Age
|
Population
|
City
|
9000 BC
|
3,900,000
|
Damascus
|
7250 BC
|
5,700,000
|
Amman
|
6500 BC
|
1,730,000
|
Handan
|
c. 6500 BC
|
3,050,000
|
İzmir
|
6000 BC
|
15,500,000
|
Tehran
|
6000 BC
|
1,750,000
|
Adana
|
5200 BC
|
2,125,000
|
Bursa
|
5000 BC
|
1,940,000
|
Aleppo
|
4800 BC
|
3,325,000
|
Ningbo
|
4700 BC
|
1,150,000
|
Chifeng
|
c. 4700 BC
|
7,100,000
|
Xi'an
|
c. 4100 BC
|
1,490,000
|
Tai'an
|
3500 BC
|
1,580,000
|
Xingtai
|
3300 BC
|
2,025,000
|
Gaza
|
c. 3000 BC
|
1,500,000
|
Yerevan
|
3000s BC
|
1,700,000
|
Gaziantep
|
3000 BC
|
1,330,000
|
Konya
|
c. 3000 BC
|
7,550,000
|
Hong Kong
|
c. 3000 BC
|
1,010,000
|
Jerusalem
|
c. 2700 BC
|
3,250,000
|
Isfahan
|
2500 BC
|
1,530,000
|
Zhangjiakou
|
c. 2500 BC
|
5,400,000
|
Wenzhou
|
2400s BC
|
1,430,000
|
Mosul
|
c. 2300s BC
|
1,050,000
|
Kirkuk
|
2300 BC
|
1,120,000
|
Erbil
|
|
Age
|
Population
|
City
|
before 2070 BC
|
5,100,000
|
Zhengzhou
|
2070 BC
|
2,650,000
|
Luoyang
|
2000s BC
|
1,270,000
|
Rizhao
|
2000s BC
|
1,230,000
|
Tiruchirappalli
|
2000 BC
|
1,750,000
|
Anyang
|
2000 BC
|
7,150,000
|
Baghdad
|
2000 BC
|
1,240,000
|
Baoji
|
c. 2000 BC
|
5,150,000
|
Ankara
|
c. 2000 BC
|
1,800,000
|
Shiraz
|
c. 2000 BC
|
1,310,000
|
Hamamatsu
|
1800 BC
|
2,725,000
|
Tel Aviv
|
1800 BC
|
1,970,000
|
Varanasi
|
c. 1600 BC
|
10,000,000
|
Chengdu
|
c. 1500 BC
|
9,250,000
|
Wuhan
|
c. 1159 BC
|
5,050,000
|
Changsha
|
1046 BC
|
1,090,000
|
Tengzhou
|
1045 BC
|
20,000,000
|
Beijing
|
c. 1000s BC
|
1,270,000
|
Jining
|
1000 BC
|
2,175,000
|
Almaty
|
c. 1000 BC
|
3,200,000
|
Kathmandu
|
c. 850 BC
|
2,725,000
|
Daegu
|
800s BC
|
1,590,000
|
Medina
|
before 771 BC
|
2,650,000
|
Anshan
|
770 BC
|
2,025,000
|
Cixi
|
770 BC
|
1,530,000
|
Wuhu
|
|