Most populated cities in the world

Most popualted cities in the world

This map shows the 20 most populated cities in the world.

# Open and unzip the dataset
temp <- tempfile()
url <- "https://simplemaps.com/static/data/world-cities/basic/simplemaps_worldcities_basicv1.73.zip"
download.file(url, temp)
file <- unz(temp, "worldcities.csv")

# Selecting the 20 most populated cities in the wolrd
df <- read.csv(file)
df <- df[1:20, ]

library(leaflet)

## Warning: package 'leaflet' was built under R version 4.0.4

df %>% leaflet() %>% addTiles() %>% 
        addCircles(weight = 1, radius = sqrt(df$population)*50)

## Assuming "lng" and "lat" are longitude and latitude, respectively