List of largest cities throughout history

The following is a table of the largest cities by estimated population in history. Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times.

Year	Morris (2010)			Modelski (2003)			Chandler (1987)			Chandler & Fox (1974)
Year	population	city or urban	location in present country	population	city or urban	location in present country	population	city or urban	location in present country	population	city or urban	location in present country
8000 BC	500	Mureybet Mureybet Mureybet is a tell, or ancient settlement mound, located on the west bank of the Euphrates in Ar-Raqqah Governorate, northern Syria. The site was excavated between 1964 and 1974 and has since disappeared under the rising waters of Lake Assad...	Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
7000 BC	1,000	Beidha Beidha (archaeological site) Beidha is a major Neolithic archaeological site a few kilometres north of Petra near Siq al-Barid in Jordan.It was first excavated by Diana Kirkbride in 1957 and later by Brian Byrd...	Jordan Jordan Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...	1-2,000	Jericho Jericho Jericho ; is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate and has a population of more than 20,000. Situated well below sea level on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea, Jericho is the lowest permanently...	West Bank West Bank The West Bank ) of the Jordan River is the landlocked geographical eastern part of the Palestinian territories located in Western Asia. To the west, north, and south, the West Bank shares borders with the state of Israel. To the east, across the Jordan River, lies the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan...
		Basta	Jordan
		Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük Çatalhöyük was a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7500 BCE to 5700 BCE...	Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
6500 BC				5-10,000	Çatalhöyük	Turkey
6000 BC	3,000	Çatalhöyük	Turkey
5000 BC	4,000	Tell Brak	Syria
4000 BC	5,000	Uruk Uruk Uruk was an ancient city of Sumer and later Babylonia, situated east of the present bed of the Euphrates river, on the ancient dry former channel of the Euphrates River, some 30 km east of modern As-Samawah, Al-Muthannā, Iraq.Uruk gave its name to the Uruk...	Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....	4,000	Eridu Eridu Eridu is an ancient Sumerian city in what is now Tell Abu Shahrain, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. Eridu was considered the earliest city in southern Mesopotamia, and is one of the oldest cities in the world...	Iraq Iraq Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
4000 BC	5,000	Tell Brak	Syria	4,000
3800 to 3700 BC				< 10,000	Dobrovody Dobrovody Dobrovody is a village located within the Uman Raion of the Cherkasy Oblast , Ukraine.Dobrovody is a 4th millennium BC site of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture, with up to 10,000 citizens, and was one of the largest cities in the world in its day. The total area is about 2.5 km2...	Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
3700 BC				6-10,000	Eridu	Iraq
3600 to 3500 BC				< 10,000	Maydanets Maydanets Maydanets , Ukraine, also referred to as Maydanets'ke or Maydanetske or Maydanetskoya , is located within the Talne Raion of the Cherkasy Oblast , about driving distance south of Kiev. It is a small farming community located primarily on a hill overlooking the Tal'ianki River...	Ukraine
3600 to 3500 BC				< 10,000	Talianki Talianki Talianki is a village in Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine, close to the city of Talne and about south of Kiev. It is a small farming community located among large open fields that cover the plateau above the nearby Tal'ianki River that winds its way through this area in a narrow riverine valley...	Ukraine
3500 BC	8,000	Uruk	Iraq	14,000	Uruk	Iraq				20,000	Abydos Abydos, Egypt Abydos is one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, and also of the eight Upper Nome, of which it was the capital city. It is located about 11 kilometres west of the Nile at latitude 26° 10' N, near the modern Egyptian towns of el-'Araba el Madfuna and al-Balyana...	Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
		Susa Susa Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran. It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris River, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers....	Iran Iran Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
		Tell Brak	Syria
3300 BC				40,000	Uruk	Iraq					Abydos	Egypt
3200 BC							20,000	Abydos	Egypt		Abydos	Egypt
3100 BC							20,000	Memphis Memphis, Egypt Memphis was the ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, the first nome of Lower Egypt. Its ruins are located near the town of Helwan, south of Cairo.According to legend related by Manetho, the city was founded by the pharaoh Menes around 3000 BC. Capital of Egypt during the Old Kingdom, it remained an...	Egypt	20,000	Memphis	Egypt
3000 BC	45,000	Uruk	Iraq	40,000	Uruk	Iraq	30,000	Memphis	Egypt	40,000	Memphis	Egypt
2800 BC				80,000	Uruk	Iraq		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2500 BC	50,000	Uruk	Iraq	60,000	Lagash Lagash Lagash is located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and east of Uruk, about east of the modern town of Ash Shatrah. Lagash was one of the oldest cities of the Ancient Near East...	Iraq		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2500 BC	50,000	Uruk	Iraq	20,000	Nippur	Iraq		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2400 BC				50,000	Mari Mari, Syria Mari was an ancient Sumerian and Amorite city, located 11 kilometers north-west of the modern town of Abu Kamal on the western bank of Euphrates river, some 120 km southeast of Deir ez-Zor, Syria...	Syria		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
				40,000	Umma Umma Umma was an ancient city in Sumer. Note that there is some scholarly debateabout the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site.-History:...	Iraq
					Girsu	Iraq
					Mohenjo-daro Mohenjo-daro Mohenjo-daro is an archeological site situated in what is now the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Built around 2600 BC, it was one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, existing at the same time as the...	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
2300 BC				80,000	Girsu	Iraq		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2300 BC				50,000	Mari	Syria		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2250 BC	35,000	Akkad Akkad The Akkadian Empire was an empire centered in the city of Akkad and its surrounding region in Mesopotamia....	Iraq				> 30,000	Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2250 BC	35,000	Memphis	Egypt				> 30,000	Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
2240 BC								Akkad	Iraq		Akkad	Iraq
2200 BC				50,000	Girsu	Iraq		Akkad	Iraq		Akkad	Iraq
2100 BC				100,000	Ur Ur Ur was an important city-state in ancient Sumer located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate...	Iraq		Akkad	Iraq	100,000	Girsu	Iraq
2075 BC							50,000	Girsu	Iraq		Girsu	Iraq
2059 BC								Girsu	Iraq		Thebes Thebes, Egypt Thebes is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile within the modern city of Luxor. The Theban Necropolis is situated nearby on the west bank of the Nile.-History:...	Egypt
2030 BC								Ur	Iraq		Thebes	Egypt
2000 BC	60,000	Memphis	Egypt	40,000	Isin Isin Isin was an ancient city-state of lower Mesopotamia about 20 miles south of Nippur at the site of modern Ishan al-Bahriyat in Iraq's Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate.-History:...	Iraq	65,000	Ur	Iraq		Thebes	Egypt
		Memphis	Egypt		Larsa Larsa Larsa was an important city of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu. It lies some 25 km southeast of Uruk in Iraq's Dhi Qar Governorate, near the east bank of the Shatt-en-Nil canal at the site of the modern settlement Tell as-Senkereh or Sankarah.-History:According to...	Iraq
		Ur	Iraq		Girsu	Iraq
1991 BC								Ur	Iraq	100,000	Memphis	Egypt
1980 BC								Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1900 BC				40,000	Isin	Iraq		Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1900 BC				40,000	Larsa	Iraq		Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1800 BC				60,000	Mari	Syria	> 25,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1800 BC				60,000	Mari	Syria	65,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1770 BC							60,000	Babylon Babylon Babylon was an Akkadian city-state of ancient Mesopotamia, the remains of which are found in present-day Al Hillah, Babil Province, Iraq, about 85 kilometers south of Baghdad...	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq
1750 BC	65,000	Babylon	Iraq
1700 BC				60,000	Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq
1670 BC								Avaris Avaris Avaris , capital of Egypt under the Hyksos , was located near modern Tell el-Dab'a in the northeastern region of the Nile Delta, at the juncture of the 8th, 14th, 19th and 20th Nomes...	Egypt		Babylon	Iraq
1650 BC							100,000	Avaris	Egypt		Babylon	Iraq
1600 BC				50-100,000	Avaris	Egypt	100,000	Avaris	Egypt		Babylon	Iraq
1595 BC								Avaris	Egypt		Avaris	Egypt
1580 BC								Avaris	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1557 BC								Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1500 BC	75,000	Uruk	Iraq	60,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1500 BC	75,000	Thebes	Egypt	60,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1400 BC	80,000	Thebes	Egypt	80,000	Thebes	Egypt		Thebes	Egypt		Thebes	Egypt
1375 BC							100,000	Thebes	Egypt		Thebes	Egypt
1360 BC							80,000	Thebes	Egypt	100,000	Thebes	Egypt
1350 BC								Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1300 BC	80,000	Thebes	Egypt	120,000	Yinxu Yinxu Yinxu is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty. The capital served 255 years for 12 kings in 8 generations.Rediscovered in 1899, it is one of the oldest and largest archeological sites in China and is one of the historical capitals of China and a UNESCO World Heritage Site... (Anyang Anyang Anyang is a prefecture-level city in Henan province, People's Republic of China. The northernmost city in Henan, Anyang borders Puyang to the east, Hebi and Xinxiang to the south, and the provinces of Shanxi and Hebei to its west and north respectively.... )	China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...		Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1205 BC								Memphis	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1200 BC	80,000	Babylon	Iraq	160,000	Pi-Ramses	Egypt	50,000	Memphis	Egypt	> 50,000	Memphis	Egypt
1200 BC	80,000	Thebes	Egypt	160,000	Pi-Ramses	Egypt	50,000	Memphis	Egypt	> 50,000	Memphis	Egypt
1188 BC								Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1184 BC							120,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
1100 BC	50,000	Memphis	Egypt	120,000	Pi-Ramses	Egypt		Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
		Thebes	Egypt
		Tanis Tanis Tanis was the capital of the 21st and 22nd dynasties of ancient Egypt, and is now an archaeological temple site. The word Tanis can also refer to:*Tanis, a little girl mummy in Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School...	Egypt
		Yinxu (Anyang)	China
1000 BC	50,000	Thebes	Egypt	120,000	Thebes	Egypt	> 50,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
	50,000	Thebes	Egypt	120,000	Thebes	Egypt	60,000	Thebes	Egypt
	35,000	Haojing Haojing This article is about the ancient Zhou Dynasty capital, for Haojing'ao see MacauHaojing was one of the two settlements comprising the capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty , the other of which was Fēngjīng . Together they were known as Fēnghào and stood on opposite banks of the Feng River with... (Xi'an Xi'an Xi'an is the capital of the Shaanxi province, and a sub-provincial city in the People's Republic of China. One of the oldest cities in China, with more than 3,100 years of history, the city was known as Chang'an before the Ming Dynasty... )	China	100,000	Haojing (Xi'an)	China	> 50,000	Haojing (Xi'an)	China
			China		Haojing (Xi'an)	China	55,000	Haojing (Xi'an)	China
		Chengzhou (Luoyang Luoyang Luoyang is a prefecture-level city in western Henan province of Central China. It borders the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to the east, Pingdingshan to the southeast, Nanyang to the south, Sanmenxia to the west, Jiyuan to the north, and Jiaozuo to the northeast.Situated on the central plain of... )	China		Memphis	Egypt	50,000	Chengzhou (Luoyang)	China
			China		Babylon	Iraq	100,000	Chengzhou (Luoyang)	China
900 BC	50,000	Thebes	Egypt	125,000	Haojing	China		Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
800 BC	75,000	Nimrud Nimrud Nimrud is an ancient Assyrian city located south of Nineveh on the river Tigris in modern Ninawa Governorate Iraq. In ancient times the city was called Kalḫu. The Arabs called the city Nimrud after the Biblical Nimrod, a legendary hunting hero .The city covered an area of around . Ruins of the city... (Calah)	Iraq	125,000	Haojing	China	> 50,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
800 BC	75,000		Iraq	125,000	Haojing	China	60,000	Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
700 BC	100,000	Nineveh Nineveh Nineveh was an ancient Assyrian city on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and capital of the Neo Assyrian Empire. Its ruins are across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, in the Ninawa Governorate of Iraq....	Iraq	100,000	Thebes	Egypt		Thebes	Egypt		Memphis	Egypt
					Memphis	Egypt
					Nineveh	Iraq
					Babylon	Iraq
					Luoyi (Luoyang)	China
					Linzi Linzi Linzi was the capital of Qi from 859 BC to 221 BC during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period in China. The ruins of the city lie in modern day Linzi District, Shandong, China. The city was one of the largest and richest in China during the Spring and Autumn Period...	China
668 BC							100,000	Nineveh	Iraq		Nineveh	Iraq
650 BC							120,000	Nineveh	Iraq	120,000	Nineveh	Iraq
612 BC								Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq
600 BC	125,000	Babylon	Iraq	200,000	Babylon	Iraq	100,000	Babylon	Iraq	200,000	Babylon	Iraq
600 BC	125,000	Babylon	Iraq	200,000	Luoyi	China	100,000	Babylon	Iraq	200,000	Babylon	Iraq
562 BC							200,000	Babylon	Iraq	200,000	Babylon	Iraq
500 BC	150,000	Babylon	Iraq	200,000	Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq
					Luoyi	China
					Linzi	China
479 BC								Babylon	Iraq		Sravasti Sravasti Śrāvastī or Sāvatthī , a city of ancient India, was one of the six largest cities in India during Gautama Buddha's lifetime. The city was located in the fertile Gangetic plains in the present day Gonda District of Uttar Pradesh near Balrampur some 120 km north of Lucknow...	India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
460 BC								Babylon	Iraq		Rajagriha (Rajgir Rajgir Rajgir is a city and a notified area in Nalanda district in the Indian state of Bihar. The city of Rajgir was the first capital of the kingdom of Magadha, a state that would eventually evolve into the Mauryan Empire. Its date of origin is unknown, although ceramics dating to about 1000 BC have... )	India
440 BC								Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq
430 BC							200,000	Babylon	Iraq	250,000	Babylon	Iraq
400 BC	150,000	Babylon	Iraq	320,000	Xiadu Xiadu Xiadu was the lower capital of Yan during the Warring States Period. The remains of the city are located in Yixian County, Baoding City, Hebei, China. At 30 km², Xiadu is the largest excavated city from the Warring States Period....	China		Babylon	Iraq		Babylon	Iraq
320 BC							> 300,000	Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria is the second-largest city of Egypt, with a population of 4.1 million, extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the north central part of the country; it is also the largest city lying directly on the Mediterranean coast. It is Egypt's largest seaport, serving...	Egypt	> 300,000	Alexandria	Egypt
300 BC	150,000	Babylon	Iraq	500,000	Carthage Carthage Carthage , implying it was a 'new Tyre') is a major urban centre that has existed for nearly 3,000 years on the Gulf of Tunis, developing from a Phoenician colony of the 1st millennium BC...	Tunisia Tunisia Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...		Pataliputra (Patna Patna Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world... )	India		Pataliputra	India
300 BC	150,000	Alexandria	Egypt	500,000					India		Pataliputra	India
220 BC								Pataliputra	India		Xianyang Xianyang Xianyang is a former capital of China in Shaanxi province, on the Wei River, a few kilometers upstream from Xi'an. It has an area of...	China
206 BC								Pataliputra	India		Pataliputra	India
200 BC	300,000	Alexandria	Egypt	600,000	Alexandria	Egypt	350,000	Pataliputra	India	350,000	Pataliputra	India
200 BC	300,000	Alexandria	Egypt	600,000	Alexandria	Egypt	400,000	Chang'an Chang'an Chang'an is an ancient capital of more than ten dynasties in Chinese history, today known as Xi'an. Chang'an literally means "Perpetual Peace" in Classical Chinese. During the short-lived Xin Dynasty, the city was renamed "Constant Peace" ; yet after its fall in AD 23, the old name was restored... (Xi'an)	China	350,000	Pataliputra	India
195 BC								Chang'an	China		Pataliputra	India
190 BC								Chang'an	China		Chang'an	China
170 BC								Chang'an	China		Seleucia Seleucia Seleucia was the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and one of the great cities of antiquity standing in Mesopotamia, on the Tigris River.Seleucia may refer to:...	Iraq
160 BC								Chang'an	China		Chang'an	China
100 BC	400,000	Alexandria	Egypt	1,000,000	Alexandria	Egypt		Chang'an	China		Chang'an	China
100 BC	400,000	Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...	Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	1,000,000	Alexandria	Egypt		Chang'an	China		Chang'an	China
25 BC								Rome	Italy		Chang'an	China
AD 1	1,000,000	Rome	Italy	800,000	Rome	Italy		Rome	Italy		Rome	Italy
100	1,000,000	Rome	Italy	1,000,000	Rome	Italy	450,000	Rome	Italy	650,000	Rome	Italy
180							600,000	Rome	Italy	800,000	Rome	Italy
200	1,000,000	Rome	Italy	1,200,000	Rome	Italy		Rome	Italy		Rome	Italy
280							500,000	Rome	Italy	650,000	Rome	Italy
300	800,000	Rome	Italy	1,000,000	Rome	Italy		Rome	Italy		Rome	Italy
340								Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople was the capital of the Roman, Eastern Roman, Byzantine, Latin, and Ottoman Empires. Throughout most of the Middle Ages, Constantinople was Europe's largest and wealthiest city.-Names:... (Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and... )	Turkey		Rome	Italy
350								Constantinople	Turkey		Constantinople	Turkey
361							300,000	Constantinople	Turkey	350,000	Constantinople	Turkey
400	800,000	Rome	Italy	800,000	Rome	Italy		Constantinople	Turkey		Constantinople	Turkey
410								Constantinople	Turkey		Pataliputra	India
450								Constantinople	Turkey	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
500	450,000	Constantinople	Turkey	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey	400,000	Constantinople	Turkey	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
					Jiankang Jiankang Jiankang was the capital city of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Southern Dynasties. Its walls are extant ruins in the modern municipal region of Nanjing.-History:... (Nanjing Nanjing ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions... )	China
					Luoyang	China
570								Ctesiphon Ctesiphon Ctesiphon, the imperial capital of the Parthian Arsacids and of the Persian Sassanids, was one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia.The ruins of the city are located on the east bank of the Tigris, across the river from the Hellenistic city of Seleucia...	Iraq	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
575							500,000	Ctesiphon	Iraq	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
600	600,000	Daxing (Chang'an)	China	600,000	Constantinople	Turkey	500,000	Ctesiphon	Iraq	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
622							500,000	Ctesiphon	Iraq	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
637							400,000	Chang'an	China	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
650								Chang'an	China	500,000	Chang'an	China
700	1,000,000	Chang'an	China	1,000,000	Chang'an	China	800,000	Chang'an	China	1,000,000	Chang'an	China
750							800,000	Chang'an	China	> 1,000,000	Chang'an	China
775							600,000	Baghdad Baghdad Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...	Iraq		Baghdad	Iraq
800	1,000,000	Chang'an	China	800,000	Chang'an	China	700,000	Baghdad	Iraq	800,000	Chang'an	China
800	1,000,000	Chang'an	China	800,000	Chang'an	China	700,000	Baghdad	Iraq	700,000	Baghdad	Iraq
833							900,000	Baghdad	Iraq	900,000	Baghdad	Iraq
900	750,000	Chang'an	China	900,000	Baghdad	Iraq	900,000	Baghdad	Iraq	900,000	Baghdad	Iraq
925							1,100,000	Baghdad	Iraq		Baghdad	Iraq
932							1,100,000	Baghdad	Iraq	1,100,000	Baghdad	Iraq
935							450,000	Cordova Córdoba, Spain -History:The first trace of human presence in the area are remains of a Neanderthal Man, dating to c. 32,000 BC. In the 8th century BC, during the ancient Tartessos period, a pre-urban settlement existed. The population gradually learned copper and silver metallurgy...	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	450,000	Cordova	Spain
1000	1,000,000	Kaifeng Kaifeng Kaifeng , known previously by several names , is a prefecture-level city in east-central Henan province, Central China. Nearly 5 million people live in the metropolitan area...	China	1,200,000	Baghdad	Iraq	450,000	Cordova	Spain	450,000	Cordova	Spain
1013							400,000	Kaifeng	China	450,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1050							400,000	Kaifeng	China	500,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1071							400,000	Kaifeng	China	400,000	Kaifeng	China
1100	1,000,000	Kaifeng	China	1,200,000	Baghdad	Iraq	442,000	Kaifeng	China	442,000	Kaifeng	China
1102							442,000	Kaifeng	China	442,000	Kaifeng	China
1126							420,000	Kaifeng	China	420,000	Kaifeng	China
1127							200,000	Constantinople	Turkey	300,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1145							200,000	Merv Merv Merv , formerly Achaemenid Satrapy of Margiana, and later Alexandria and Antiochia in Margiana , was a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road, located near today's Mary in Turkmenistan. Several cities have existed on this site, which is significant for the interchange of...	Turkmenistan Turkmenistan Turkmenistan , formerly also known as Turkmenia is one of the Turkic states in Central Asia. Until 1991, it was a constituent republic of the Soviet Union, the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic . Turkmenistan is one of the six independent Turkic states...	300,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1150							200,000	Merv	Turkmenistan	300,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1153							200,000	Constantinople	Turkey	300,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1160							200,000	Constantinople	Turkey	250,000	Fez Fes, Morocco Fes or Fez is the second largest city of Morocco, after Casablanca, with a population of approximately 1 million . It is the capital of the Fès-Boulemane region....	Morocco Morocco Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
1170							200,000	Fez	Morocco	250,000	Fez	Morocco
1180							200,000	Hangzhou Hangzhou Hangzhou , formerly transliterated as Hangchow, is the capital and largest city of Zhejiang Province in Eastern China. Governed as a sub-provincial city, and as of 2010, its entire administrative division or prefecture had a registered population of 8.7 million people...	China	250,000	Polonnaruwa Polonnaruwa The second most ancient of Sri Lanka's kingdoms, was first declared the capital city by King Vijayabahu I, who defeated the Chola invaders in 1070 AD to reunite the country once more under a local leader.-History:While Vijayabahu's victory and shifting of Kingdoms to the more strategic Polonnaruwa...	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
1200	1,000,000	Hangzhou	China	1,000,000	Baghdad	Iraq	255,000	Hangzhou	China	255,000	Hangzhou	China
					Hangzhou	China
					Kaifeng	China
1201							260,000	Hangzhou	China	260,000	Hangzhou	China
1250							320,000	Hangzhou	China	320,000	Hangzhou	China
1273							432,000	Hangzhou	China	432,000	Hangzhou	China
1300	800,000	Hangzhou	China	1,500,000	Hangzhou	China	432,000	Hangzhou	China	432,000	Hangzhou	China
1315							432,000	Cairo Cairo Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life...	Egypt		Hangzhou	China
1325							500,000	Cairo	Egypt	500,000	Cairo	Egypt
1348							432,000	Hangzhou	China	500,000	Cairo	Egypt
1350							432,000	Hangzhou	China	450,000	Cairo	Egypt
1358								Jinling (Nanjing)	China		Cairo	Egypt
1391							473,000	Jinling	China		Cairo	Egypt
1400	500,000	Jinling (Nanjing)	China	1,000,000	Jinling (Nanjing)	China	487,000	Jinling	China	473,000	Jinling (Nanjing)	China
1420								Jinling	China	450,000	Beijing	China
1425								Beijing	China		Beijing	China
1450							600,000	Beijing	China	600,000	Beijing	China
1492							669,000	Beijing	China	669,000	Beijing	China
1500	678,000	Beijing	China	1,000,000	Beijing	China	672,000	Beijing	China	672,000	Beijing	China
1550							690,000	Beijing	China	690,000	Beijing	China
1575							706,000	Beijing	China	706,000	Beijing	China
1579							706,000	Beijing	China	706,000	Beijing	China
1600	700,000	Beijing	China	1,000,000	Beijing	China	706,000	Beijing	China	706,000	Beijing	China
1635								Beijing	China	660,000	Agra Agra Agra a.k.a. Akbarabad is a city on the banks of the river Yamuna in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, India, west of state capital, Lucknow and south from national capital New Delhi. With a population of 1,686,976 , it is one of the most populous cities in Uttar Pradesh and the 19th most...	India
1637								Beijing	China	700,000	Istanbul	Turkey
1650							700,000	Istanbul	Turkey	700,000	Istanbul	Turkey
1670								Istanbul	Turkey	500,000	Delhi Delhi Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...	India
1675							750,000	Istanbul	Turkey	500,000	Delhi	India
1684								Istanbul	Turkey	540,000	Paris Paris Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...	France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
1685								Istanbul	Turkey		Istanbul	Turkey
1690							700-800,000	Istanbul	Turkey	700-800,000	Istanbul	Turkey
1700	650,000	Beijing	China	1,000,000	Ayutthaya Ayutthaya (city) Ayutthaya city is the capital of Ayutthaya province in Thailand. Located in the valley of the Chao Phraya River. The city was founded in 1350 by King U Thong, who went there to escape a smallpox outbreak in Lop Buri and proclaimed it the capital of his kingdom, often referred to as the Ayutthaya...	Thailand Thailand Thailand , officially the Kingdom of Thailand , formerly known as Siam , is a country located at the centre of the Indochina peninsula and Southeast Asia. It is bordered to the north by Burma and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the...	700,000	Istanbul	Turkey	700,000	Istanbul	Turkey
1700	650,000	Beijing	China	1,000,000			700,000	Istanbul	Turkey	600-700,000	Beijing	China
1710								Beijing	China		Beijing	China
1750							900,000	Beijing	China	900,000	Beijing	China
1775							1,000,000	Beijing	China		Beijing	China
1800	1,100,000	Beijing	China	1,100,000	Beijing	China	1,100,000	Beijing	China	1,100,000	Beijing	China
1821							1,300,000	Beijing	China	1,300,000	Beijing	China
1825							1,350,000	Beijing	China	1,350,000	Beijing	China
1825							1,335,000	London Greater London Greater London is the top-level administrative division of England covering London. It was created in 1965 and spans the City of London, including Middle Temple and Inner Temple, and the 32 London boroughs. This territory is coterminate with the London Government Office Region and the London... (urban area)	United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	1,335,000	London (urban area)	United Kingdom
1841							1,948,000	London	United Kingdom	2,235,000	London	United Kingdom
1850							2,320,000	London	United Kingdom	2,320,000	London	United Kingdom
1851							2,362,000	London	United Kingdom	2,362,000	London	United Kingdom
1861							2,803,000	London	United Kingdom		London	United Kingdom
1875							4,241,000	London	United Kingdom	4,241,000	London	United Kingdom
1900	6,600,000	London	United Kingdom	6,500,000	London	United Kingdom	6,480,000	London	United Kingdom	6,480,000	London	United Kingdom
1914							7,419,000	London	United Kingdom		London	United Kingdom
1925							7,774,000	New York New York metropolitan area The New York metropolitan area, also known as Greater New York, or the Tri-State area, is the region that composes of New York City and the surrounding region... (urban area)	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	7,774,000	New York (urban area)	United States
1936							10,150,000	New York	United States		New York	United States
1950							12,463,000	New York	United States	12,500,000	New York	United States
1962							15,755,000	New York	United States		New York	United States
1965							15,000,000	Tokyo Greater Tokyo Area The Greater Tokyo Area is a large metropolitan area in Kantō region, Japan, consisting of most of the prefectures of Chiba, Kanagawa, Saitama, and Tokyo . In Japanese, it is referred to by various terms, including the , , and others.... (urban area)	Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	15,000,000	Tokyo (urban area)	Japan
1968							20,500,000	Tokyo	Japan	20,500,000	Tokyo	Japan
1970							20,450,000	Tokyo	Japan	21,000,000	Tokyo	Japan
1975							20,500,000	Tokyo	Japan
2000	26,400,000	Tokyo	Japan

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