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Estimated population numbers of historical cities over time. Some cities are estimated.

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Further information: Neolithic architecture
City 7000 BC
Catalhuyuk 7,000[citation needed]
2,500[1]
'Ain Ghazal 2,500[1]
Jericho 2,000[citation needed]

Further information: Cities of the Ancient Near East
City 3100 BC 2600 BC 2000 BC 1600 BC 1200 BC
Uruk 40,000 [2] 80,000 [2]
Ur 65,000 [3]
Lagash 40,000 [2] 30,000 [2]
Harappa 35,000 [4]
Avaris/Pi-Ramses 100,000 [2] 160,000 [2]
Memphis 30,000 [5] 60,000 [2] 22,000 [3] 50,000 [3]
Shahr-i Sokhta 20,000 [1]
Mohenjo-daro 41,250 [4] 20,000 [3]
Babylon 40,000 (Kish) [2] 60,000 [3] 50,000
Niniveh 23,000 33,000
Yinxu (Anyang) 120,000 [2]

City 1000 BC 900 BC 650 BC 430 BC 200 BC AD 2 AD 100
Thebes 120,000[6]
Memphis [3] 100,000[6] 65,000 100,000
Babylon [3] 100,000[6] 60,000 200,000
Niniveh 120,000
Athens [3] 155,000
Alexandria 300,000 [3]

600,000 [2]

 250,000 [3]
Rome 160,000 [3] 800,000 [2] 450,000 [3]

1,000,000 [2]
Haoqing / Chang'an / Xi'an 100,000 [6] 125,000 [2] 33,000 [3] 400,000 [3] 246,000 [1] 81,000 [3]
Luoyang 100,000 [7][8] 100,000 [2] 200,000 [2] 420,000
Linzi 100,000 [2] 200,000 [2]
Xiadu 320,000 [2]
Xianyang 300,000[9]
Pataliputra [3] 100,000 350,000 69,000
Anuradhapura [3] 48,000 68,000 130,000
Peshawar [3] 120,000
Seleucia [3] 200,000 250,000
Antioch [3] 120,000 150,000
Carthage [3] 150,000 100,000

City 500 775 900 1000 1250 1400 1500
Rome 100,000 [3] 50,000 50,000
Constantinople / Istanbul [3] 400,000 225,000 300,000 300,000 100,000 200,000
Baghdad 700,000 [5] 900,000 [3][2] 125,000 [3]

1,200,000 [2]

 150,000 [3]

1,000,000 [2]
Córdoba [3] 200,000 450,000
Cairo [3] 135,000 400,000
Venice 45,000 [10] 120,000 [11] 110,000 [12] 150,000 [13]
Milan 150,000 [14] 125,000 [15] 80,000 [16]
Genoa 80,000 [17] 100,000 [18] 80,000 [19]
Florence 110,000 [20] 45,000 [21] 60,000 [22]
Jiankang 500,000 [2]
Chang'an / Xi'an [3] 400,000[3] 1,000,000[2][3][23] 800,000[2][3]
Hangzhou 1,000,000[2] 1,500,000[2] 250,000[3]
Kaifeng 432,000[3] 1,000,000 [2]
Kyoto [3] 200,000 200,000 300,000
Beijing 672,000 [5]

1,000,000 [2]
Vijayanagar [3] 500,000
Tenochtitlan [24] 212,500
London 5,000-10,000 50,000-100,000 [2]
Paris [3] 275,000 [25] 185,000

City 1600 1700 1800
Ayutthaya 300,000 1,000,000 [2]
Istanbul 650,000 700,000 570,000
Paris 325,000 600,000 548,000
London 150,000 550,000 960,000
Vienna 80,000 100,000 225,000
Madrid 90,000 125,000 180,000
Moscow 100,000 150,000 200,000
Rome 100,000 150,000 [26] 163,000
Venice [27] 180,000 145,000 160,000
Milan [28] 150,000 125,000 160,000
Berlin 12,000 70,000 172,122
Amsterdam 60,000 205,000 205,000
Beijing 706,000 [3]

1,000,000 [2]

 650,000 [3] 1,100,000 [3] [2]
Guangzhou 1,000,000 [2]
Naples 207,000 [29] 430,000
Edo(Tokyo) 1,000,000 (1721 year)[30] 1,100,000[3]
Kyoto 400,000+[31] 377,000 [3]
Osaka 350,000+[31] 383,000 [3]

City 1900 1950 2000
Bangkok 300,000 1,200,000 9,320,000
London 6,506,954 8,196,978 8,250,000
Paris 3,750,000 6,150,000 9,700,000
New York City 4,200,000 12,463,000 17,361,797
Berlin 1,888,848 3,336,026 4,101,000
Vienna 1,769,137 1,616,125 1,550,000
Madrid 575,675 1,553,338 5,285,242
Chicago 1,698,575 4,906,000 8,300,000
Tokyo 1,497,000 13,051,000 34,671,612
Osaka 6,177,000(1920 year) 9,000,000 18,643,915
Saint Petersburg 1,439,400 2,691,000 4,200,000
Moscow 1,175,000 4,847,000 10,126,424
Buenos Aires 950,891 4,618,255 11,460,575
Istanbul 942,900 983,041 10,018,735
Mexico City 400,000 16,400,000
São Paulo 15,500,000
Los Angeles 102,479 3,500,000 11,500,000
Shanghai 5,406,000 [3] 16,738,000

See List of cities by population for current data.

  1. ^ a b c Yuri E. Berezkin: http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/berez.pdf
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af George Modelski, World Cities: –3000 to 2000, Washington DC: FAROS 2000, 2003. ISBN 2-00309-499-4. See also Evolutionary World Politics Homepage.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar Tertius Chandler. Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census (1987), St. David's University Press (etext.org). ISBN 0-88946-207-0.
  4. ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica. The Indus Civilization - Population.
  5. ^ a b c Matt T. Rosenberg, Largest Cities Through History.
  6. ^ a b c d Modelski’s list of the world’s largest cities treats Thebes and Haoqing as the top cities with 100,000 inhabitants (p. 218), though the same list on the next page (p. 219) as well as Table 2 (c) place the population of Thebes at 120,000, while that for Haoqing as well as Memphis and Babylon at 100,000 (pp. 33-34).
  7. ^ Chandler listed Thebes, Haoqing, and Chengzhou (Luoyang) as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd largest cities (p. 460), though Luoyang is supposed to pass 100,000 in 1000 B.C. (p. 541).
  8. ^ When the city first passed 100,000, suggested by Richard Forstall (pp. 541-542).
  9. ^ Cite error 8; No text given.
  10. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  11. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  12. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  13. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  14. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  15. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  16. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  17. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  18. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  19. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  20. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  21. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  22. ^ M. Ginatempo L. Sandri “L’Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI” Le Lettere 1990
  23. ^ Haoqing, the capital of Western Zhou, was located 15 km SW of Chang'an, the capital of Sung and Tang dynasties as well as the present center of Xi'an. Han capital was located 5 km NW of the center of modern Xi'an. All these sites are now within the sub-provincial city of Xi'an.
  24. ^ Smith (2005), p. 411
  25. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  26. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  27. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  28. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  29. ^ P.M. Hoenberg L.Hollen Lees : “The Making of Urban Europe 1000-1950” Harvard Univerity Press 1985
  30. ^ Gordon, Andrew: "A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present". Oxford University Press, 2003. p23. (As of 1721).
  31. ^ a b Sansom, George (1963). "A History of Japan: 1615-1867." Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. p113. Note: These figures exclude military (samurai) population, which could account for a considerable portion of the population.


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