Aaiun 186,000NW AfricaIslam
Yemen Sana'a 503,600Mid EastIslam

1995 population figures are based on United Nations or Rand McNally figures, whichever are larger, with modifications based on in-city verifications. They have been collected by Viv Grigg and Leland Brown of the Urban Leadership Foundation, Pasadena, CA.

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