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Oldest and Most Populous Cities (Top 30)

Guess the thirty oldest urban areas that have a population of at least million.
Urban area populations, from: https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/.
The age is taken from the oldest permanently-inhabited part of the urban area. This is based on the oldest confirmed permanent settlement with at least a rough foundation date (unless that settlement was abandoned) or the first mention of the city in a document
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Last updated: April 4, 2021
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Age
Population
City
9000 BC
3,900,000
Damascus
7250 BC
5,700,000
Amman
c. 6500 BC
3,050,000
İzmir
6500 BC
1,730,000
Handan
6000 BC
15,500,000
Tehran
6000 BC
1,750,000
Adana
5200 BC
2,125,000
Bursa
5000s BC
1,300,000
Sofia
5000 BC
1,940,000
Aleppo
4800 BC
3,325,000
Ningbo
c. 4700 BC
7,100,000
Xi'an
4700 BC
1,150,000
Chifeng
c. 4100 BC
1,490,000
Tai'an
before 3000s BC
21,500,000
Cairo
3500 BC
1,580,000
Xingtai
c. 3300 BC
1,500,000
Yerevan
3300 BC
2,025,000
Gaza
3000s BC
1,700,000
Gaziantep
c. 3000 BC
7,550,000
Hong Kong
c. 3000 BC
1,010,000
Jerusalem
3000 BC
1,330,000
Konya
c. 2700 BC
3,250,000
Isfahan
c. 2500 BC
5,400,000
Wenzhou
2500 BC
1,530,000
Zhangjiakou
2400s BC
1,430,000
Mosul
c. 2300s BC
1,050,000
Kirkuk
2300 BC
1,120,000
Erbil
before 2070 BC
5,100,000
Zhengzhou
2070 BC
2,650,000
Luoyang
2000s BC
1,270,000
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