Historical urban community sizes

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It has been suggested that List of largest cities throughout history be merged into this article or section. ()

Estimated populations of historical cities over time.

1 Neolithic settlements
2 Bronze Age
3 Iron Age
4 Middle Ages
5 Early Modern era
6 20th century
7 21st century
8 References
9 See also
10 External links

Neolithic settlements

Further information: Neolithic architecture

City	7000 BC	3800 BC	3700 BC
'Ain Ghazal	2,500¹
Catalhuyuk	7,000^{citation needed} 2,500¹
Jericho	2,000^{citation needed}
Dobrovody		10,000^{citation needed}
Maydanets			10,000²
Talianki			10-15,000³

Bronze Age

Further information: Cities of the Ancient Near East

Table 1: 3700-2600 BC
City	3700 BC	3400 BC	3100 BC	2800 BC	2600 BC
Adab				11,000 ⁴
Anshan			10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴
Bad-tibira				16,000 ⁴
Eridu	6,000-10,000 ⁴
Harappa					35,000 ⁵
Kish				40,000 ⁴
Lagash					40,000 ⁶
Larak/Larsa	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴
Memphis			30,000 ⁷
Mohenjo-daro					41,250 ⁵
Nippur				13,000 ⁴
Shahr-i Sokhta			20,000 ¹
Shuruppak				20,000 ⁴
Suheri			13,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴
Tell Brak			22,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴
Umma				26,000 ⁴
Uruk	14,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴	40,000 ⁶ 50,000 ⁴	80,000 ⁴	80,000 ⁶

Table 2: 2500-1200 BC
City	2500 BC	2300 BC	2000 BC	1800 BC	1600 BC	1360 BC	1200 BC
Adab	13,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴
Akkad		36,000 ⁴
Amarna						30,000 ⁸
Anshan	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴
Avaris/Pi-Ramses					100,000 ⁶ ⁸		160,000 ⁶
Babylon					60,000 ⁸		50,000
Dur-Kurigalzu						40,000 ⁸	40,000 ⁸
Ebla		30,000 ⁴
Erlitou				35,000 ⁴
Harappa		10,000 ⁴
Hattushash					37,000 ⁸	45,000 ⁸	48,000 ⁸
Hazor					24,000 ⁸
Heliopolis				39,000 ⁸
Heracleopolis				23,000 ⁸
Isin			40,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴ 58,000 ⁸
Kerma				25,000 ⁸	22,000 ⁸
Kesh	11,000 ⁴
Kish	25,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	40,000 ⁶
Knossos					100,000
Lagash	40,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	30,000 ⁶ ⁴ 37,000 ⁸	10,000 ⁴
Larak/Larsa	10,000 ⁴		40,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴
Mari			24,000 ⁸	52,000 ⁸
Memphis		30,000 ⁴	60,000 ⁶ ⁴	30,000 ⁴ 45,000 ⁸	22,000 ⁸	32,000 ⁸	50,000 ⁸
Mohenjo-daro	20,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁸
Mozah	15,000 ⁴	15,000 ⁴
Namazga-Tepe		14,000 ⁴	14,000 ⁴
Nekhen					21,000 ⁸
Niniveh					23,000 ⁸		33,000 ⁸
Nippur	20,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴ 22,000 ⁸
Shahr-i Sokhta	20,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴
Shuruppak	17,000 ⁴
Suheri	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴
Susa			25,000 ⁴ ⁸	25,000 ⁴ 32,000 ⁸	25,000 ⁸
Tell Brak	15,000 ⁴	15,000 ⁴
Tell Churra		20,000 ⁴
Tell Leilan	20,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴
Thebes			40,000 ⁴	40,000 ⁴ 65,000 ⁸		80,000 ⁸	37,000 ⁸
Umma	34,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	20,000 ⁴
Ur			65,000 ⁸
Uruk	50,000 ⁴
Yinxu (Anyang)							120,000 ⁶
Zabala		10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴	10,000 ⁴

City of Knossos

Iron Age

City	1000 BC	900 BC	800 BC	650 BC	430 BC	200 BC	AD 2	AD 100	AD 361
Alexandria						300,000 ⁸ 600,000 ⁶		250,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁹
Antioch						120,000 ⁸		150,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Anuradhapura					48,000 ⁸ ⁹	68,000 ⁸ ⁹		130,000 ⁸	72,000 ⁹
Athens					155,000 ⁸			250,000 ⁸
Ayodhya				38,000 ⁹					63,000 ⁹
Babylon	100,000¹⁰ 45,000 ⁹		47,000 ⁹	60,000 ⁸	200,000 ⁸
Benares					54,000 ⁹
Calah / Nimrud			50,000 ⁹
Carthage ⁸						150,000		100,000
Chengdu								70,000 ⁹
Chicheng			24,000 ⁹
Constantinople									300,000 ⁹
Ctesiphon									250,000 ⁹
Cuicuilco					31,000 ⁹	36,000 ⁹
Ecbatana					90,000 ⁹
Haoqing / Chang'an / Xi'an	100,000 ¹⁰ 55,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁶	55,000 ⁹	33,000 ⁸ ⁹		400,000 ⁸	246,000 ¹¹	81,000 ⁸ ⁹	80,000 ⁹
Hastinapur	30,000 ⁹		42,000 ⁹
Izapa						35,000 ⁹
Jerusalem	40,000 ⁹
Kaveri									59,000 ⁹
Kerch					33,000 ⁹
Kingchow			20,000 ⁹	43,000 ⁹
Kosambi				55,000 ⁹
Kweiteh / Shangqiu	21,000 ⁹
Linzi				100,000 ⁶ 80,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁶ 60,000 ⁹
Luoyang	100,000 ¹² ¹³ 55,000 ⁹		50,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁶ 70,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁶ 100,000 ⁹	60,000 ⁹		420,000 ⁹
Marib				45,000 ⁹
Memphis	100,000¹⁰ 35,000 ⁹		44,000 ⁹	65,000 ⁸ ⁹	100,000 ⁸
Miletus				50,000 ⁹
Nanjing						56,000 ⁹		78,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Niniveh			39,000 ⁹	120,000 ⁸ ⁹
Paithan						60,000 ⁹		84,000 ⁹
Patala								73,000 ⁹
Pataliputra ⁸					100,000 ⁸	350,000 ⁸		69,000 ⁸ ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Peshawar ⁸								120,000
Pingcheng						88,000 ⁹
Pyay									69,000 ⁹
Pyongyang	25,000 ⁹		25,000 ⁹
Rome						160,000 ⁸ 150,000 ⁹	800,000 ⁶	450,000 ⁸ 1,000,000 ⁶	150,000 ⁹
Sais				48,000 ⁹
Seleucia					200,000 ⁸	200,000 ⁹	250,000 ⁸	150,000 ⁸ 250,000 ⁹
Sindian				40,000 ⁹
Sravasti					46,000 ⁹
Susa	25,000 ⁹
Suzhou					60,000 ⁹	66,000 ⁹		95,000 ⁹	58,000 ⁹
Syracuse					125,000 ⁹
Taxila						60,000 ⁹
Teotihuacán						60,000- 80,000 ¹⁴			90,000 ⁹
Thebes	120,000 ¹⁰ 60,000 ⁹		60,000 ⁹
Tres Zapotes						30,000 ⁹
Ujjain						94,000 ⁹			80,000 ⁹
Vaisali					45,000 ⁹
Xiadu					320,000 ⁶
Xianyang						300,000⁸
Xue					75,000 ⁹
Yanxiadu					180,000 ⁹
Ye									120,000 ⁹

Middle Ages

Early Middle Ages: 500-999 AD
City	500	622	775	800	900
Aleppo		72,000 ⁹
Alexandria		94,000 ⁹			175,000 ⁹
Angkor					90,000 ⁹
Anhilpur					80,000 ⁹
Antioch	150,000 ⁹
Anuradhapura		70,000 ⁹
Ayodhya	75,000 ⁹
Badami		70,000 ⁹
Baghdad			700,000 ⁷	700,000 ⁹	900,000 ⁸⁶
Bakhalal	45,000 ⁹
Basra				100,000 ⁹
Benares				49,000 ⁹	59,000 ⁹
Carthage	100,000 ⁹
Chang'an / Xi'an	400,000⁸ 95,000 ⁹	400,000 ⁹	1,000,000⁶⁸¹⁵	600,000 ⁹	800,000⁶⁸ 500,000 ⁹
Chengdu		94,000 ⁹
Chenla		70,000 ⁹
Chunar					72,000 ⁹
Constantinople / Istanbul	400,000 ⁸	350,000 ⁹	225,000 ⁸	250,000 ⁹	300,000 ⁸
Copán				63,000 ⁹
Córdoba				160,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁸
Ctesiphon	400,000 ⁹	500,000 ⁹
Dali					90,000 ⁹
El Tajín		40,000 ⁹		40,000 ⁹	50,000 ⁹
Fustat				100,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Gao				72,000 ⁹
Gwalior	65,000 ⁹
Jiankang	500,000 ⁶
Kannauj		120,000 ⁹		80,000 ⁹	80,000 ⁹
Kanchi	56,000 ⁹	70,000 ⁹		51,000 ⁹
Kyoto			200,000 ⁸	200,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁸
Lhasa				100,000 ⁹
London ¹⁶
Luoyang	200,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹		300,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Madurai		70,000 ⁹		70,000 ⁹
Mandsaur	63,000 ⁹
Manyakheta					100,000 ⁹
Nanjing	150,000 ⁹
Patna / Pataliputra				74,000 ⁹
Prambanan				60,000 ⁹	62,000 ⁹
Pyay	73,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹
Ray		68,000 ⁹
Rome	100,000 ⁸
Sialkot	85,000 ⁹
Suzhou	70,000 ⁹			84,000 ⁹	81,000 ⁹
Teotihuacán	125,000 ¹⁷ ⁹	60,000 ⁹
Tikal	45,000 ⁹			40,000 ⁹
Tula				41,000 ⁹	50,000 ⁹
Wuchang				84,000 ⁹

Later Middle Ages: 1000-1399
City	1000	1100	1150	1200	1250	1300	1350
Angkor	200,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁹	140,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Anhilpur	100,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹	135,000 ⁹
Bagan		100,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	180,000 ⁹	180,000 ⁹
Baghdad	125,000 ⁸ 1,200,000 ⁶	150,000 ⁹			150,000 ⁸ 1,000,000 ⁶
Beijing				130,000 ⁹	140,000 ⁹	401,000 ⁹	400,000 ⁹
Cairo	135,000 ⁸	150,000 ⁹	175,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹	300,000 ⁹	400,000 ⁹	350,000 ⁹
Chang'an / Xi'an						118,000 ⁹	114,000 ⁹
Chunar	66,000 ⁹
Constantinople / Istanbul	300,000 ⁸	200,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁸
Córdoba	450,000 ⁸
Cuttack					100,000 ⁹	90,000 ⁹	90,000 ⁹
Dali	90,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹
Delhi					80,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁹
Dhar		80,000 ⁹
Fes		125,000 ⁹	160,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁹
Florence					110,000 ¹⁸
Gaur				60,000 ⁹	90,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹
Genoa	80,000 ¹⁸				100,000 ¹⁹
Guangzhou					140,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹
Hangzhou	80,000 ⁹	90,000 ⁹	145,000 ⁹	255,000 ⁹	1,000,000⁶ 320,000 ⁹	432,000 ⁹	432,000 ⁹
Jinzhou	85,000 ⁹
Kaifeng	432,000⁸ 400,000 ⁹	442,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹		1,000,000 ⁶
Kalburgi							70,000 ⁹
Kalyan		150,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁹
Kannauj	72,000 ⁹	80,000 ⁹	92,000 ⁹
Khajuraho (Kalinjar)				50,000 ⁹
Khambhat				50,000 ⁹	60,000 ⁹
Kollam							60,000 ⁹
Kyoto	300,000 ⁸
London ¹⁶	5,000-10,000	10,000-20,000				50,000-100,000	25,000-50,000
Madurai						60,000 ⁹
Manyakheta	71,000 ⁹
Marrakech		150,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	125,000 ⁹
Merv		200,000 ⁹
Milan					150,000 ¹⁸
Nabadwip			85,000 ⁹
Nanjing			130,000 ⁹	130,000 ⁹	130,000 ⁹	95,000 ⁹
Nishapur	125,000 ⁹
Palermo				150,000 ⁹
Paris					80,000 ²⁰ 160,000 ⁹	228,000 ⁹	215,000 ⁹
Polonnaruwa				75,000 ⁹
Puri			78,000 ⁹	72,000 ⁹
Ramavati		75,000 ⁹
Rome	50,000^{citation needed}
Sarai							120,000 ⁹
Suzhou							96,000 ⁹
Tabriz						125,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹
Thanjavur	88,000 ⁹
Venice					45,000 ¹⁹	110,000 ⁹
Vijayanagar							100,000 ⁹
Warangal					63,000 ⁹	80,000 ⁹

Renaissance: 1400-1599
City	1400	1450	1500	1550	1575
Agra					200,000 ⁹
Ahmedabad			100,000 ⁹	140,000 ⁹
Ahmednagar				70,000 ⁹
Bago				150,000 ⁹	175,000 ⁹
Beijing	150,000 ⁹	600,000 ⁹	672,000 ⁷ ⁹ 1,000,000 ⁶	690,000 ⁹	706,000 ⁹
Bursa		130,000 ⁹
Cairo	360,000 ⁹	380,000 ⁹	400,000 ⁸	360,000 ⁹	275,000 ⁹
Chang'an / Xi'an			127,000 ⁹
Constantinople / Istanbul			200,000 ⁸	660,000 ⁹	680,000 ⁹
Cuttack	75,000 ⁹	100,000 ⁹	140,000 ⁹	90,000 ⁹
Cusco			50,000 ⁹
Delhi			80,000 ⁹
Fes	125,000 ⁹		130,000 ⁹
Florence	45,000 ¹⁸		60,000 ¹⁸
Gao			60,000 ⁹
Gaur		150,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹
Genoa	80,000 ¹⁸		150,000 ¹⁸
Granada		165,000 ⁹
Guangzhou	150,000 ⁹	175,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	160,000 ⁹	170,000 ⁹
Gwalior				80,000 ⁹
Hangzhou	1,500,000⁶ 235,000 ⁹	250,000 ⁹	250,000⁸	260,000 ⁹	260,000 ⁹
Jaunpur		100,000 ⁹
Kalburgi	90,000 ⁹
Kano			50,000 ⁹
Khambhat	60,000 ⁹
Kollam	60,000 ⁹
London ¹⁶			50,000-100,000
Mandu		70,000 ⁹
Milan	125,000 ¹⁹		80,000 ¹⁸
Nanjing	487,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	157,000 ⁹	182,000 ⁹	188,000 ⁹
Naples				209,000 ⁹	215,000 ⁹
Oyo-Ile			60,000 ⁹
Paris	275,000 ¹⁹ 280,000 ⁹	150,000 ⁹	185,000 ⁸	210,000 ⁹	220,000 ⁹
Rome			50,000^{citation needed}
Samarkand	130,000 ⁹
Seoul		125,000 ⁹
Suzhou	129,000 ⁹
Tabriz	150,000 ⁹	200,000 ⁹	250,000 ⁹
Tenochtitlan			212,500 ²¹ 80,000 ⁹
Texcoco			60,000 ⁹
Venice	120,000 ¹⁸		110,000 ¹⁹	171,000 ⁹
Vijayanagar	400,000 ⁹	455,000 ⁹	500,000 ⁸	480,000 ⁹

Early Modern era

City	1600	1650	1700	1750	1800	1825	1850	1875
Agra	500,000 ⁹
Ahmadabad			380,000 ⁹
Amsterdam	60,000^{citation needed}		205,000^{citation needed}	219,000 ⁹	205,000^{citation needed}
Ayutthaya	300,000^{citation needed}		1,000,000 ⁶
Beijing	706,000 ⁸ 1,000,000 ⁶	470,000 ⁹	650,000 ⁸	900,000 ⁹	1,100,000 ⁸ ⁶	1,350,000 ⁹	1,648,000 ⁹
Berlin	12,000^{citation needed}		70,000^{citation needed}		172,122^{citation needed}			1,045,000 ⁹
Cairo	200,000 ⁹
Edo(Tokyo)	60,000

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