Statistics for Oldest and Most Populous Cities (Asia, Top 50)

Click here to take the quiz!

Age	Population	City	% Correct
5000 BC	1,940,000	Aleppo	100%
7250 BC	5,700,000	Amman	100%
2000 BC	7,150,000	Baghdad	100%
1045 BC	20,000,000	Beijing	100%
5200 BC	2,125,000	Bursa	100%
9000 BC	3,900,000	Damascus	100%
c. 6500 BC	3,050,000	İzmir	100%
c. 3000 BC	1,010,000	Jerusalem	100%
1800 BC	2,725,000	Tel Aviv	100%
c. 4700 BC	7,100,000	Xi'an	100%
c. 3000 BC	1,500,000	Yerevan	100%
c. 2000 BC	5,150,000	Ankara	86%
c. 1600 BC	10,000,000	Chengdu	86%
2300 BC	1,120,000	Erbil	86%
3300 BC	2,025,000	Gaza	86%
c. 3000 BC	7,550,000	Hong Kong	86%
3000 BC	1,330,000	Konya	86%
2400s BC	1,430,000	Mosul	86%
c. 2000 BC	1,800,000	Shiraz	86%
6000 BC	15,500,000	Tehran	86%
c. 1500 BC	9,250,000	Wuhan	86%
6000 BC	1,750,000	Adana	71%
1000 BC	2,175,000	Almaty	71%
3000s BC	1,700,000	Gaziantep	71%
c. 2700 BC	3,250,000	Isfahan	71%
2070 BC	2,650,000	Luoyang	71%
1800 BC	1,970,000	Varanasi	71%
c. 1000 BC	3,200,000	Kathmandu	57%
c. 2300s BC	1,050,000	Kirkuk	57%
800s BC	1,590,000	Medina	57%
c. 2500 BC	5,400,000	Wenzhou	57%
before 2070 BC	5,100,000	Zhengzhou	57%
before 771 BC	2,650,000	Anshan	43%
c. 850 BC	2,725,000	Daegu	43%
4800 BC	3,325,000	Ningbo	43%
770 BC	1,530,000	Wuhu	43%
2000 BC	1,750,000	Anyang	29%
c. 1159 BC	5,050,000	Changsha	29%
770 BC	2,025,000	Cixi	29%
6500 BC	1,730,000	Handan	29%
2500 BC	1,530,000	Zhangjiakou	29%
1046 BC	1,090,000	Tengzhou	14%
2000s BC	1,230,000	Tiruchirappalli	14%
2000 BC	1,240,000	Baoji	0%
4700 BC	1,150,000	Chifeng	0%
c. 2000 BC	1,310,000	Hamamatsu	0%
c. 1000s BC	1,270,000	Jining	0%
2000s BC	1,270,000	Rizhao	0%
c. 4100 BC	1,490,000	Tai'an	0%
3500 BC	1,580,000	Xingtai	0%