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Historical urban community sizes 

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Estimated populations of historical cities over time.

Contents

Neolithic settlements

Further information: Neolithic architecture
City 7000 BC 3800 BC 3700 BC
'Ain Ghazal 2,500[1]
Catalhuyuk 7,000citation needed
2,500[1]
Jericho 2,000citation needed
Dobrovody 10,000citation needed
Maydanets 10,000[2]
Talianki 10-15,000[3]

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 100,000[10]

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 100,000[10]

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] 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 300,000[8]
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 [8][6]
Bakhalal 45,000 [9]
Basra 100,000 [9]
Benares 49,000 [9] 59,000 [9]
Carthage 100,000 [9]
Chang'an / Xi'an 400,000[8]

95,000 [9]

 400,000 [9] 1,000,000[6][8][14] 600,000 [9] 800,000[6][8]

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 [15]
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 [16] [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 [17]
Gaur 60,000 [9] 90,000 [9] 100,000 [9]
Genoa 80,000 [17] 100,000 [18]
Guangzhou 140,000 [9] 150,000 [9] 150,000 [9]
Hangzhou 80,000 [9] 90,000 [9] 145,000 [9] 255,000 [9] 1,000,000[6]

320,000 [9]

 432,000 [9] 432,000 [9]
Jinzhou 85,000 [9]
Kaifeng 432,000[8]

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 [15] 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 [17]
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 [19]

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 50,000citation needed
Sarai 120,000 [9]
Suzhou 96,000 [9]
Tabriz 125,000 [9] 100,000 [9]
Thanjavur 88,000 [9]
Venice 45,000 [18] 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 [17] 60,000 [17]
Gao 60,000 [9]
Gaur 150,000 [9] 200,000 [9]
Genoa 80,000 [17] 150,000 [17]
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 1,500,000[6]

235,000 [9]

 250,000 [9] 250,000[8] 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 [15] 50,000-100,000
Mandu 70,000 [9]
Milan 125,000 [18] 80,000 [17]
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 [18]

280,000 [9]

 150,000 [9] 185,000 [8] 210,000 [9] 220,000 [9]
Rome 50,000citation 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 [20]

80,000 [9]
Texcoco 60,000 [9]
Venice 120,000 [17] 110,000 [18] 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 60,000citation needed 205,000citation needed 219,000 [9] 205,000citation needed
Ayutthaya 300,000citation 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 12,000citation needed 70,000citation needed 172,122citation needed 1,045,000 [9]
Cairo 200,000 [9]
Edo(Tokyo) 60,000 [9] 688,000 [9]

1,000,000 (1721 year)[21]

 1,100,000[8]

685,000 [9]
Esfahān 350,000 [9] 350,000 [9]
Guangzhou 180,000 [9] 200,000 [9] 200,000 [9] 400,000 [9] 1,000,000 [6]

800,000 [9]

 900,000 [9] 875,000 [9]
Hangzhou 270,000 [9] 281,000 [9] 303,000 [9] 340,000 [9] 387,000 [9] 410,000 [9]
Istanbul 650,000citation needed

700,000 [9]

 700,000 [9] 700,000 [9] 625,000 [9] 570,000 [9] 675,000 [9] 785,000 [9]
Kagoshima 67,000 [9]
Kanazawa 67,000 [9]
Kyoto 300,000 [9] 400,000+[22]

350,000 [9]

 377,000 [8]
Lahore 360,000 [9]
London 150,000citation needed

200,000 [15]

 410,000 [9]

350,000 [15]

 550,000 [9] [15] 676,000 [9]

700,000 [15]

 960,000citation needed

959,300 (1801) [15] 861,000 [9]

 1,335,000 [9] 2,320,000 [9]

2,363,000 (1851) [15]

 4,241,000 [9]
Madrid 90,000citation needed 125,000citation needed 180,000citation needed
Milan [18] 150,000 125,000 160,000
Moscow 100,000citation needed 150,000citation needed 200,000citation needed

248,000 [9]
Nagoya 65,000 [9] 92,000 [9]
Nanjing 194,000 [9] 178,000 [9]
Naples 224,000 [9] 207,000 [18] 310,000 [9] 430,000 [9] 350,000 [9]
New York City 1,900,000 [9]
Osaka 360,000 [9] 350,000+[22]

380,000 [9]

 383,000 [8]
Paris 325,000citation needed

245,000 [9]

 455,000 [9] 600,000citation needed

530,000 [9]

 556,000 [9] 547,000 [9] 855,000 [9] 1,314,000 [9] 2,250,000 [9]
Rome 100,000citation needed 150,000 [18] 163,000citation needed
Saint Petersburg 438,000 [9]
Seoul 150,000 [9] 158,000 [9] 187,000 [9]
Sunpu 100,000 [9]
Suzhou 243,000 [9] 302,000 [9]
Venice [18] 180,000 145,000 160,000
Vienna 80,000citation needed 100,000citation needed 225,000