Historical urban community sizes

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{{distinguish| List of largest cities throughout history}}

{{use mdy dates|cs1-dates=ly|date=July 2021}}

This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.

Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times. Estimating population sizes before censuses were conducted is a difficult task.{{cite web|last=Rosenberg|first=Matt|title=Largest Cities Throughout History|url=https://www.thoughtco.com/largest-cities-throughout-history-4068071|website=ThoughtCo|date=November 4, 2019|access-date=December 28, 2020|archive-date=2016-08-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818124242/http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm|url-status=live}}

Neolithic settlements

{{Further|Neolithic architecture}}

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Town

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |7000 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |6000 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |5000 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |4000 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |3800 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |3700 BC

'Ain Ghazal

|Jordan

|2,501{{cite book |last=Berezkin |first=Yuri E |chapter=Apa Tanis and the Ancient Near East - an alternative model of complex society |title=The Development of Urbanism from a Global Perspective |chapter-url=http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/berez.pdf |access-date=August 13, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070609202551/http://www.arkeologi.uu.se/afr/projects/BOOK/berez.pdf |archive-date=June 9, 2007}}

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Beidha

|Jordan

|1,000{{cite web |url=http://www.ianmorris.org/docs/social-development.pdf |title=Social Development |first=Ian |last=Morris |publisher=Ianmorris.org |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726164950/http://www.ianmorris.org/docs/social-development.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-26 |url-status=dead }}

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Çatalhöyük

|Turkey

|1,000–10,000{{cite web |url=http://bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s09.htm |title=Jericho and Catal Huyuk |publisher=Bruceowen.com |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2015-12-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231222351/http://bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s09.htm |url-status=live }}

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Choirokoitia{{cite web|url=http://www.worldheritagesite.org/sites/choirokoitia.html |title=Choirokoitia |website=World Heritage Site |access-date=2014-04-26 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140403152522/http://worldheritagesite.org/sites/choirokoitia.html |archive-date=2014-04-03 }}{{Google books |id=6BKlnz-TResC |page=25 |title=Cyprus}}{{Google books |id=RpWQKnu97BcC |page=137 |title=Travel Cyprus: Illustrated Guide, Greek and Turkish Phrasebooks & Maps}}{{Google books |id=lnCbDAacAfsC |page=161 |title=Frommer's Cyprus With Your Family: From the Best Family Beaches to Mountain Villages}}{{Google books|page=23 |title=Cyprus}}{{Google books |id=dKcQPBV0UdQC |page=8 |title=The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean}}{{Google books |id=vohWAAAAMAAJ |page= |title=The New Encyclopaedia Britannica: Macropaedia}}

|Cyprus

|300–600

|2,000

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Lepenski Vir

|Serbia

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|150–1,000{{Google books |id=pwUoAQAAIAAJ |page=27 |title=Historisk-filosofiske Skrifter, Bind 21}}{{Google books |id=LaASAQAAIAAJ |page=163 |title=Anthropology for Archaeologists: An Introduction}}{{Google books |id=m9IdAwAAQBAJ |page=63 |title=The Oneness Revealed}}{{Google books |id=M4lSAwAAQBAJ |page=523 |title=The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers}}{{Google books |id=h0BIkXNZJZsC |page=123 |title=Europe Before Rome: A Site-by-Site Tour of the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages}}{{Google books |id=NrLq1EBd9jAC |page=177 |title=Elder Gods of Antiquity: First Journal of the Ancient Ones}}

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Nea Nikomedeia

|Greece

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|500–700{{Google books |id=gcGSn0eVs2oC |page=182 |title=European Prehistory: A Survey}}

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Okoliste

|Bosnia and Herzegovina

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|1,000–3,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iXpwCwAAQBAJ|title=Trypillia Mega-Sites and European Prehistory: 4100-3400 BCE|first1=Johannes|last1=Müller|first2=Knut |last2=Rassmann|first3=Mykhailo|last3=Videiko|date=22 January 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-24792-0}}

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Vinča-Belo Brdo

|Serbia

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|2,000–2,500{{cite web |url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/rise-metallurgy-eurasia |title=Rise of Metallurgy in Eurasia |publisher=Ucl.ac.uk |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225062108/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/rise-metallurgy-eurasia |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.duncancaldwell.com/Site/Prehistory_Shows.html |title=Archaeological Exhibitions |publisher=Duncancaldwell.com |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225061634/http://www.duncancaldwell.com/Site/Prehistory_Shows.html |url-status=live }}

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Sesklo

|Greece

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|1,000–5,000{{Google books |id=rs_A5w2QWa4C |page=58 |title=The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th Century A.D.}}{{Google books |id=rg4rTjo0OCQC |page=146 |title=Greece Before History: An Archaeological Companion and Guide}}{{Google books |id=0HrHXbVNuvgC |page=90 |title=Early Aegean Warrior 5000–1450 BC}}{{cite web|title=Lesson 2: The Neolithic Cultures of Thessaly, Crete, and the Cyclades |publisher=Trustees of Dartmouth College |url=http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/2.html |access-date=August 26, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809130609/http://projectsx.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/lessons/les/2.html |archive-date=August 9, 2011}}

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Dobrovody

|Ukraine

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|16,000{{cite web |url=http://www.chronikajournal.com/resources/Harper.pdf |title=The effect of climatic variability on population dynamics of the CucuteniTripolye cultural complex and the rise of the Western Tripolye giant-settlements |author=Thomas K Harper |publisher=IChronikajournal.com |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2021-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415173702/http://www.chronikajournal.com/resources/Harper.pdf |url-status=live }}

|10,000–16,000Л.Панченко. Паланка (історико-краєзнавчий нарис). Умань. 2003 {{ISBN|966-7659-30-5}}Шмаглій М. М., Дудкін В. П. Зіньковський К. В. Про комплексне вивчення трипільських поселень. Археологія No. 10. Київ. 1973А.І.Кузьмінський, Г. В. Суховершко, В. Я. Чудновський. Наш рідний край. Хрестоматія з історії Черкащини. Київ. 1993

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Fedorovka

|Ukraine

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|6,000

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Mehrgarh

|Pakistan

|1,000–10,000{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wNlsRZh3rwgC&q=mehrgarh+estimated+population&pg=PA146 |title=The Search of the Cradle of Civilization: New Light on Ancient India |author1=Georg Feuerstein |author2=Subhash Kak |author3=David Frawley |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=9788120820371 |year=2005 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishers |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020907/https://books.google.com/books?id=wNlsRZh3rwgC&q=mehrgarh%20estimated%20population&pg=PA146 |url-status=live }}

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Maydanets

|Ukraine

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|10,000

|10,000–46,000{{efn|Dobrovody and Maydanets Suggested to be housing up to 10,000 people in Modelski's text (pp. 24–25), The estimate is based on the author's personal communication with Mikhail Videiko, Institute of Archaeology, Kyiv, October 2002 (p. 75). The previous estimates by S. I. Kruts for Maydanets and Talianki are 8,000 (1,575 housed within 270 ha) and 14,000 (2,700 houses within 450 ha), respectively (Pitskhelauri, K. N., and Chernykh, E. N. Eds., Kavkaz v sisteme paleometallicheskikh kultur Evrazii, Metsniereba, Tbilisi, 1989, pp. 146–156.).{{full citation needed|date=July 2021|reason=refers to "Modelski's text", no cite found.}}}}{{cite web |title=High precision Tripolye settlement plans, demographic estimations and settlement organization |url=https://www.academia.edu/8641305 |access-date=2016-06-15 |archive-date=2017-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113190128/http://www.academia.edu/8641305/High_precision_Tripolye_settlement_plans_demographic_estimations_and_settlement_organization |url-status=live }}

Nebelivka

|Ukraine

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|17,000

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Talianki

|Ukraine

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|15,000–25,000–30,000{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pA1-3KfkpuwC&pg=PA44 |title=The Making of Bronze Age Eurasia |author=Philip L. Kohl |date=2007-01-22 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=978-1-139-46199-3 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020913/https://books.google.com/books?id=pA1-3KfkpuwC&pg=PA44 |url-status=live }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yglkwD7pKV8C&pg=PA78 |title=The History of Central Asia: The Age of the Steppe Warriors|author= Christoph Baumer |date= 2012-12-11|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-78076-060-5}}

|10,000–15,000{{cite web|title=The Trypillian culture. Introduction |work=Trypillian Civilization 5400 - 2750 BC |url=http://www.trypillia.com/articles/eng/se1.shtml |access-date=January 5, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071020121740/http://trypillia.com/articles/eng/se1.shtml |archive-date=October 20, 2007}}{{cite web |title=Trypilia |date=2003-12-09 |website=The Anthropogene |url=http://webpages.charter.net/anthropogene/arc_vol1_is9.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071008225652/http://webpages.charter.net/anthropogene/arc_vol1_is9.html |archive-date=October 8, 2007}}{{Unreliable source?|date=May 2008}}

Tell Brak

|Syria

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|4,000

|5,000

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Uruk

|Iraq

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|5,000

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Bronze Age

{{Further|Cities of the Ancient Near East}}

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Table 1: 3700–2600 BC

!City

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |3700 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |3400 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |3100 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |2800 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |2600 BC

Adab

|Iraq

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|11,000

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Anshan

|Iran

|

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|10,000

|10,000

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Bad-tibira

|Iraq

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|16,000

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Eridu

|Iraq

| 6,000–10,000{{cite web|last=Modelski |first=George |date=July 10, 1997 |title=CITIES OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: AN INVENTORY (-3500 TO -1200) |work=The Evolutionary World Politics Homepage |url=https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WCITI2.html |access-date=July 17, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705111744/http://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/WCITI2.html |archive-date=July 5, 2008}}

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Habuba Kabira

|Syria

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|6,000–8,000

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Harappa

|Pakistan

|

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|35,000{{cite encyclopedia |last=Alam |first=Muzaffar |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-46825/India |title=India | history – geography |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2008-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080620051807/http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-46825/India |url-status=live }}

Kish

|Iraq

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| 40,000

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Lagash

|Iraq

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|40,000

Larak/Larsa

|Iraq

|10,000

|10,000

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Manika, Greece{{cite book |author=Adamantios Sampson |date=1986 |editor=Robert Laffineur |chapter=The Early Helladic graves of Manika: Contribution to the socioeconomic conditions of the Early Bronze Age |pages=20–28 |title=Les coutumes funeraires en Egee a l' age du bronze |publisher=Université de Liège |url=https://www.academia.edu/35362033 |access-date=2021-07-20 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051959/http://www2.ulg.ac.be/archgrec/IMG/aegeum/aegaeum1(pdf)/Sampson.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CgTvAAAAMAAJ&q=bronze+age+Manika+80+hectares |title=Old World Archaeology Newsletter |access-date=2015-06-20 |year=1988 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020921/https://books.google.com/books?id=CgTvAAAAMAAJ&q=bronze+age+Manika+80+hectares |url-status=live }}{{cite book |year=2001 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ9_AAAAMAAJ&q=bronze+age+Manika++7000+inhabitants |title=Anthropologie |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020901/https://books.google.com/books?id=iQ9_AAAAMAAJ&q=bronze+age+Manika++7000+inhabitants |url-status=live }}{{full citation needed|date=July 2021}}{{cite book |publisher=Elanders Gotab |place=Stockholm |year=2007 |isbn=978-91-554-6782-1 |url=http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:169578/FULLTEXT01.pdf |title=Thinking the Bronze Age |author=Erika Weiberg |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2016-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506021335/http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:169578/FULLTEXT01.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0dZurnUo6hgC&pg=PA107 |title=The Complete Archaeology of Greece: From Hunter-Gatherers to the 20th ... |author=John Bintliff |date=2012-03-19 |publisher=Wiley |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=978-1-118-25519-3 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020916/https://books.google.com/books?id=0dZurnUo6hgC&pg=PA107 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=Archaeological Site of Manika |website=Greek Travel Pages |url=http://www.gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?id=14792 |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924041618/http://www.gtp.gr/TDirectoryDetails.asp?id=14792 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |title=Social Complexity and Population: A Study in the Early Bronze Age Aegean |last=MacSweeney |first=Naoise |journal=Papers from the Institute of Archaeology |date=2004-11-15 |volume=15 |doi=10.5334/pia.225 |doi-access=free |hdl=2381/27925 |hdl-access=free }}

|Greece

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|6,000–15,000

|6,000–15,000

Memphis

|Egypt

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|30,000

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Mohenjo-daro

|Pakistan

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|41,250

Nekhen

|Egypt

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|5,000–10,000

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Nippur

|Iraq

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|13,000

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Shahr-i Sokhta

|Iran

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| 20,000

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Shuruppak

|Iraq

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| 20,000

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Suheri

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| 13,000

| 10,000

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Susa

|Iran

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| 8,000

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Tell Brak

|Syria

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|8,000

|22,000

|20,000

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Thebes, Greece

|Greece

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|4,000–6,000

Umma

|Iraq

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|26,000

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Ur

|Iraq

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|6,000

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Uruk

|Iraq

|8,000
14,000

|20,000

|40,000{{cite book

|last=Modelski

|first=George

|author-link=George Modelski

|date=2003

|title=World Cities: -3000 to 2000

|location=Washington, D.C.

|publisher=Faros 2000

|isbn=9780967623016

}}–50,000

|80,000

|80,000

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|+ Table 2: 2500–1200 BC

!City

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |2500 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |2300 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |2000 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |1800 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |1600 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |1360 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |1200 BC

Athens{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9DBeI_KhYFQC&pg=PA111 |title=The Philistines and Aegean Migration at the End of the Late Bronze Age|author=Assaf Yasur-Landau |date=2010-04-26 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-139-48587-6}}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=74JI2UlcU8AC&pg=PA706 |title=International Dictionary of Historic Places: Southern Europe |author1=Trudy Ring |author2=Robert M. Salkin |author3=Sharon La Boda |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=978-1-884964-02-2 |year=1994 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020906/https://books.google.com/books?id=74JI2UlcU8AC&pg=PA706 |url-status=live }}

|Greece

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|10,000

|10,000–15,000

Akrotiri (prehistoric city){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lXqFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |title=Atlantis Destroyed|author=Rodney Castleden |date=2002-01-04|publisher=Routledge |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-134-70879-6}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtIVAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA118 |title=Egypt, Greece, and Rome: Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean |author=Charles Freeman |date=2014-03-13 |publisher=OUP Oxford |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=978-0-19-150970-4}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPns3CGhDFQC&pg=PA80 |title=Island Colonization: The Origin and Development of Island Communities|author=Ian Thornton |date=2007-03-19 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-139-46231-0}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dil67ESF6EC&pg=PA311 |title=A Nuclear Engineer in the Twentieth Century|author=Robert Kupp |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-4120-5003-6 |year=2005|publisher=Trafford }}{{cite web |title=Fast Facts |publisher=Canadian Museum of History |url=http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/greece/gr2040e.shtml |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225062147/https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/greece/gr2040e.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cF_wAAAAMAAJ&q=akrotiri+with+a+population+30,000|title=Volcanoes: A Planetary Perspective|author=Peter Francis|access-date=2015-06-20|year=1993|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-854452-4|archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020913/https://books.google.com/books?id=cF_wAAAAMAAJ&q=akrotiri%20with%20a%20population%2030%2C000|url-status=live}}{{cite book |title=The Truth of the Life of this World|author=Hârun Yahya|year=2000 |publisher=Global Yayincilik |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvRu8SyCAwUC&pg=PA110|access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-897940-99-0}}{{cite book |author=Iain Stewart |date=2012-08-31 |title=Journeys From The Centre Of The Earth |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-1-4481-4942-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q7iBdZYa9BgC&pg=PA198|access-date=2015-06-20}}

|Greece

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|8,000–30,000

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Adab

|Iraq

|13,000

|10,000

|10,000

|10,000

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Akkad

|Iraq

|

|36,000

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Amarna

|Egypt

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Anshan

|Iran

|10,000

|10,000

|10,000

|10,000

|

|

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Avaris/Pi-Ramses

|Egypt

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|160,000

Babylon

|Iraq

|

|

|

|65,000

|

|

|80,000

Dur-Kurigalzu

|Iraq

|

|

|

|

|

|

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Ebla

|Syria

|

|30,000

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|

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Erlitou

|China

|

|

|

|24,000–35,000

|

|

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Harappa

|Pakistan

|

|10,000

|

|

|

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Hattusa

|Turkey

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000

|40,000

Hazor

|Israel

|

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|

|

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Heliopolis

|Egypt

|

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|

|

|

|

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Heracleopolis

|Egypt

|

|

|

|

|

|

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Isin

|Iraq

|

|

|40,000

|20,000

|

|

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Kerma

|Sudan

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kesh

|Iraq

|11,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kish

|Iraq

| 25,000

| 10,000

| 40,000

|

|

|

|

Knossos{{cite book|title=The Knossos Labyrinth: A New View of the 'Palace of Minos' at Knossos |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l6rRTWv8zY0C&pg=PT48 |author=Rodney Castleden |date= 2012-10-12 | publisher=Routledge |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=978-1-134-96785-8}}{{cite book|author=Rodney Castleden |date=2002-01-04 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g8eIAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 |title=Minoan Life in Bronze Age Crete|publisher=Routledge |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-134-88064-5}}{{cite book |author1=Trudy Ring |author2=Noelle Watson |author3=Paul Schellinger |date=2013-11-05 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qcr9AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA172 |title=Southern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places |publisher=Routledge |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-1-134-25958-8}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6NMeQ_z3SsC&pg=PA77 |title=Thirst: For Water and Power in the Ancient World |author=Steven Mithen |date=2012-11-26 |publisher=Harvard University Press |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-0-674-07219-0}}{{cite book|author=John William Humphrey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b76EBrop0sEC&pg=PA56 |title=Ancient Technology |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-0-313-32763-6 |year=2006| publisher=Greenwood Press }}{{cite book |title=World System History: The Social Science of Long-Term Change |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qi6CAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT355 |date=2002-09-26 |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=1-134-57144-5 |last1=Denemark |first1=Robert A. |last2=Friedman |first2=Jonathan |last3=Gills |first3=Barry K. |last4=Modelski |first4=George | publisher=Routledge }}{{cite book|title=Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P43ChiFyVVEC&pg=PA37 |author=Glenn Storey |date=2006-04-30 | publisher=University of Alabama Press |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-0-8173-5246-2}}{{cite journal |first=Ian |last=Morris |date=December 2005 |url=https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/morris/120510.pdf |title=The collapse and regeneration of complex society in Greece, 1500-500 BC |journal=Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2016-03-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014336/https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/morris/120510.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite book |author=Rodney Castleden |year=2001 |title=Minoans: Life in bronze Age Crete |publisher=Taylor & Francis e-Library |isbn=0-203-13581-4 |via=Academia.edu |url=https://www.academia.edu/40631253 |access-date=2021-07-20 |archive-date=2021-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720194914/https://www.academia.edu/40631253 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/3118298 |title=Concepts in Urbanization and Early State Formation: The Case of Minoan Crete, v8 |author=Donald Jones |via=Academia.edu |access-date=2015-06-20|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160116145032/http://www.academia.edu/3118298/Concepts_in_Urbanization_and_Early_State_Formation_The_Case_of_Minoan_Crete_v8 |archive-date=2016-01-16}}

|Greece

|1,300–2,000

|

|18,000

|

|20,000

|30,000

|

Lagash

|Iraq

|40,000

|10,000

|30,000

|10,000

|

|

|

Larak/Larsa

|Iraq

|10,000

|

|40,000

|20,000

|

|

|

Manika, Greece

|Greece

|6,000–15,000

|6,000–15,000

|

|

|

|

|

Malia

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|5,000–10,000–12,500

|

|

Mari

|Syria

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Memphis

|Egypt

|

|30,000–35,000

|60,000

|30,000

|22,000

|32,000

|50,000

Mohenjo-daro

|Pakistan

|20,000

|20,000

|10,000

|

|

|

|

Mozah

|

|15,000

|15,000

|

|

|

|

|

Mycenae

|Greece

|

|20,000{{cite book|title=Urban World History: An Economic and Geographical Perspective|author=Tellier, L.N.|date=2009|publisher=Presses de l'Universite du Quebec|isbn=9782760522091|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC|page=200|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430020632/https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

|30,000–35,000{{cite web |url=http://abuss.narod.ru/Biblio/WS/ws-history3_11.htm |title=11. NEGLECTING NATURE WORLD ACCUMULATION AND CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS, 2500 BC TO AD 1990 Sing C. Chew |publisher=Abuss.narod.ru |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225061631/http://abuss.narod.ru/Biblio/WS/ws-history3_11.htm |url-status=live }}

|30,000

Namazga-Tepe

|Turkmenistan

|

| 14,000

| 14,000

|

|

|

|

Nekhen

|Egypt

|

|

|

|

|21,000

|

|

Niniveh

|Iraq

|

|

|

|

|23,000

|

|33,000

Nippur

|Iraq

|20,000

|10,000

|10,000

|

|

|

|

Palaikastro

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|18,000

|

|

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán

|Mexico

|

|

|

|

|

|

|7,500{{Cite book|last=Cyphers|first=Ann|chapter=San Lorenzo|title=OLMEC: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico|editor1=Kathleen Berrin|editor2=Virginia M. Fields|place=New Haven and London|publisher=Yale University Press|chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/24073707|via=Academia.edu|access-date=2020-07-17 |archive-date=2023-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008082337/https://www.academia.edu/24073707|url-status=live}}

Shahr-i Sokhta

|Iran

|20,000

|20,000

|

|

|

|

|

Shuruppak

|Iraq

| 17,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Suheri

|

| 10,000

| 10,000

| 10,000

|

|

|

|

Susa

|Iran

|

|

| 25,000

| 25,000

|

|

|

Taosi

|China

|10,000

|14,000

|

|

|

|

|

Tell Brak

|Syria

|15,000

|15,000

|

|

|

|

|

Tell Churra

|

|

|20,000

|

|

|

|

|

Tell Leilan

|Syria

|20,000

|20,000

|

|

|

|

|

Thebes

|Egypt

|

|

|40,000

|40,000

|

|80,000

|80,000

Thebes, Greece{{cite journal |journal=Jaarbericht |url=https://www.academia.edu/219025 |title=Greece during the Late Bronze Age |publisher=Het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux |number=39 |via=Academia.edu |date=2005 |access-date=2015-06-20 |last1=Kelder |first1=Jorrit |archive-date=2022-04-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220413074836/https://www.academia.edu/219025 |url-status=live }}{{cite book |title=Jaarbericht |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JQsAQAAIAAJ&q=bronze+age+thebes+greece+20+hectares+population |access-date=2015-06-20 |year=2006 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020914/https://books.google.com/books?id=_JQsAQAAIAAJ&q=bronze+age+thebes+greece+20+hectares+population |url-status=live }}

|Greece

|4,000–6,000

|

|

|

|

|8,000

|

Tiryns{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GP5cIqY--P0C&pg=PA65 |title=Citadel to City-State: The Transformation of Greece, 1200-700 B.C.E.|author= Carol G. Thomas, Craig Conant |date=2009-08-25 |publisher=Indiana University Press |access-date=2015-06-20|isbn=978-0-253-00325-6 }}

|Greece

|1,200–1,800

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|10,000–15,000

Umma

|Iraq

|34,000

|20,000

|10,000

|20,000

|

|

|

Ur

|Iraq

|

|

|60,000
65,000{{cite book|last=Chandler|first=Tertius|title=Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth: An Historical Census|date=1987|publisher=St. David's University Press |url=http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/datasets/citypop/civilizations/citypops_2000BC-1988AD |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211233018/http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/datasets/citypop/civilizations/citypops_2000BC-1988AD |archive-date=2008-02-11|isbn=0-88946-207-0}}

|

|

|

|

Uruk

|Iraq

|50,000

|

|

|

|75,000

|

|

Yin (Anyang)

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|50,000–120,000

Zabala

|Iraq

|

|10,000

|10,000

|10,000

|

|

|

Zhengzhou

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|35,000

|

Iron Age

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Table 1: 1000-400 BC

!City

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |1000 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |900 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |800 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |700 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |650 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |600 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |500 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |430 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |400 BC

Aegina

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000–40,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ|title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary|first1=Simon|last1=Hornblower|first2=Antony|last2=Spawforth|first3=Esther|last3=Eidinow|date=29 March 2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=9780199545568|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240108124623/https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|20,000–40,000

Anuradhapura

|Sri Lanka

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|48,000

|

Anyi

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|100,000

Athens{{cite journal |last=Morris |first=Ian |date=December 2005 |url=http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/morris/120509.pdf |title=The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC |journal=Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924141733/http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/morris/120509.pdf |url-status=live }}{{cite book |title=Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches |author=Glenn Storey |date=2006 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-5246-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P43ChiFyVVEC |page=37 |access-date=2015-11-28 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095916/https://books.google.com/books?id=P43ChiFyVVEC |url-status=live }}{{cite book |title=Three Studies in Athenian Demography |author=Hansen, M.H. |date=1988 |publisher=Commissioner, Munksgaard |isbn=9788773041895 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=navdHEZqucUC |page=7 |access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095918/https://books.google.com/books?id=navdHEZqucUC |url-status=live }}{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece|author=Wilson, N.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-78800-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8pXhAQAAQBAJ|page=214|access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095918/https://books.google.com/books?id=8pXhAQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|Greece

|2,500–5,000

|2,500–5,000

|2,500–5,000

|10,000

|

|

|20,000

|40,000

|25,000

Agrigento

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000

|40,000

|

Argos

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|

|

|30,000–60,000{{cite book|title=Geology and Settlement: Greco-Roman Patterns: Greco-Roman Patterns|author=Troy Dora P. Crouch|date=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-535943-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEU4hqU-Op8C|page=124|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095918/https://books.google.com/books?id=xEU4hqU-Op8C|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Civilization or Barbarism|author1=Diop, C.A.|author2=Salemson, H.J.|author3=De Jager, M.|date=1991|publisher=L.M. Ngemi|isbn=978-1-55652-048-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RDZJAwAAQBAJ|page=160|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095919/https://books.google.com/books?id=RDZJAwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Great Leaders, Great Tyrants?: Contemporary Views of World Rulers who Made History|author=Blumberg, A.|date=1995|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-28751-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nofUu5tvJ18C|page=242|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095921/https://books.google.com/books?id=nofUu5tvJ18C|url-status=live}}{{cite book |title=A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE|author=Hall, J.M.|date=2013 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-1-118-34046-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YR8NAAAAQBAJ}}

|

|30,000–60,000

Ayodhya

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Babylon

|Iraq

|45,000–100,000{{efn|name=Haoqing}}

|

|47,000

|

|60,000

|125,000

|150,000

|200,000

|150,000

Benares

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Capua

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000{{cite book|title=Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC-AD 100|author=de Ligt, L.|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01318-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7_CqrKYjnMC|page=236|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101432/https://books.google.com/books?id=G7_CqrKYjnMC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=The First Millennium AD in Europe and the Mediterranean: An Archaeological Essay|author=Randsborg, K.|author-link=Klavs Randsborg|date=1991|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-38787-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sT07AAAAIAAJ|page=93|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101433/https://books.google.com/books?id=sT07AAAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|100,000

Cerveteri

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000–40,000{{cite book|title=An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330 |author=Pounds, N.J.G.|year=1976|issue=del 1330|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-29126-2 |url={{Google books |plainurl=yes |id=owY4AAAAIAAJ }} }}{{cite book|title=The Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum: Short Guide|author1=Museo nazionale di Villa Giulia|editor=Anna Maria Sgubini Moretti|year=2001|publisher=L'Erma di Bretschneider|isbn=9788882650124|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ljCiHdGkKSEC|access-date=2015-01-22 |archive-date=2023-01-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230111101622/https://books.google.com/books?id=ljCiHdGkKSEC|url-status=live}}{{Google books |id=n5g3h5G16EkC |page=1774 |title=The Etruscan World }}{{Google books |id=owY4AAAAIAAJ |page=54 |title=An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330, Del 1330 }}{{Google books |id=3QZXvUhGwhAC |page=110 |title=A Short History of the World }}

|

|

|

Chicheng

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Cuicuilco

|Mexico

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Corinth

|Greece

|

|

|

|5,000

|

|

|20,000

|

|

Crotone

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|50,000–80,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aEWAgAAQBAJ|title=The Formation of the Greek People|first=A.|last=Jarde|date=14 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-19586-0|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101434/https://books.google.com/books?id=5aEWAgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|

Ecbatana

|Iran

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Haojing

|China

|100,000{{efn|name=Haoqing|Modelski's list of the world's largest cities treats Thebes and Haojing 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 Haojing as well as Memphis and Babylon at 100,000 (pp. 33-34).{{full citation needed|date=July 2021|reason=refers to "Modelski'w list", no cite found.}}}}

|125,000

|125,000

|

|33,000

|

|

|

|

Hastinapur

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Jerusalem

|Israel/Palestine

|40,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|49,942 (445 BC)

|

Kamarina

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000

|

Kerch

|Crimea Ukraine

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000

Kingchow

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kalḫu (Nimrud)

|Iraq

|

|

|75,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kosambi

|India

|

|

|

|

|55,000

|

|

|

|

Linzi

|China

|

|

|

|55,000–100,000

|80,000–100,000

|65,000–100,000

|80,000–100,000

|60,000–200,000

|100,000–200,000

Luoyang

|China

|35,000{{cite web |title=Populations of Largest Cities in PMNs from 2000BC to 1988AD |url=http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/datasets/citypop/civilizations/citypops_2000BC-1988AD |format=TXT |access-date=2015-06-20 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929110844/http://www.etext.org/Politics/World.Systems/datasets/citypop/civilizations/citypops_2000BC-1988AD |archive-date=September 29, 2007 }}–100,000{{efn|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).{{full citation needed|date=July 2021|reason=Which book?}}}}{{efn|When the city first passed 100,000, suggested by Richard Forstall (pp. 541-542).{{full citation needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|40,000

|45,000–50,000

|55,000–100,000

|70,000–100,000

|65,000–100,000

|200,000

|200,000

|100,000–240,000

Marib

|Yemen

|

|

|

|

|45,000

|

|

|

|

Memphis

|Egypt

|35,000–100,000{{efn|name=Haoqing}}

|

|44,000

|

|

|65,000

|

|100,000

|

Metapontum

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000

|

|

Miletus

|Turkey

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Niniveh

|Iraq

|

|

|39,000

|100,000

|120,000

|

|

|

|

Pataliputra / Patna

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|400,000

Populonia

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000–40,000{{Cite journal |url=http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=etruscan_studies |format=PDF |title=Etruscan Studies |journal=Journal of the Etruscan Foundation |volume=8 |date=2008 |publisher=Scholarworks.mass.edu |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023613/http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=etruscan_studies |url-status=live }}{{Google books |id=nvsWZxKAa_4C |page=224 |title=Production, consumption and society in north Etruria during the archaic and classical periods }} by Hilary Wills Becker.

|

|

|

Pyongyang

|North Korea

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Tarquinia

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000–40,000

|

|

|

Thebes, Greece

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|

|

|30,000–60,000{{cite book|title=Jaarbericht|publisher=Het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap Ex Oriente Lux|date=2006|issue=39–41|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JQsAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101435/https://books.google.com/books?id=_JQsAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ada2TbJWM0C|title=A History of Boeotia|first=Robert J.|last=Buck|date=1979|publisher=University of Alberta|isbn=978-0-88864-051-2|access-date=2016-08-13 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101435/https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ada2TbJWM0C|url-status=live}}{{cite book |author=Henry Fynes Clinton |year=1851 |place=Oxford |publisher=University Press |title=An Epitome of the Civil and Literary Chronology of Greece: From the Earliest Accounts to the Death of Augustus |page=278 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FEcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA278 |access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2021-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720101751/https://books.google.com/books?id=FEcLAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA278 |url-status=live }}

|

|30,000–60,000

Qufu

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|100,000

Rome

|Italy

|4,440{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJN2AgAAQBAJ|title=The Urbanisation of Rome and Latium Vetus: From the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era|first=Francesca|last=Fulminante|date=10 February 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-65584-3|page=252|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101436/https://books.google.com/books?id=ZJN2AgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

|

|

|24,400–40,000{{cite journal|jstor=295257|title=Roman Population, Territory, Tribe, City, and Army Size from the Republic's Founding to the Veientane War, 509 B.C.-400 B.C |first=Lorne H. |last=Ward |date=January 1990 |journal=The American Journal of Philology|volume=111|issue=1 |pages=5–39 |doi=10.2307/295257}}

|27,200

|28,960

Sais

|Egypt

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán

|Mexico

|13,000{{Cite journal|last=Cyphers|first=Ann|date=2007|title=Surgimiento y decadencia de San Lorenzo, Veracruz. Del Ojochi al Nacaste|journal=Arqueología Mexicana|volume=87|pages=36–42|language=es|url=https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/san-lorenzo-veracruz-0|access-date=2021-07-21 |archive-date=2021-07-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210721012042/https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/san-lorenzo-veracruz-0|url-status=live}}

|13,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Shangqiu

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|130,000

Sravasti

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|46,000

|

Sparta

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000–50,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oafCBYBbMRgC|title=Once Again: Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis|first=Thomas Heine|last=Nielsen|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Franz Steiner Verlag|isbn=978-3-515-08438-3|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101436/https://books.google.com/books?id=oafCBYBbMRgC|url-status=live}}

|

|

Susa

|Iran

|40,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|200,000

Suzhou

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

Syracuse

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|24,000–40,000{{cite book|title=Ancient Cities: The Archaeology of Urban Life in the Ancient Near East and Egypt, Greece and Rome|author=Gates, C.|date=2011|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-82327-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dsysAgAAQBAJ}}{{cite book |title=Urbanism in the Preindustrial World: Cross-Cultural Approaches |author=Glenn Storey |date=2006 |publisher=University of Alabama Press |isbn=978-0-8173-5246-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P43ChiFyVVEC |page=44 |access-date=2015-11-28 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531095916/https://books.google.com/books?id=P43ChiFyVVEC |url-status=live }}{{cite book|title=Great cities of the ancient world|author=De Camp, L.S.|date=1972|publisher=Doubleday|isbn=9780385091879|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbYWAQAAIAAJ|access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101948/https://books.google.com/books?id=hbYWAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}

|24,000–40,000

|24,000–125,000

Sybaris

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W5iFAgAAQBAJ|title=Warfare in Ancient Greece: A Sourcebook|first=Michael|last=Sage|date=1 June 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781134763320}}

|

|

Taranto

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|110,000–150,000{{sfn|Fronda|2010|p=29}}

Thebes

|Egypt

|50,000–120,000{{efn|name=Haoqing}}

|50,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Vaisali

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Veii

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000–100,000

|

|

|

Volsinii

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|13,000–40,000

|

|

|

Vulci

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|15,000–40,000

|

|

|

Xiadu

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|100,000

|320,000

|300,000

Xintian

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|

Xinzheng

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

Xue

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Yong

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Table 2: 300 BC-400 AD

!City

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |300 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |200 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |100 BC

!data-sort-type="number" |AD 1

!data-sort-type="number" |AD 100

!data-sort-type="number" |AD 200

!data-sort-type="number" |AD 300

!data-sort-type="number" |AD 361

!data-sort-type="number" |AD 400

Alexandria

|Egypt

|150,000

|300,000–600,000

|400,000

|

|250,000–500,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=186}}

|500,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=186}}

|

|125,000–200,000

|

Augsburg

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|25,000–50,000

|25,000–50,000{{cite book|title=The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy|author=Scheidel, W.|date=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-49556-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gm7lAgAAQBAJ|page=244|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101949/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gm7lAgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

Antioch

|Turkey

|

|120,000

|400,000

|

|150,000–250,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=190}}

|250,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=190}}

|

|150,000

|

Anuradhapura

|Sri Lanka

|

|68,000

|

|

|130,000

|

|

|72,000

|

Anyi

|

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Athens

|Greece

|25,000

|10,000

|10,000

|

|90,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=191}}

|90,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=191}}

|

|

|

Autun

|France

|

|

|

|40,000–100,000{{cite book|title=An Historical Geography of France|author1=de Planhol, X.|author2=Claval, P.|date=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-32208-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C19glZh7zfoC|page=47|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101949/https://books.google.com/books?id=C19glZh7zfoC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Regional Dynamics Burgundian Landscapes in Historical Perspective|author=Crumley, C.|date=2013|publisher=Elsevier Science|isbn=978-0-323-14402-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S_LXEVuOi5EC|page=390|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101950/https://books.google.com/books?id=S_LXEVuOi5EC|url-status=live}}

|40,000–100,000

|

|

|

|

Arles

|France

|

|

|

|

|10,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=188}}

|10,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=188}}

|

|

|75,000{{cite book |url=https://www.academia.edu/1166147 |title=The Urban Mind: Cultural and Environmental Dynamics |chapter=The Fall and Decline of the Roman Urban Mind |pages=277–294 |via=Academia.edu |access-date=2014-09-24 |last3=Victor |first3=Helena |last2=Lejdegård |first2=Hans |last1=Fischer |first1=Svante |editor1=Paul J.J. Sinclair |editor2=Gullög Nordquist |editor3=Frands Herschend |editor4=Christian Isendahl |archive-date=2022-06-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601135045/https://www.academia.edu/1166147 |url-status=live }}

Ayodhya

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|63,000

|

Aquileia

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|12,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=182}}

|12,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=182}}

|

|

|

Carnuntum

|Austria

|

|

|

|

|12,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=190}}–50,000{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of Austria|author=Fichtner, P.S.|date=2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6310-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ilyK1_1f0zYC|page=54|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101950/https://books.google.com/books?id=ilyK1_1f0zYC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=The Danube: A Cultural History|author=Beattie, A.|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-976835-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BtncoXdlxdkC|page=109|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101951/https://books.google.com/books?id=BtncoXdlxdkC|url-status=live}}

|12,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=190}}–50,000

|

|

|

Capua

|Italy

|

|100,000

|100,000

|

|25,000–40,000

|

|

|

|

Carthage

|Tunisia

|

|150,000–200,000

|

|

|100,000–300,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=184}}

|300,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=184}}

|

|

|

Chang'an/Xi'an

|China

|

|100,000–400,000

|375,000–400,000

|246,000–500,000:zh:汉书

|81,000–100,000

|120,000

|140,000

|80,000

|100,000

Chengdu

|China

|

|

|

|100,000

|70,000

|

|

|

|

Cổ Loa

|Vietnam

|

|40,000

|50,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Byzantium /
Constantinople

|Turkey

|

|

|

|

|

|15,000

|20,000

|150,000

|200,000

Corinth

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|40,000–100,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=190}}{{cite book|title=Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society|first1=Steve|last1=Friesen|first2=Daniel N.|last2=Schowalter|first3=James|last3=Walters|date=14 June 2010|isbn=978-9004181977|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WcPFWtWd-fcC&q=roman%20corinth%20with%20a%20population%20of%20100,000&pg=PA437|publisher=BRILL|access-date=2020-10-23 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020927/https://books.google.com/books?id=WcPFWtWd-fcC&q=roman%20corinth%20with%20a%20population%20of%20100,000&pg=PA437|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

|

Cologne

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|20,000–40,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=189}}{{cite book|title=Traffic and Congestion in the Roman Empire|author=van Tilburg, C.|date=2007|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-12975-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0i5LHy4b6kgC|page=42|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531101952/https://books.google.com/books?id=0i5LHy4b6kgC|url-status=live}}

|20,000–40,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=189}}{{cite book|title=Ecologies and Economies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Studies in Environmental History for Richard C. Hoffmann|author=Bruce, S.G.|date=2010|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004180079|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9aoklkGrf-8C|page=48|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531102955/https://books.google.com/books?id=9aoklkGrf-8C|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=http://www.stadt-koeln.de/mediaasset/content/pdf15/pegel_k__ln__millionenstadt_2010.pdf |date=29 September 2010 |title=2010: Köln ist Millionenstadt |access-date=2014-09-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140824213540/http://www.stadt-koeln.de/mediaasset/content/pdf15/pegel_k__ln__millionenstadt_2010.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2014 }}

|

|

|

Ctesiphon

|Iraq

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|250,000

|

Cuicuilco

|Mexico

|

|36,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Datong

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

El Mirador

|Guatemala

|

|

|

|200,000{{cite web|url=http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/el-mirador-the-lost-city-of-the-maya-1741461/?all|title=El Mirador, the Lost City of the Maya|access-date=2015-07-24 |archive-date=2015-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724151309/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/el-mirador-the-lost-city-of-the-maya-1741461/?all|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

|

|

Ephesus

|Turkey

|

|

|

|

|33,600{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=190}}

|

|

|

|

Izapa

|Mexico

|

|35,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kaushambi

|India

|90,000-180,000{{Cite book |last=Schlingloff |first=Dieter |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gxpb6n |title=Fortified Cities of Ancient India: A Comparative Study |date=2013 |publisher=Anthem Press |jstor=j.ctt1gxpb6n |isbn=978-0-85728-331-3 |access-date=2023-07-02 |archive-date=2023-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702121539/https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1gxpb6n |url-status=live }}

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kaveri

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|59,000

|

Linzi

|China

|125,000–350,000

|100,000

|100,000

|100,000

|

|100,000

|

|

|

London

|UK

|

|

|

|

|30,000

|45,000–60,000{{cite web|url=http://www.demographia.com/dm-lon31.htm|title=Greater London, Inner London Population & Density History|publisher=demographia.com|access-date=2014-09-24|archive-date=2018-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225061757/http://www.demographia.com/dm-lon31.htm|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

Lugdunum

|France

|

|

|

|

|25,000–50,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=188}}{{cite book|title=Roman Cities|author1=Grimal, P.|author2=Woloch, G.M.|date=1983|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-08934-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=polg8REJ7bAC|page=176|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531102957/https://books.google.com/books?id=polg8REJ7bAC|url-status=live}}

|25,000–50,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=188}}

|

|

|

Luoyang

|China

|125,000–240,000

|60,000

|

|200,000

|420,000

|

|140,000–250,000

|

|200,000

Mathura

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Milan

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|30,000–40,000

|

|

|100,000

|25,000–100,000{{cite book|title=Urban World History: An Economic and Geographical Perspective|author=Tellier, L.N.|date=2009|publisher=Presses de l'Universite du Quebec|isbn=9782760522091|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC|page=266|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240430020632/https://books.google.com/books?id=cXuCjDbxC1YC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=European Cities and Towns: 400-2000|author=Clark, P.|date=2009|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-956273-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBSGziQyjGsC|page=30|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531102958/https://books.google.com/books?id=FBSGziQyjGsC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RA21YIHFTjkC|title=Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200|first=Neville|last=Morley|date=19 December 2002|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=9780521893312|access-date=2016-08-13 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531102959/https://books.google.com/books?id=RA21YIHFTjkC|url-status=live}}

Monte Albán

|Mexico

|5,200{{Cite book|last1=Marcus |first1=Joyce|title=Zapotec civilization : how urban society evolved in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley|date=1996|publisher=Thames and Hudson|last2=Flannery|first2=Kent V. |isbn=0-500-05078-3 |location=New York|oclc=34409496}}

|

|17,200

|17,200

|17,200

|17,200

|

|

|

Nanjing

|China

|

|56,000

|

|

|78,000

|

|100,000

|150,000

|300,000

Nimes

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000–60,000{{cite book|title=Roman Architecture|author=Sear, F.|date=1983|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-0-8014-9245-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkdt_p6uvw0C|page=213|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103000/https://books.google.com/books?id=Rkdt_p6uvw0C|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Northern Europe: International Dictionary of Historic Places|author1=Ring, T.|author2=Watson, N.|author3=Schellinger, P.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-63951-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uWjYAQAAQBAJ|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103001/https://books.google.com/books?id=uWjYAQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_sMAQAAIAAJ|title=Late Ancient and Medieval Population|first=Josiah Cox|last=Russell|date=1 January 1958|publisher=American Philosophical Society|access-date=2016-08-13 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103002/https://books.google.com/books?id=s_sMAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

Ostia Antica

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|25,000–40,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=182}}

|25,000–50,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=182}}{{cite book|title=The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250: Ritual, Space, and Decoration|author=Clarke, J.R.|date=1991|issue=pt. 250|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-08429-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q7qcegqaRYC|page=268|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103003/https://books.google.com/books?id=4Q7qcegqaRYC|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

Paithan

|India

|

|60,000

|

|

|84,000

|

|

|

|

Patala

|Pakistan

|

|

|

|

|73,000

|

|

|

|

Pataliputra

|India

|

|350,000–400,000 - 1,000,000

|

|

|69,000

|

|

|250,000

|

Peshawar

|Pakistan

|

|

|

|

|120,000

|

|

|

|

Philippi

|Greece

|

|

|

|100,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qp9zBQAAQBAJ|title=Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and Methods|first=Darrell L.|last=Bock|date=1 July 2002|publisher=Baker Academic|isbn=9780801024511|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103003/https://books.google.com/books?id=qp9zBQAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

|

|

Pingcheng

|China

|

|88,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|200,000

Pozzuoli

|Italy

|

|

|

|30,000–50,000

|30,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=184}}–50,000

|

|

|

|

Pyay

|Myanmar

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|69,000

|

Qufu

|China

|100,000–125,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Rajgir

|India

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Rhodes{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c7N2f7ckjS0C&pg=PA55 |title=Rhodes in the Hellenistic Age |author=Richard M. Berthold |author-link=Richard Berthold |year=1984 |isbn=9780801475979 |publisher=Cornell University Press}}{{cite book |title=A Companion to Ancient Greek Government |date=2013-01-31 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZQfFuJBiWvsC&pg=PA55 |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=9781118303184 |last1=Beck |first1=Hans|publisher=Wiley }}{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ETJFAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT95 |title=The Origins of Business, Money and Markets |author=Keith Roberts |date=2013-08-13 |publisher=Columbia University Press |access-date=2015-06-20 |isbn=9780231526852}}

|Greece

|100,000–200,000

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Rome

|Italy

|100,000

|150,000–160,000

|400,000

|1,000,000

|1,000,000

|1,000,000

|800,000

|800,000

|800,000

Salona

|Croatia

|

|

|

|

|25,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=189}}

|25,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=189}}

|

|

|

Seleucia

|Iraq

|

|200,000

|400,000

|250,000 (CE 2)

|150,000–250,000

|

|

|

|

Shangqiu

|China

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Srughna

|India

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Suzhou

|China

|100,000

|66,000

|

|

|95,000

|

|

|58,000

|

Syracuse

|Italy

|50,000–100,000

|

|

|

|90,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=183}}

|90,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=183}}

|

|

|

Taxila

|Pakistan

|

|60,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Teotihuacán

|Mexico

|

|60,000–80,000{{cite web|title=Teotihuacan: Introduction |website=Archaeology of Teotihuacan, Mexico |url=http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/intro/intrteo.htm |access-date=September 2, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070812152559/http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/teo/intro/intrteo.htm |archive-date=August 12, 2007 }}

|

|

|

|

|

|90,000

|

Thessaloniki

|Greece

|

|

|

|

|30,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=191}}

|30,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=191}}

|

|

|

Tikal

|Guatemala

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000{{cite web |url=http://www.historywiz.com/exhibits/tikal.htm |title=Tikal, Mayan City |publisher=HistoryWiz.com |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2015-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914023633/http://www.historywiz.com/exhibits/tikal.htm |url-status=live }}

|

Tosali

|India

|

|

|

|

|16,000-47,000

|

|

|

|

Tres Zapotes

|Mexico

|

|30,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Trier

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|10,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=189}}

|10,000{{sfn|Wilson|2011|p=189}}–50,000

|50,000–100,000

|60,000

|

Ujjain

|India

|60,000

|94,000

|

|

|

|

|

|80,000

|

Vaishali

|India

|

|

|

|

|28,000-82,000

|

|

|

|

Vidisha

|India

|~100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Wanxian

|China

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

Xiadu

|China

|300,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Xianyang

|China

|100,000

|100,000–300,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Xinzheng

|China

|120,000–125,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

Xuchang

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|140,000

|

|

Ye

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|140,000

|120,000

|100,000

Middle Ages

class="wikitable sortable"

|+Early Middle Ages: 500-999 AD

!City

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |500

!data-sort-type="number" |600

!data-sort-type="number" |622

!data-sort-type="number" |700

!data-sort-type="number" |775

!data-sort-type="number" |800

!data-sort-type="number" |900

Aleppo

|Syria

|

|

|72,000

|

|

|

|

Athens

|Greece

|110,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V9cwAQAAMAAJ|title=History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -|first=Edward|last=Gibbon|date=12 December 2002|publisher=Palm Digital Media Group|isbn=9780740816987|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103006/https://books.google.com/books?id=V9cwAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|

|

|

|

|

Alexandria

|Egypt

|

|

|94,000–200,000

|216,000

|

|60,000–100,000

|60,000–100,000

Angkor

|Cambodia

|

|

|

|

|80,000{{cite journal |title=Diachronic modeling of the population within the medieval Greater Angkor Region settlement complex |date= 7 May 2021 |doi=10.1126/sciadv.abf8441 |author=Sarah Klassen |journal=Science Advances |volume=7 |issue=19 |pmid=33962951 |pmc=8104873 |bibcode=2021SciA....7.8441K |display-authors=etal}}

|100,000

|90,000–150,000

Anhilpur

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|80,000

Antioch

|Turkey

|150,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Anuradhapura

|Sri Lanka

|

|

|70,000

|

|

|

|

Arles

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=10}}

|

Ayodhya

|India

|75,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Badami

|India

|

|

|70,000

|

|

|

|

Baghdad

|Iraq

|

|

|

|

|

|175,000

|150,000

Bakhalal

|Mexico

|45,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Basra

|Iraq

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

Benares

|India

|

|

|75,000-210,000{{Cite journal |last=Dyson |first=Tim |date=2018-10-18 |title=The First Modern People |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829058.003.0001 |journal=Oxford Scholarship Online |doi=10.1093/oso/9780198829058.003.0001 |access-date=2023-09-08 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103515/https://academic.oup.com/book/3581/chapter-abstract/144858882?redirectedFrom=fulltext |url-status=live }}

|

|

|49,000

|59,000

Carthage

|Tunisia

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Chang'an / Xi'an

|China

|95,000–400,000

|400,000–600,000

|400,000

|1,000,000

|1,000,000{{efn|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.}}

|600,000–1,000,000

|100,000–750,000

Chengdu

|China

|

|

|94,000

|100,000

|

|100,000

|

Chenla

|Cambodia

|

|

|70,000

|

|

|

|

Chunar

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|72,000

Constantinople

|Turkey

|400,000–500,000{{cite web |work=History/Medieval Studies 303 |url=http://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/handouts/Population.htm |title=Early Medieval and Byzantine Civilization: Constantine to Crusades |access-date=2015-07-23 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826083011/http://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/handouts/Population.htm |archive-date=2015-08-26 }}

|150,000

|150,000

|125,000

|40,000–50,000

|40,000–50,000

|150,000

Copán

|Honduras

|

|

|

|

|

|63,000

|

Cologne

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|

|15,000–20,000

|21,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=__EdBgAAQBAJ|title=Deeds of the Saxons|author=Widukind of Corvey|translator1=Bernard S. Bachrach|translator2=David S. Bachrach|date=2014|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=9780813226934|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103511/https://books.google.com/books?id=__EdBgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

Córdoba

|Spain

|

|

|

|

|135,000

|160,000

|110,000{{sfn|Buringh|2010|p=73}}–175,000

Ctesiphon

|Iraq

|400,000

|

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=305}}–500,000

|

|

|

|

Dali

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|

|90,000–100,000

Đại La /Hanoi

|Vietnam

|

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

Datong

|China

|200,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Dorestad

|Netherlands

|

|

|

|

|1,000–2,500

|1,000–2,500

|

El Pilar

|Guatemala

|

|

|

|

|

|

|182,600{{Cite book|last=Ford, Anabel|title=The Maya Forest Garden : Eight Millennia of Sustainable Cultivation of the Tropical Woodlands|others=Nigh, Ronald|date=June 30, 2015|isbn=978-1-61132-997-1|location=Walnut Creek, CA |oclc=894750131}}

El Tajín

|Mexico

|

|

|40,000

|

|

|40,000

|50,000

Fanyang (Youzhou)

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

Florence

|Italy

|

|1,000

|

|

|2,000–2,500

|5,000

|

Fustat

|Egypt

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|150,000

Gao

|Mali

|

|

|

|

|

|72,000

|

Granada

|Spain

|

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000

Guangzhou

|China

|

|

|

|200,000

|

|200,000

|

Gwalior

|India

|65,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Huari/Wari

|Peru

|

|

|

|

|

|70,000{{Cite book|last=Jennings, Justin.|title=Globalizations and the ancient world|date=2011|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-511-91862-9|location=Cambridge|oclc=692197127}}

|

Jiankang

|China

|500,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Jinyang (Taiyuan)

|China

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|100,000

|

Kannauj

|India

|

|

|230,000

|250,000

|250,000

|230,000

|200,000

Kanchi

|India

|56,000

|

|70,000

|

|

|51,000

|

Kyoto

|Japan

|

|

|

|

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=297}}

|100,000–200,000

|200,000

Laon

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|

|28,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=113}}

Lhasa

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

London

|UK

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000–12,000

|

Luoyang

|China

|200,000–500,000

|500,000

|200,000

|500,000

|

|300,000–400,000

|150,000–200,000

Lyon

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|12,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=114}}

|

Madurai

|India

|

|

|70,000

|

|

|70,000

|

Mainz

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000

|30,000

Mandsaur

|India

|63,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Manyakheta

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000–200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=307}}

Metz

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=115}}

|14,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=115}}

Milan

|Italy

|30,000

|

|

|

|

|25,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=88}}

|30,000 (875){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=89}}

Naples

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|30,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=89}}

|30,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=89}}

|30,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=89}}

Nanjing

|China

|150,000–500,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Nara

|Japan

|

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|

Orléans

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=10}}

|

Padua

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|15,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=10}}

|

Paris

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000–30,000

|20,000

Patna / Pataliputra

|India

|500,000

|300,000

|

|100,000

|

|74,000

|

Pavia

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|15,000–20,000

|

Poitiers

|France

|

|5,000–9,000

|5,000–9,000

|5,000–9,000

|10,000

|10,000

|

Preslav

|Bulgaria

|

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000–60,000

Prambanan

|Indonesia

|

|

|

|

|

|60,000

|62,000

Provins

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|

Pyay

|Myanmar

|73,000

|

|100,000

|

|

|

|

Pliska

|Bulgaria

|

|

|

|

|

|34,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|

Ray

|Iran

|

|

|68,000

|

|

|

|

Regensburg

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000

|25,000

Reims

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000

|

Rennes

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|

Rome

|Italy

|100,000

|50,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}–90,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k0B92eRh2-EC&q=rome%20population%20in%20600%20ad%2090,000&pg=PA170|title=Charlemagne's Early Campaigns (768-777): A Diplomatic and Military Analysis|first=Bernard|last=Bachrach|date=15 February 2013|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-9004224100|access-date=2020-10-23 |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020933/https://books.google.com/books?id=k0B92eRh2-EC&q=rome%20population%20in%20600%20ad%2090,000&pg=PA170|url-status=live}}

|50,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|50,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|50,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|50,000Meneghini and Santangeli Valenzani Roma nell'altomedioevo. Topografia e urbanistica della citta dal V al X seolo. Rome, 2004. pp. 22-3

|20,000–30,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

Rouen

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|

Seville

|Spain

|20,000

|40,000

|

|35,000

|

|35,000

|40,000–52,000

Sialkot

|Pakistan

|85,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Speyer

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000

|

Suzhou

|China

|70,000

|120,000

|

|100,000

|

|84,000–100,000

|81,000–100,000

Teotihuacán

|Mexico

|125,000

|

|60,000

|

|

|

|

Thessaloniki

|Greece

|100,000

|40,000

|

|40,000

|

|50,000

|50,000

Tikal

|Guatemala

|45,000

|

|

|

|

|40,000

|

Toledo

|Spain

|

|

|

|

|

|25,000

|28,000

Toulouse

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|

Tours

|France

|

|

|

|17,000

|

|20,000

|

Tula

|Mexico

|

|

|

|

|

|41,000

|50,000

Trier

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|15,000

|15,000–25,000

Venice

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|

|37,000

Verona

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|30,000

|25,000

Worms

|Germany

|

|

|

|

|

|10,000

|

Wuchang

|China

|

|100,000

|

|

|

|84,000

|

Ye

|China

|200,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Later Middle Ages: 1000–1399

!City

!Location

!data-sort-type="number" |1000

!data-sort-type="number" |1100

!data-sort-type="number" |1150

!data-sort-type="number" |1200

!data-sort-type="number" |1250

!data-sort-type="number" |1300

!data-sort-type="number" |1350

Angkor

|Cambodia

|200,000
400,000

|125,000
550,000

|140,000
600,000

|150,000
650,000

|650,000

|

|

Amalfi

|Italy

|35,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p=10}}–80,000

|

|

|

|

|10,000–15,000

|

Ani

|Turkey

|100,000{{cite web|title=SACRED SITE |work=Ani, Turkey |publisher=Landmarks Foundation |url=http://www.landmarksfoundation.org/projects_ani.shtml |access-date=22 January 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070520174818/http://www.landmarksfoundation.org/projects_ani.shtml |archive-date=May 20, 2007 }}–200,000{{in lang|hy}} Ghafadaryan, Karo. «Անի» [Ani]. Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia. Yerevan: Armenian Academy of Sciences, 1974, vol. i, pp. 407–412.

|

|

|

|

|

|

Anhilpur

|India

|100,000

|100,000

|135,000

|

|

|

|

Antioch

|Turkey

|

|

|40,000

|40,000

|

|

|

L'Aquila

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000

|

Bagan

|Myanmar

|

|100,000

|150,000

|180,000

|180,000

|

|

Baghdad

|Iraq

|125,000

|150,000

|

|250,000

|150,000

|

|

Beijing

|China

|

|

|

|130,000

|140,000

|401,000

|400,000

Berlin

|Germany

|

|

|

|2,400

|1,200–2,000

|4,000–7,000

|

Bologna

|Italy

|

|

|

|

|50,000

|50,000

|23,000

Braunschweig

|Germany

|10,000

|

|

|21,000

|

|

|

Bruges

|Belgium

|12,000

|15,000

|

|25,000

|36,000

|50,000

|

Cahokia

|Illinois, USA

|

|10,200–15,300{{cite journal |vauthors=Benson LV, Berry MS, Jolie EA, Spangler JD, Stahle DW, Hattori EM |title=Possible impacts of early-11th-, middle-12th-, and late-13th-century droughts on western Native Americans and the Mississippian Cahokians |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews |date=2007 |volume=26 |issue=3–4 |pages=336–350 |doi=10.1016/j.quascirev.2006.08.001 |bibcode=2007QSRv...26..336B |url=https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1767&context=usgsstaffpub |access-date=2022-01-27 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103510/https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1767&context=usgsstaffpub |url-status=live }}

|25,000{{cite journal |last1=Lipovac |first1=Nenad |title=Uspon i pad sjevernoameričkih prapovijesnih naseobina; Oblici naselja i struktura američkog jugoistoka |trans-title=The rise and decline of North American prehistoric settlements: a search for the meaning of habitat patterns and structures in the Southeast |language=hr |journal=Prostor |date=23 December 2010 |volume=18 |issue=2 |pages=268–287 |id={{Gale|A248659687}} |url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/62866 |access-date=2021-05-06 |archive-date=2021-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210506224252/https://hrcak.srce.hr/62866 |url-status=live }}

|20,000–30,000Glenn Hodges, "[https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/americas-forgotten-city America's Forgotten City] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026092318/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/americas-forgotten-city |date=2023-10-26 }}", National Geographic, January 2011.

|

|

|

Cairo

|Egypt

|135,000

|150,000

|175,000

|200,000–250,000

|300,000

|400,000

|350,000

Chang'an / Xi'an

|China

|

|

|

|

|

|118,000

|114,000

Chartres

|France

|

|

|

|7,000

|

|

|

Chunar

|India

|66,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Cologne

|Germany

|21,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=145}}

|25,000–35,000

|

|32,000–60,000{{cite book|title=A History of Modern Germany: The Reformation|author=Holborn, H.|date=1982|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-00795-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=350Qosar-UcC|page=38|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531103513/https://books.google.com/books?id=350Qosar-UcC|url-status=live}}

|52,000–60,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=145}}

|40,000–60,000

|57,000 (1333){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=145}}

Constantinople

|Turkey

|150,000

|200,000–250,000

|200,000

|150,000–250,000

|100,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=175}}

|150,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=175}}

|80,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=175}}

Córdoba

|Spain

|110,000{{sfn|Buringh|2010|p=73}}

|60,000 (1103){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=98}}

|60,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=98}}

|60,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=98}}

|

|40,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=98}}

|

Cuttack

|India

|

|

|

|

|100,000

|90,000

|90,000

Dali

|China

|90,000
100,000

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

Delhi

|India

|

|10,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|

|60,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|80,000

|100,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|125,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

Dhar

|India

|

|80,000

|

|

|

|

|

Dwarasamudra

|India

|30,000

|

|

|

|120,000

|150,000

|

Edessa

|Turkey

|

|25,000

|

|

|

|

|

Erfurt

|Germany

|10,000

|

|

|21,000

|

|32,000

|

Fanyang (Youzhou)

|China

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Fes

|Morocco

|75,000

|125,000

|160,000

|200,000–250,000

|200,000

|150,000–200,000

|125,000

Florence

|Italy

|13,000

|20,000

|

|30,000

|50,000–110,000M. Ginatempo L. Sandri "L'Italia delle Città. Sec XIII XVI" Le Lettere 1990

|60,000–120,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5SsBwAAQBAJ|title=The Industrial Geography of Italy (Routledge Library Editions: Economic Geography)|first=Russell|last=King|date=27 March 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317521112}}

|40,000

Gangaikonda Cholapuram

|India

|200,000

|300,000

|300,000

|250,000

|150,000

|

|

Gaur

|India

|

|

|

|60,000

|90,000

|100,000

|

Genoa

|Italy

|15,000–80,000

|

|

|30,000

|100,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|100,000

|

Ghent

|Belgium

|8,000

|12,000

|

|25,000

|65,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=62ISDAAAQBAJ|title=Flanders: A Cultural History|first=Andre|last=de Vries|date=11 June 2007|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA |isbn=9780195314939}}

|42,000–65,000

|57,000

Guangzhou

|China

|

|

|

|

|140,000

|150,000

|150,000

Hangzhou

|China

|80,000

|90,000

|145,000–800,000

|255,000–1,000,000

|320,000–1,000,000

|432,000–800,000

|432,000

Ile-Ife

|Nigeria

|

|

|

|

|

|

|75,000–105,000{{cite book |last=akinwumi |first= ogundiran|author-link= Akinwumi Ogundiran |date=2020|title= The Yoruba: A New History|publisher= Indiana University Press|page= |isbn=9780253051509}}

Jinzhou

|China

|85,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Kaifeng

|China

|400,000–1,000,000

|442,000–1,000,000

|150,000

|

|1,000,000

|

|

Kalburgi

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|70,000

Kalyan

|India

|

|150,000

|125,000

|

|

|

|

Kannauj

|India

|72,000

|80,000

|92,000

|

|

|

|

Khajuraho (Kalinjar)

|India

|100,000

|

|

|50,000

|

|

|

Khambhat

|India

|

|

|

|50,000

|60,000

|

|

Kyiv

|Ukraine

|45,000

|48,000–100,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p=10}}

|

|36,000–50,000

|

|

|

Kollam

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|60,000

Kyoto

|Japan

|175,000–300,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Laon

|France

|25,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=113}}

|

|

|

|

|

|

LondonHistory of London#Population

|UK

|20,000–25,000

|10,000–20,000

|

|20,000–30,000

|

|80,000–100,000{{cite book|title=Urban Panegyric and the Transformation of the Medieval City, 1100-1300|author1=Paul Oldfield|date=2019|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-871773-7|page=15}}

|25,000–50,000

Lübeck

|Germany

|

|

|

|6,000

|

|

|18,800

Madurai

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|60,000

|

Mainz

|Germany

|30,000

|30,000

|25,000

|25,000

|25,000

|24,000

|

Manyakheta

|India

|71,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Marrakech

|Morocco

|

|150,000

|150,000

|150,000

|125,000

|

|

Marseille

|France

|6,000–7,000

|

|

|25,000

|

|40,000

|

Merv

|Turkmenistan

|

|

|200,000

|70,000

|

|

|

Metz

|France

|16,000

|21,000

|

|23,000–27,000

|

|32,000

|

Milan

|Italy

|15,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|45,000

|58,000 (1170)

|60,000–100,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|150,000

|150,000–200,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}{{cite book|title=The Sovereign State and Its Competitors: An Analysis of Systems Change|author=Spruyt, H.|date=1996|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-02910-8|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx2Q4hxT5HAC|page=132|access-date=2016-08-12 |archive-date=2023-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731092656/https://books.google.com/books?id=Jx2Q4hxT5HAC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=The City-State in Europe, 1000–1600: Hinterland, Territory, Region|author=Scott, T.|date=2012|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-927460-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FHN0VdgwFcAC|page=17|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2023-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731092656/https://books.google.com/books?id=FHN0VdgwFcAC|url-status=live}}

|50,000–200,000

Montpellier

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|40,000–50,000

|

Nabadwip

|India

|

|

|85,000

|

|

|

|

Nanjing

|China

|

|

|130,000

|130,000

|130,000

|95,000

|

Naples

|Italy

|30,000

|30,000

|30,000

|30,000

|30,000–36,000 (1278)

|40,000–100,000

|60,000 (1340)

Nishapur

|Iran

|125,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Norwich

|UK

|

|

|

|

|

|20,000–25,000

|

Padua

|Italy

|

|

|15,000

|

|

|35,000

|

Palermo

|Italy

|60,000{{sfn|Buringh|2010|p=73}}–75,000

|

|150,000

|150,000

|50,000 (1277)

|40,000–100,000

|

Paris

|France

|20,000{{sfn|Bairoch|1988|p=28}}

|50,000–65,000{{cite journal |last1=Chase-Dunn |first1=Christopher |last2=Willard |first2=Christopher |last3=Willard |first3=Alice |title=Cities in the Central Political/Military Network Since CE 1200: Size Hierarchy and Domination |journal=Comparative Civilizations Review |date=1 April 1994 |volume=30 |issue=30 |id={{ProQuest|1311896683}} |url=https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol30/iss30/13/ |access-date=2021-05-06 |archive-date=2021-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507121621/https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol30/iss30/13/ |url-status=live }}{{cite book|title=The Early Medieval World: From the Fall of Rome to the Time of Charlemagne [2 Volumes]|author=Frassetto, M.|date=2013|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-996-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6feKDfRM9sYC|page=444|access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2023-07-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230711181023/https://books.google.com/books?id=6feKDfRM9sYC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Medieval France: An Encyclopedia|author=Kibler, W.W.|date=1995|publisher=Garland Pub.|isbn=978-0-8240-4444-2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MQoKeohhNkMC|page=1316|access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104017/https://books.google.com/books?id=MQoKeohhNkMC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=French|author=Lodge, R.A.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-89414-7|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b72HAgAAQBAJ|access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104017/https://books.google.com/books?id=b72HAgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|

|110,000{{sfn|Bairoch|1988|p=28}}

|160,000

|200,000–270,000 (1328){{sfn|Bove|Gauvard|2014|p=7}}

|215,000

Polonnaruwa

|Sri Lanka

|

|

|

|75,000

|

|

|

Prague

|Czech Republic

|10,000

|

|

|22,000

|

|40,000

|50,000

Puri

|India

|

|

|78,000

|72,000

|

|

|

Ramavati

|

|

|75,000

|

|

|

|

|

Regensburg

|Germany

|40,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p=10}}

|30,000

|

|

|

|

|

Rome

|Italy

|35,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p=10}}

|30,000–40,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|30,000–40,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|40,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|

|40,000–50,000{{sfn|Wickham|2015|p=112}}

|15,000Norman John Greville Pounds. An Historical Geography of Europe 450 B.C.-A.D. 1330, p. 350–17,000

Rouen

|France

|20,000

|20,000

|

|30,000–40,000

|50,000

|40,000–50,000

|

Salerno

|Italy

|50,000{{cite book|title=Introduction to Global Politics|author-link1=Richard W. Mansbach|author1=Mansbach, R.W.|author2=Taylor, K.L.|date=2013|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-136-51738-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kU4R6-O8ILkC|page=40|access-date=2016-03-01 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104018/https://books.google.com/books?id=kU4R6-O8ILkC|url-status=live}}

|50,000

|50,000

|

|

|10,000 (1320)

|

Sarai

|Russia

|

|

|

|

|

|

|120,000

Seville

|Spain

|52,000

|

|

|

|

|40,000–50,000

|

Shangjing

|China

|140,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

Speyer

|Germany

|25,000

|30,000

|30,000

|30,000

|30,000

|25,000

|

Suzhou

|China

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|96,000

Tabriz

|Iran

|

|

|

|

|

|125,000

|100,000

Thanjavur

|India

|200,000

|250,000

|200,000

|

|

|

|

Thăng Long/Hanoi

|Vietnam

|

|30,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|

|

|

|40,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|

Thessaloniki

|Greece

|40,000

|40,000

|40,000

|30,000

|

|50,000–100,000{{cite book|title=The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, C.1300-c.1415|author1=McKitterick, R.|author2=Jones, M.|date=2000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-36290-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LOS1c0w91AcC|page=811|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104018/https://books.google.com/books?id=LOS1c0w91AcC|url-status=live}}

|50,000–150,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p=10}}{{cite book|title=The Balkans and the Near East: Introduction to a Shared History|author=Karl Kaser|date=2011|publisher=Lit|isbn=978-3-643-50190-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j3i8muwLf8AC|page=196|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315024045/https://books.google.com/books?id=j3i8muwLf8AC|url-status=live}}

Toledo

|Spain

|37,000

|

|

|35,000

|

|42,000

|

Toulouse

|France

|

|

|

|

|

|35,000

|

Trier

|Germany

|20,000

|20,000

|20,000

|25,000

|

|

|

Venice

|Italy

|45,000–60,000{{cite book|title=Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology|author1=Chant, C.|author2=Goodman, D.|date=2005|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-134-63620-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hK-EAgAAQBAJ|page=141|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104019/https://books.google.com/books?id=hK-EAgAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Before European Hegemony: The World System A.D. 1250–1350|author=Abu-Lughod, J.L.|date=1991|issue=pts. 1250–1350|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-506774-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rYlgGU2SLiQC|page=125|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2023-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230731092655/https://books.google.com/books?id=rYlgGU2SLiQC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=A Companion to Venetian History, 1400–1797|author=Dursteler, E.|date=2013|publisher=Brill|isbn=9789004252523|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ascAAAAQBAJ|page=257|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104035/https://books.google.com/books?id=2ascAAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}

|58,000

|64,000–70,000

|70,000–80,000

|45,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|100,000–120,000

|65,228 (1363)

Veliky Novgorod

|Russia

|10,000–18,000

|

|

|20,000–40,000

|

|50,000{{cite book|title=Genocide and Gross Human Rights Violations: In Comparative Perspective|author1=Jonassohn, K.|author2=Björnson, K.S.|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-4128-2445-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jIxCUXI38zcC|page=202|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104021/https://books.google.com/books?id=jIxCUXI38zcC|url-status=live}}{{cite book|title=Medieval Russia, 980-1584|author=Martin, J.|date=2007|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-85916-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9JHwVtL7qDcC|page=68}}

|

Verona

|Italy

|10,000

|

|

|20,000–25,000

|20,000–25,000

|35,000–40,000

|

Vijayanagar

|India

|

|

|

|

|

|

|200,000

Warangal

|India

|

|

|

|

|63,000

|80,000

|

Worms

|Germany

|20,000

|

|

|28,000

|25,000

|20,000

|

York

|UK

|

|8,000

|

|

|

|23,000

|

Ypres

|Belgium

|

|

|

|

|40,000–200,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=igStAgAAQBAJ|title=Medieval Flanders|first=David M.|last=Nicholas|date=14 January 2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317901549}}

|30,000

|

class="wikitable sortable"

|+ Renaissance: 1400–1599

!City

!data-sort-type="number" |1400

!data-sort-type="number" |1450

!data-sort-type="number" |1500

!data-sort-type="number" |1550

!data-sort-type="number" |1575

Aachen

|

|

|15,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|

|

Adrianople / Edirne

|28,000

|85,000

|125,000

|160,000

|183,000

Agra

|

|

|

|250,000

|500,000

Ahmedabad

|

|70,000

|80,000–100,000

|140,000–175,000

|300,000

Ahmednagar

|

|

|

|70,000

|

Alessandria

|

|

|

|8,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Antwerp

|18,000 (1374)

|20,000 (1444)

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|90,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|104,984 (1568)

Asti

|

|

|

|8,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Augsburg

|14,000 (1408){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=143}}

|17,000 (1471){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=143}}

|20,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|45,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|

Ayutthaya

|

|

|150,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

|150,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

|10,000 (1569){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

Bago

|

|

|

|150,000

|175,000

Beijing

|150,000

|600,000

|672,000

|690,000

|706,000

Bologna

|40,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=84}}

|

|55,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|61,731 (1569){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=84}}{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|72,395 (1588){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=84}}

Brescia

|27,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=84}}

|30,000 (1440){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=84}}

|49,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|41,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Bursa

|95,000

|130,000

|

|

|

Bruges

|37,000

|25,000

|30,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|35,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|29,000 (1584){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=125}}

Cairo

|125,000–360,000

|380,000

|400,000

|360,000

|275,000

Chan Chan

|

|60,000–100,000Middendorf, 1898.{{full citation needed|date=July 2021}}

|

|

|5,000–10,000{{cite book |editor1=Michael Moseley |editor2=Kent Day |title=Chan Chan: Andean Desert City |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |year=1982}}

Chang'an / Xi'an

|150,000

|150,000

|127,000

|150,000

|

Cologne

|40,000

|

|30,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|35,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|37,000

Como

|

|

|10,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|10,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Constantinople / Istanbul

|75,000

|40,000–50,000

|200,000

|660,000

|680,000

Crema

|

|

|

|11,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Cremona

|35,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=85}}

|

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|34,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Cuneo

|

|

|

|6,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Cuttack

|75,000

|100,000

|140,000

|90,000

|

Cusco

|

|

|45,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=189}}

|

|

Delhi

|

|

|80,000–100,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|160,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|160,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

Fes

|125,000

|150,000

|130,000

|

|

Florence

|45,000–61,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AppsDAKOW3QC|title=Encyclopedia of the Black Death|first=Joseph P. |last=Byrne |date=16 January 2012 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781598842548}}

|54,000 (1470)

|55,000–70,000{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I2eaCwAAQBAJ|title=Energy, Cities and Sustainability: An Historical Approach|first=Harry|last=Margalit |date=19 February 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317528166}}

|59,216 (1562)

|

Fossano

|

|

|

|9,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Gao

|

|

|60,000

|

|

Gaur

|

|150,000

|200,000

|

|

Ghent

|70,000

|

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|50,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|

Genoa

|80,000–100,000

|120,000 (1460)

|60,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|65,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Granada

|100,000

|165,000

|70,000

|

|

Guangzhou

|150,000

|175,000

|150,000

|160,000

|170,000

Gwalior

|

|

|

|80,000

|

Hangzhou

|235,000

|250,000

|250,000

|260,000

|260,000

Hanoi

|

|

|50,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|

|

Jaunpur

|

|100,000

|

|

|

Kalburgi

|90,000

|

|

|

|

Kano

|

|

|50,000

|

|

Khambhat

|60,000

|

|

|

|

Kollam

|60,000

|

|

|

|

Lodi

|

|

|

|9,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

London

|45,000

|75,000

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|80,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|

Lyon

|20,000–35,000

|60,000

|50,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|70,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|

Lübeck

|17,200

|21,568

|25,444

|22,452

|

Magdeburg

|20,000

|24,000

|18,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|40,000

|

Mandu

|

|70,000

|

|

|

Mantua

|

|

|28,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|38,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Milan

|125,000{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|110,000

|100,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|69,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|115,000 (1574)

Modena

|

|

|18,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|16,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Nanjing

|487,000

|150,000

|157,000

|182,000

|188,000

Naples

|40,000–100,000

|60,000 (1435)

|125,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=183}}–150,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|212,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|215,000

Novara

|

|

|

|7,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Nuremberg

|18,000

|25,982 (1449)

|36,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|

Oyo-Ile

|

|150,000

|60,000

|

|

Padua

|

|

|27,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|32,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Paris

|100,000 (1422){{sfn|Fierro|1996|p=280}}

|150,000

|100,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|130,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|220,000

Parma

|

|

|19,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|25,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Pavia

|

|

|16,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|13,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Piacenza

|

|

|

|27,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Prague

|40,000

|

|30,000

|

|

Rome

|33,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=92}}

|33,500 (1458){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=92}}

|38,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=92}}–55,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|45,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|80,000 (1580)

Rouen

|

|

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|65,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|

Samarkand

|130,000

|

|

|

|

Seoul

|100,000

|125,000

|150,000

|

|125,000

Seville

|15,000 (1384)

|

|60,000

|65,000

|109,000 (1565){{cite web |url=http://personal.us.es/alporu/histsevilla/poblacion.htm |title=Demografía de Sevilla en el siglo XVI |publisher=Seville University |access-date=2012-07-23 |archive-date=2012-08-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120820072150/http://personal.us.es/alporu/histsevilla/poblacion.htm |url-status=live }}

Suzhou

|129,000

|

|

|

|

Tabriz

|150,000

|200,000

|250,000

|

|

Tenochtitlan/Mexico City

|

|

|200,000-400,000{{Cite book|last=Denevan|first=William M.|year=1992|title=The Native population of the Americas in 1492|location=Madison, WI|publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-13433-4 |edition=2nd |oclc=648253221}}{{Cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=Michael E.|last2=Schreiber |first2=Katharina J.|date=2005-09-01|title=New World States and Empires: Economic and Social Organization |journal=Journal of Archaeological Research|volume=13|issue=3|pages=189–229|doi=10.1007/s10814-005-3106-3 |s2cid=1383573|issn=1573-7756}}{{Cite journal|last=Totten|first=Samuel|date=1992|title=BOOK REVIEWS|journal=Holocaust and Genocide Studies|volume=6 |issue=4|pages=430–434|doi=10.1093/hgs/6.4.430 |issn=8756-6583}}

|60,000

|

Texcoco

|

|

|60,000

|

|

Venice

|85,000–200,000

|150,000 (1423)

|100,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|158,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|134,871 (1581)

Verona

|14,800

|

|38,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|52,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|

Vijayanagar

|400,000

|550,000

|500,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=265}} - 1,000,000{{Cite journal |last1=Howes |first1=Jennifer |last2=Talbot |first2=Cynthia |last3=Canby |first3=Sheila |last4=Michell |first4=George |last5=Foekema |first5=Gerard |last6=Topsfield |first6=Andrew |last7=Tillotson |first7=Giles |last8=Verghese |first8=Anila |last9=Fritz |first9=John M. |last10=Michell |first10=George |last11=Datta |first11=Sona |last12=Boardman |first12=John |date=January 2005 |title=Book Reviews |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02666030.2005.9628650 |journal=South Asian Studies |volume=21 |issue=1 |pages=137–150 |doi=10.1080/02666030.2005.9628650 |s2cid=219697340 |issn=0266-6030}}

|

|

Early Modern era

class="wikitable sortable"
City

!data-sort-type="number" |1600

!data-sort-type="number" |1650

!data-sort-type="number" |1700

!data-sort-type="number" |1750

!data-sort-type="number" |1800

!data-sort-type="number" |1825

!data-sort-type="number" |1850

!data-sort-type="number" |1875

Aachen

|14,171 (1601)

|12,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|15,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|

|24,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|35,428

|56,190 (1849){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=143}}

|79,606

Adrianople/Edirne

|160,000

|132,000

|93,000

|96,000

|100,000

|125,000

|85,000

|

Alexandria

|

|

|15,000 (1693)

|6,000 (1777)

|4,000 (1798)

|12,528 (1828)

|138,000

|212,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Antwerp

|47,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|70,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|70,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|46,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|60,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|

|88,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|127,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

Agra

|500,000

|660,000

|

|

|60,000

|

|108,000

|149,008 (1872){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=39}}

Ahmedabad

|300,000

|380,000

|400,000

|120,000

|89,000

|87,000 (1824)

|94,390 (1846)

|116,873 (1872){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=39}}

Amsterdam

|59,551The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness and Fall, 1477–1806. 1995.

|176,873

|235,224

|233,952

|203,485

|197,231 (1820)

|223,700{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|289,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Augsburg

|48,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|21,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|21,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|31,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=143}}

|28,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|

|35,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=143}}

|57,210

Ayutthaya

|100,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

|125,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=320}}

|150,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

|150,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

|

|

|30,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=270}}

|

Baltimore

|

|

|

|

|26,514

|80,620 (1830)

|169,054

|299,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Barcelona

|64,000

|64,000

|73,000

|70,000

|120,000

|120,000

|167,000

|240,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Beijing

|706,000

|470,000

|650,000

|900,000

|1,100,000

|1,350,000

|1,648,000

|1,310,000

Berlin

|25,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|12,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|55,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|113,289{{cite web|title=Population statistics: historical demography|url=http://www.populstat.info/|publisher=Populstat.info|access-date=2015-06-20|archive-date=2018-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180917030413/http://www.populstat.info/|url-status=live}}

|172,132

|220,277

|446,000

|1,045,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Birmingham

|2,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|4,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|7,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|23,688{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=133}}

|73,670 (1801){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=133}}

|122,000

|294,000

|480,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Bombay

|

|

|

|100,000

|

|163,000 (1826)

|

|718,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Bordeaux

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=352}}

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=352}}

|50,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=352}}

|67,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=352}}

|88,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=352}}

|

|142,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=110}}

|225,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Boston

|

|

|6,700

|20,000

|35,248

|61,392 (1830)

|202,261

|450,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Breslau (Wrocław)

|33,000–40,000{{cite book|title=Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook|author=Flood, J.|date=2006|issue=v. 1|publisher=De Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-091274-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC|access-date=2016-09-22 |archive-date=2024-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240531104601/https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC|url-status=live}}

|37,000

|40,000

|52,000

|64,520

|89,500 (1831)

|114,000

|239,050

Bristol

|10,549{{sfn|Latimer|1900}}

|15,000-20,000{{sfn|Latimer|1900}}

|25,000{{sfn|Latimer|1900}}

|43,275{{sfn|Shannon|Grebenik|1943}}

|62,452{{sfn|Shannon|Grebenik|1943}}

|94,180{{sfn|Shannon|Grebenik|1943}}

|137,528{{sfn|Shannon|Grebenik|1943}}

|206,874 (1881){{sfn|Shannon|Grebenik|1943}}

Brussels

|55,000

|70,000

|70,000

|55,000–60,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|66,297{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|

|208,000–251,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|327,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Bucharest

|60,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|

|50,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|25,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|34,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|

|104,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|177,646 (1878){{cite journal |last=Săgeată |first=Radu |date=2008 |title=Bucharest. Geographical and Geopolitical Considerations |url=http://www.rrgp.uoradea.ro/art/2008-1/05_Sageata.pdf |journal=Romanian Review on Political Geography |volume=10 |issue=1 |page=48 |issn=1582-7763 |access-date=12 April 2021 |archive-date=2021-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412135947/http://www.rrgp.uoradea.ro/art/2008-1/05_Sageata.pdf |url-status=live }}

Budapest

|25,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=155}}

|

|

|24,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=155}}

|54,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=155}}

|

|156,506{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=155}}

|325,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Cairo

|200,000

|350,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=196}}

|350,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=196}}

|300,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=196}}

|210,960

|257,783

|267,160

|345,028

Calcutta

|

|

|

|200,000

|

|230,000 (1822)

|

|680,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Chicago

|

|

|

|

|

|100 (1830)

|29,963

|405,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Cologne

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|45,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|42,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|43,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|42,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=350}}

|59,049

|94,781 (1849){{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|135,371

Copenhagen

|40,000

|29,000

|62,000

|93,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|101,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|108,000

|150,000

|241,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Danzig

|50,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|70,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|50,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|46,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|61,900

|65,000

|90,500 (1874)

Delhi

|

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|500,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|100,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|125,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|150,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|156,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=247}}

|154,417 (1872){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=40}}

Dhaka

|200,000

|200,000

|200,000

|135,000

|110,000

|66,989 (1830)

|60,617

|51,536 (1869)

Dresden

|14,793 (1603)

|16,000 (1648)

|21,298 (1699)

|63,209 (1755)

|61,794

|61,886 (1830)

|94,092 (1849)

|197,295{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Dublin

|5,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=349}}

|17,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=349}}

|60,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=349}}–80,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=135}}

|90,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=349}}–128,570 (1753){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=135}}

|167,899 (1802){{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=349}}

|194,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=327}}

|263,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=328}}

|310,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Edinburgh

|

|

|35,000

|55,000

|82,000

|145,000

|194,000

|274,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Edo (Tokyo)

|60,000

|430,000

|688,000

|509,000

|685,000

|530,000

|567,000

|780,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Esfahān

|125,000

|350,000

|350,000

|60,000

|50,000

|

|60,000

|76,088 (1870)

Genoa

|71,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|90,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|80,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|87,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|91,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|83,569 (1822)

|100,696

|130,269 (1872)

Glasgow{{cite book|editor1=J. Cunnison|editor2=J.B.S. Filfillan|year=1958|title=Third Statistical Account of Scotland GLASGOW |place=Glasgow|publisher=Collins |oclc=500429383}}

|7,000

|14,000

|14,000

|23,500{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|77,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=74}}

|170,000

|346,000

|635,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Guangzhou

|180,000

|200,000

|200,000

|400,000

|800,000

|900,000

|875,000

|944,000

Hangzhou

|270,000

|281,000

|303,000

|340,000

|387,000

|410,000

|700,000

|50,000 (1864)

Hanoi

|40,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|100,000{{sfn|Boudarel|Nguyen|Nguyễn|2002|p=19}}

|100,000{{sfn|Boudarel|Nguyen|Nguyễn|2002|p=19}}

|

|75,000{{sfn|Boudarel|Nguyen|Nguyễn|2002|p=19}}

|81,000{{sfn|Boudarel|Nguyen|Nguyễn|2002|p=19}}

|51,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|255,000{{sfn|Boudarel|Nguyen|Nguyễn|2002|p=22}}

Huế

|

|

|

|

|

|60,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|

|50,325{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

Ho Chi Minh City/Saigon

|

|24,000

|

|

|

|50,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|50,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|2013|p=271}}

|180,661 (1902){{cite book |title=Annuaire de la Cochinchine française... |year=1874 |url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57730402/f143.image.r=Saigon%20administratif.langEN |via=Gallica |access-date=2020-07-06 |archive-date=2020-07-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706200708/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57730402/f143.image.r=Saigon%20administratif.langEN |url-status=live }}{{verify source|date=July 2021|reason=Did not find this number in source. (1902 population in a 1874 book?)}}

Hyderabad

|80,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

|90,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=320}}

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

|225,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

|200,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

|350,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=251}}

Iași (Jassy)

|

|

|

|20,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|20,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|

|50,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=166}}

|72,000 (1877){{cite journal |last=Tudose |first=Mihaela |date=2017 |title=Demographic and Social-Economic Evolution of the City of Iași During the First Decades after the Union (1859-1881) |url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=611214 |journal=Ioan Neculce: The Bulletin of Moldavia's History Museum |series=New Series |issue=23 |page=180 |issn=1454-0754 |access-date=12 April 2021 |archive-date=2021-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412135946/https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=611214 |url-status=live }}

Constantinople/Istanbul

|400,000–700,000

|700,000

|600,000–700,000

|625,000

|570,000

|675,000

|785,000

|827,750 (1874)

Hamburg

|40,000

|75,000

|70,000

|75,000–90,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|130,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|124,838 (1830)

|193,000

|348,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Kagoshima

|

|50,000

|51,000

|57,000

|67,000

|72,350

|72,000

|89,374 (1873)

Kanazawa

|50,000

|55,106

|67,000

|78,000

|97,000

|103,000

|116,000

|109,685 (1873)

Kyoto

|300,000

|350,000{{cite book|last=Ponsonby-Fane|first=Richard Arthur Brabazon|title=Kyoto: the Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869|year=1956|publisher=Ponsonby Memorial Society|location=Kyoto|page=424}} (quoting the Meiji publication 平安通志)

|350,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=321}}

|362,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=328}}

|377,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=323}}

|350,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=327}}

|323,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=328}}

|238,663 (1873){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=41}}

Königsberg

|

|40,000 (1663)

|40,600 (1708)

|60,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|59,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|67,125

|79,887 (1852)

|122,636

Lahore

|350,000

|200,000

|

|

|

|

|94,000

|99,000 (1872){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=41}}

Leipzig

|20,000

|14,000 (1648)

|15,653 (1699)

|35,000

|32,146

|41,506

|62,374 (1849)

|209,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Lisbon

|110,000

|165,000 (1639)

|188,000

|148,000–213,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|180,000–237,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|249,000

|240,000–259,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|235,000 (1870){{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

Liverpool

|

|

|5,714

|22,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|77,653 (1801){{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|170,000

|375,955 (1851)

|650,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

London

|200,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|400,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|575,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|675,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|865,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|1,335,000

|2,320,000

|4,241,000

Lyon

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|75,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|97,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|114,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|102,167 (1793)

|115,841 (1820)

|254,000

|331,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Lübeck

|22,570

|31,068

|19,978

|17,644

|24,631

|25,600

|26,098

|44,799

Madras

|

|15,000

|

|55,000

|125,000

|172,000

|310,000

|400,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Madrid

|49,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|130,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|110,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|109,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|167,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|181,400 (1826)

|263,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|407,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Manchester

|

|5,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|9,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|18,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|70,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=348}}

|155,000

|412,000

|590,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Marseille

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|66,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|75,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|68,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|78,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|119,000

|193,000

|316,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Mexico City

|75,000

|90,000

|100,000

|110,000

|128,000

|176,000

|170,000

|250,000

Milan{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|120,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|100,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|124,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|123,618{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|134,528{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|168,000

|193,000

|277,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Moscow

|80,000

|200,000 (1638)

|130,000

|130,000–161,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|238,000

|241,500

|373,800Almanach de Gotha pour l'an 1858

|601,969 (1871)

Munich

|20,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|10,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|21,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|32,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|34,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|62,290

|96,398

|198,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Nagoya

|65,000

|

|65,000

|96,000

|92,000

|

|116,000

|125,193 (1873){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=41}}

Nanjing

|194,000

|178,000

|300,000

|285,000

|220,000

|200,000

|300,000

|

Naples

|400,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|176,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|216,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|305,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|427,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|350,000

|413,000–416,000

|450,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

New Orleans

|

|

|

|

|8,056

|46,082 (1830)

|116,375

|210,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

New York City

|

|

|4,436 (1703)

|13,296 (1749)

|63,000

|170,000

|682,000

|1,900,000

Nuremberg

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|25,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|40,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}

|30,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|27,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=351}}{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|

|54,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=75}}

|91,017

Osaka

|200,000–360,000

|220,000

|350,000–380,000{{cite book |author=F. Braudel |title=Capitalism and Material Life, 1400–1800 |year=1979}}{{cite book |last=Sansom |first=George |year=1963 |title=A History of Japan: 1615-1867 |place=Stanford, CA |publisher=Stanford University Press |page=113}} Note: These figures exclude military (samurai) population, which could account for a considerable portion of the population.

|400,000 (1749)

|383,000–500,000 (1783)

|340,000

|300,000

|320,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Palermo

|105,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=319}}{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|128,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=320}}

|100,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|118,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|139,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|168,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=327}}

|182,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=328}}

|219,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Paris

|220,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|430,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|510,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|576,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|581,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|855,000

|1,314,000

|2,250,000

Philadelphia

|

|

|4,400

|14,563 (1753)

|68,200

|138,000

|426,221

|791,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Prague

|60,000

|25,000

|39,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|58,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=76}}{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|77,403{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=76}}{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|98,000

|117,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=76}}

|223,371 (1869)

Rio de Janeiro

|

|

|20,000

|29,000

|44,000

|

|166,419

|274,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Rome

|105,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|124,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|138,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|156,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|163,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=355}}

|138,000

|170,000

|252,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Rouen

|60,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|82,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|64,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|67,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|81,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=353}}

|92,083 (1836)

|104,142 (1851){{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=120}}

|104,902 (1876)

Saint Petersburg

|

|

|

|138,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=164}}

|220,200{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=164}}

|438,000

|502,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=164}}

|764,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Seoul

|

|150,000

|158,000

|187,000

|190,000

|192,000

|194,000

|

Seville

|121,000 (1597)

|65,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|96,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|66,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=76}}

|96,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=356}}

|75,000 (1820)

|106,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=76}}

|133,247 (1877)

Shanghai

|

|

|45,000

|60,000

|100,000

|115,000

|250,000

|400,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Sunpu

|100,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|31,555 (1873){{sfn|Mitchell|1998a|p=42}}

St. Louis

|

|

|

|

|925 (1799)

|4,977 (1830)

|77,860

|338,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Suzhou

|175,000

|145,000

|245,000

|302,000

|243,000

|302,000

|550,000

|250,000

Turin

|24,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|37,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|42,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|57,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|82,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|109,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=327}}

|138,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=328}}

|216,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Warsaw

|35,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=159}}

|

|21,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=159}}

|28,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=159}}

|75,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=159}}

|124,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=327}}

|163,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=159}}

|311,000{{sfn|Chandler|Fox|1974|p=329}}

Venice{{sfn|Hohenberg|Lees|2009|p={{page needed|date=July 2021}}}}

|139,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|120,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|138,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|149,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|138,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=354}}

|109,927

|106,000{{sfn|Mitchell|1998e|p=76}}

|129,676

Vienna{{cite book |last=Steidl |first=Annemarie |year=2003 |title=Auf nach Wien! Die Mobilität des mitteleuropäischen Handwerks im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert am Beispiel der Haupt- und Residenzstadt Wien |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWfVTxX-pH4C |access-date=February 12, 2013 |isbn=3-7028-0403-X |archive-date=2021-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210526020947/https://books.google.com/books?id=mWfVTxX-pH4C |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.statistik.at/ |title=Statistiken |publisher=Statistik.at |access-date=2015-06-20 |archive-date=2015-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410031818/http://www.statistik.at/ |url-status=live }}

|50,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|60,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|114,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|175,400{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|231,000{{sfn|de Vries|1984|p=357}}

|401,200

|551,300

|1,020,770

Xi'an

|138,000

|147,000

|167,000

|195,000

|224,000

|259,000

|275,000

|250,000

Yamaguchi

|80,000

|

|

|

|

|

|

|

See also

Notes

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Citations

{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}

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Further reading

  • {{cite book |first1=Peter |last1=Connolly |author-link=Peter Connolly (classical scholar) |first2=Hazel |last2=Dodge |title=The Ancient City: Life in Classical Athens and Rome |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=0-19-521409-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/ancientcitylifei00conn |url-access=registration }}
  • {{cite journal |url=http://www.public.asu.edu/%7Emesmith9/1-CompleteSet/MES-05-CitySize.pdf |last=Smith |first=Michael E. |year=2005 |title=City Size in Late Post-Classic Mesoamerica |journal=Journal of Urban History |volume=31 |issue=4 |pages=403–434 |doi=10.1177/0096144204274396 |s2cid=145452272 }}