List of countries by population in 1907

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This is a list of countries by population in 1907, incorporating statistics from the Nuttall Encyclopedia published in 1907. The list includes the populations of all countries, states, counties, and territories listed in the Encyclopedia with an estimated population, as well as cities exceeding 10,000 people and other notable cities. The populations listed here, rounded to the nearest 1,000, represent the best estimate of population by the editors of the Nuttall Encyclopedia.

This list is currently incomplete.

1 World
2 Africa
3 Asia
4 Europe
5 North America
6 Oceania
7 South America

[edit] World

Global population: 1,700,000,000

[edit] Africa

Continental population: over 200,000,000

Angola - 2,400,000

Cape Colony (South Africa) - 1,527,000
- Basutoland - 250,000
- Cape Town - 84,000

Central Provinces - 12,944,000

Congo - 20,000,000 to 40,000,000

Egypt - 8,000,000
- - Alexandria - 230,000
  - Cairo - 400,000
- Fayyum - 160,000

Eritrea - 220,000
Ethiopia - 4,000,000

Egyptian Sudan - 500,000

French Congo - 5,000,000

Madagascar - 2,706,700
- Antananarivo - 100,000

West and Northwest Africa -
- Algeria - 4,000,000
  - Algiers - 75,000
- Bambarra - 2,000,000
- Bambouk - 800,000
- Berbers (race) - 3,000,000
- Bornu - 5,000,000
- Cape Verde - 110,000
- Dahomey (Benin) - 150,000
- Morocco - 4,162,000
  - Fez - 150,000

[edit] Asia

Continental population: about 900,000,000

Afghanistan - 5,000,000
- Badakhshan - 100,000
- Kabul - 50,000

Arabia - 12,000,000
- - Aden - 42,000
- Bahrain - 70,000
- Oman-
  - Barka (Turkish) - 500,000

Asia Minor / Anatolia / Ottoman Empire (*note: both in Asia and Europe)- 28,000,000
- Cyprus - 210,000
- Greece - 2,800,000 to 5,000,000
  - - Athens - 100,000
  - Crete - 295,000
- Syria -
  - Aleppo - 130,000
  - Antioch - 23,000
  - Beirut - 200,000
  - Damascus - 220,000
- Turkey - 12,480,000
  - Adrianople - 60,000
  - Baghdad - 185,000
  - Constantinople - 1,000,000

British India - 263,539,000 to 314,417,000
- - Agra - 168,000
  - Ahmadabad - 148,000
  - Allahabad - 175,000
  - Amritsar - 136,000
  - Bahar - 263,000
  - Bahawalpur - 650,000
  - Bangalore - 180,000
  - Bareilly - 121,000
  - Baroda - 2,415,000
  - Benares - 219,000
  - Berar - 896,000
  - Cawnpore - 188,000
  - Delhi - 192,000
- Assam - 5,500,000
  - Cachar - 313,000
- Bengal - 76,643,000
  - Calcutta - 900,000
  - Patna - 165,000
- Bihar - 24,393,000
- Baluchistan - 200,000 to 400,000
- Bhopal - 952,000
- Bombay Province - 26,960,000
  - Bombay (Mumbai) - 822,000
- Bundelkhand - 2,000,000
- Kashmir - 2,543,000
- Central India - 10,000,000
- Cochin - 722,000
- Coorg - 173,000
- Dacca - 2,420,000
- Ferozepore - 887,000

Burma (Myanmar) - 9,606,000
- Arakan - 671,000

Cambodia - 1,500,000
- Phnom-Penh - 35,000

Ceylon (Sri Lanka) - 3,008,000 to 4,467,000
- Colombo - 126,000

China - 300,000,000 to 400,000,000
- Amoy - 96,000
- Canton (Guangzhou) - 1,800,000
- Foochow (Fuchien province) - 630,000
- Peking (now Beijing) - 500,000

East Indies (Indonesia and Malaysia only)-
- Borneo - 1,800,000
- Celebes - 1,000,000
- Java -
  - Batavia - 105,000
- Malaya - (possibly 4,000,000)
- Moluccas -
  - Amboyna - 238,000
  - Ceram - 195,000

Formosa (Taiwan) - 3,500,000

Iran (Persia) - 7,000,000
- Tehran - 210,000
- Tabriz - 180,000
- Esfahan - 60,000
- Mashhad - 60,000
- Barfrush - 60,000
- Shiraz - 30,000

Japan - 40,719, 000
- Hokkaidō - 314,000
- Honshū - 31,000,000
- Kyūshū - 6,000,000
- Shikoku - 3,000,000

Korea - 17,000,000
- Seoul - 250,000

Philippines - 8,000,000
- Batangas - 33,200
- Cavite - 15,600
- Cebu - 31,100
- Iloilo - 19,000
- Laoag - 34,500
- Malolos - 27,000
- Manila - 250,000
- Nueva Caceres (Naga) - 10,000
- Zamboanga - 21,000

Siam (Thailand) - 7,200,000
- Bangkok - 500,000

Vietnam - 8,100,000
- Annam - 6,000,000
- Cochin-China - 2,034,000

Uzbekistan -
- Bokhara (state) - 1,800,000

[edit] Europe

Continental population: 400,000,000

Andorra - 6,000

Asia Minor / Anatolia / Ottoman Empire (*note: both in Asia and Europe)- 28,000,000
- Cyprus - 21,000
- Greece - 2,800,000 to 5,000,000
  - - Athens - 100,000
  - Crete - 295,000
- Syria -
  - Aleppo - 130,000
  - Antioch - 23,000
  - Beirut - 200,000
  - Damascus - 220,000
- Turkey - 12,480,000
  - Adrianople - 60,000
  - Baghdad - 185,000
  - Constantinople - 1,000,000

Austria / Austria-Hungary - 40,000,000
- Bohemia - 5,843,000
- Bosnia - 1,200,000
- Bukowina - 640,000
- Hungary - 7,457,000
  - Budapest - 506,000
- Carinthia - 361,000
- Carniola - 500,000
- Croatia and Slavonia - 2,201,000
  - Agram - 37,000
- Dalmatia - 527,000

Belgium - 6,136,000
- Antwerp - 240,000
- Bruges - 49,000
- Brussels - 477,000

Bulgaria - 3,154,000
- Sofia - 50,000

Denmark - 2,182,000
- Copenhagen - 380,000

Finland - 2,431,000
- Helsinki - 77,000

France - 38,343,000
- - Amiens - 88,000
  - Aude - 317,000
  - Avignon - 37,000
  - Bordeaux - 256,000
  - Calais - 56,000
- Alsace-Lorraine - 1,640,000
- Brittany - 3,162,000
- Calvados - 428,000
- Charente - 360,000
- Corsica - 288,000
- Côtes-du-Nord - 618,000
- Loire -
  - St. Etienne - 133,000
- Eure - 349,000
- Eure-et-Loir - 285,000
- Finistere - 727,000

Germany - 62,010,000
- - Altona - 148,000
  - Anhalt - 293,000
  - Baden - 1,725,000
  - Bremen - 126,000
  - Chemnitz - 160,000
  - Dresden - 250,000
  - Freiburg - 119,000
- Bavaria - 5,590,000
- Black Forest - 488,000
- Brunswick (duchy) - 404,000
  - Brunswick (city) - 101,000
- Prussia -
  - Aix-La-Chapelle - 103,000
  - Barmen - 116,000
  - Berlin - 1,579,000
  - Bonn - 38,000
  - Brandenburg - 2,542,000
  - Breslau - 335,000
  - Cologne - 282,000
  - Dantzig - 116,000
  - Düsseldorf - 176,000
  - Elberfeld - 126,000
  - Frankfurt - 180,000

Italy - 33,640,700
- - Bologna - 147,000
  - Florence - 137,000
- Apulia - 1,797,000
- Calabria - 1,500,000
- Catania - 123,000

Iceland - 82,500
- Reykjavík - 9000

Netherlands - 5,616,000
- - Amsterdam - 456,000
- Drenthe - 137,000

Norway - 2,324,800
- Christiania - 130,000

Poland - 11,138,700
- Kraków - 75,000

Portugal - 5,758,000
- Alemtejo - 369,000
- Algarve - 240,000
- Azores - 250,000
- Beira - 1,377,000
- Estremadura - 1,111,000
  - Lisbon -

Romania - 6,630,000
- - Bucharest - 220,000
- Dobrudja - 196,000

Russia - 81,052,000
- - Archangel - 19,000
  - Baku - 107,000
- Bessarabia - 1,688,000
- Courland - 637,000
- Crimea - 250,000
- Daghestan - 529,000
- Estonia - 393,000