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Historical urban community sizes

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Estimated population numbers of historical cities. All numbers are estimates so there are many estimates for the same city.

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[edit] Neolithic settlements

Note: These are not urban cities but village settlements during the Neolithic period.

City 7000 BC
Catalhuyuk 7,000

[edit] Bronze Age

City 3100 BC 2600 BC 2000 BC 1600 BC 1200 BC
Ur 65,000 <ref name=Chandler>Tertius Chandler. Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census (1987), St. David's University Press (etext.org). ISBN 0-8894-6207-0.</ref>
Harappa 35,000 <ref name=Britannica>Encyclopædia Britannica. The Indus Civilization - Population.</ref>
Memphis 30,000 <ref name=Rosenberg>Matt T. Rosenberg, Largest Cities Through History.</ref> 40,000 22,000 <ref name=Chandler/> 50,000 <ref name=Chandler/>
Mohenjo-daro 41,250 <ref name=Britannica/> 20,000 <ref name=Chandler/>
Babylon 60,000 <ref name=Chandler/> 50,000
Niniveh 23,000 33,000

[edit] Iron Age

City 650 BC 430 BC 200 BC AD 2 AD 100
Memphis <ref name=Chandler/> 65,000 100,000
Babylon <ref name=Chandler/> 60,000 200,000
Niniveh 120,000
Athens <ref name=Chandler/> 155,000
Alexandria <ref name=Chandler/> 300,000 250,000
Rome <ref name=Chandler/> 150,000 450,000
Changan 33,000 <ref name=Chandler/> 400,000 <ref name=Chandler/> 246,000 [1] 81,000 <ref name=Chandler/>
Luoyang 200,000-420,000
Pataliputra <ref name=Chandler/> 100,000 350,000 69,000
Anuradhapura <ref name=Chandler/> 48,000 68,000 130,000
Peshawar <ref name=Chandler/> 120,000
Seleucia <ref name=Chandler/> 200,000 250,000
Antioch <ref name=Chandler/> 120,000 150,000
Carthage <ref name=Chandler/> 150,000 100,000

[edit] Middle Ages

City 500 775 900 1000 1500
Rome 100,000 <ref name=Chandler/> 50,000 50,000
Constantinople / Istanbul <ref name=Chandler/> 400,000 225,000 300,000 300,000 200,000
Baghdad 1,000,000 <ref name=Rosenberg/> 900,000 <ref name=Chandler/> 125,000 <ref name=Chandler/>
Córdoba <ref name=Chandler/> 200,000 450,000
Cairo <ref name=Chandler/> 135,000 400,000
Changan <ref name=Chandler/> 95,000 600,000 500,000
Kyoto <ref name=Chandler/> 200,000 200,000 300,000
Beijing <ref name=Rosenberg/> 672,000
Vijayanagar <ref name=Chandler/> 500,000
Tenochtitlan <ref name=Chandler/> 80,000
London 5,000-10,000 50,000-100,000 [2]
Paris <ref name=Chandler/> 185,000

[edit] Early Modern era

City AD 1600 AD 1700 AD 1800
Istanbul 650,000 700,000 570,000
Paris 300,000 532,000 548,000
London 150,000 550,000 861,000
Moscow 100,000 150,000 200,000
Rome 100,000 163,000
Berlin 12,000 70,000 172,122
Beijing 1,100,000
Naples 430,000

[edit] 20th century

City AD 1900 AD 1950 AD 2000
London 6,506,954 8,196,978 7,745,000
Paris 3,750,000 6,200,000 9,800,000
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
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 Ángeles 102,479 3,500,000 11,500,000

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