Historical urban community sizes

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

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[edit] Neolithic settlements

Further information: Neolithic architecture
City 7000 BC
Catalhuyuk 7,000[citation needed]
Jericho 2,000[citation needed]

[edit] Bronze Age

Further information: Cities of the Ancient Near East
City 3100 BC 2600 BC 2000 BC 1600 BC 1200 BC
Ur 65,000 [1]
Harappa 35,000 [2]
Memphis 30,000 [3] 40,000 22,000 [1] 50,000 [1]
Mohenjo-daro 41,250 [2] 20,000 [1]
Babylon 60,000 [1] 50,000
Niniveh 23,000 33,000

[edit] Iron Age

City 650 BC 430 BC 200 BC AD 2 AD 100
Memphis [1] 65,000 100,000
Babylon [1] 60,000 200,000
Niniveh 120,000
Athens [1] 155,000
Alexandria [1] 300,000 250,000
Rome [1] 150,000 450,000
Chang'an / Xi'an 33,000 [1] 400,000 [1] 246,000 [1] 81,000 [1]
Luoyang 100,000 420,000
Pataliputra [1] 100,000 350,000 69,000
Anuradhapura [1] 48,000 68,000 130,000
Peshawar [1] 120,000
Seleucia [1] 200,000 250,000
Antioch [1] 120,000 150,000
Carthage [1] 150,000 100,000

[edit] Middle Ages

City 500 775 900 1000 1250 1500
Rome 100,000 [1] 50,000 50,000
Constantinople / Istanbul [1] 400,000 225,000 300,000 300,000 200,000
Baghdad 1,000,000 [3] 900,000 [1] 125,000 [1]
Córdoba [1] 200,000 450,000
Cairo [1] 135,000 400,000
Chang'an / Xi'an [1] 95,000 600,000 500,000
Hangzhou 320,000 [3] 250,000 [1]
Kyoto [1] 200,000 200,000 300,000
Beijing [3] 672,000
Vijayanagar [1] 500,000
Tenochtitlan [4] 212,500
London 5,000-10,000 50,000-100,000 [2]
Paris [1] 185,000

[edit] Early Modern era

City AD 1600 AD 1700 AD 1800
Istanbul 650,000 700,000 570,000
Paris 325,000 600,000 548,000
London 150,000 550,000 960,000
Moscow 100,000 150,000 200,000
Rome 100,000 163,000
Berlin 12,000 70,000 172,122
Amsterdam 60,000 205,000 205,000
Beijing 706,000 650,000 1,100,000
Naples 430,000

[edit] 20th century

City AD 1900 AD 1950 AD 2000
London 6,506,954 8,196,978 8,250,000
Paris 3,750,000 6,150,000 9,700,000
New York 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
Chicago 1,698,575 4,906,000 8,300,000
Tokyo 1,497,000 7,000,000 28,724,000
Osaka 16,800,000
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

[edit] 21st century

See List of cities by population for current data.

[edit] References

  1. ^ 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 Tertius Chandler. Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census (1987), St. David's University Press (etext.org). ISBN 0-88946-207-0.
  2. ^ a b Encyclopædia Britannica. The Indus Civilization - Population.
  3. ^ a b c d Matt T. Rosenberg, Largest Cities Through History.
  4. ^ Smith (2005), p. 411


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