Largest Cities Over Time: 2000 BC to 2000 AD

Can you name the world's biggest cities over time? Population data and estimates from George Modelski and Tertius Chandler.

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Year	Population	City	Country
2000 BC	65,000	Ur	Iraq
1800 BC	>25,000	Thebes	Egypt
1600 BC	100,000	Avaris	Egypt
1400 BC	100,000	Thebes	Egypt
1200 BC	>50,000	Memphis	Egypt
1000 BC	100,000	Haojing (Xi'an)	China
800 BC	125,000	Haojing (Xi'an)	China
600 BC	200,000	Babylon	Iraq
400 BC	320,000	Xiadu	China
200 BC	600,000	Alexandria	Egypt
AD 1	800,000	Rome	Italy

Year	Population	City	Country
200	1,200,000	Rome	Italy
400	800,000	Rome	Italy
600	600,000	Constantinople	Turkey
800	700,000	Baghdad	Iraq
1000	350,000	Cordoba	Spain
1100	1,200,000	Baghdad	Iraq
1200	1,000,000	Hangzhou	China
1300	1,500,000	Hangzhou	China
1400	1,000,000	Jinling (Nanjing)	China
1500	1,000,000	Beijing	China
1600	1,000,000	Beijing	China
1700	700,000	Constantinople	Turkey
1800	1,100,000	Beijing	China
1900	6,500,000	London	United Kingdom
2000	26,400,000	Tokyo	Japan