Oldest and Most Populous Cities (Top 30, With Countries)

Guess the thirty oldest urban areas that have a population of at least million. Countries are also provided.

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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Age	Country	Population	City
9000 BC	Syria	3,900,000	Damascus
7250 BC	Jordan	5,700,000	Amman
c. 6500 BC	Turkey	3,050,000	İzmir
6500 BC	China	1,730,000	Handan
6000 BC	Iran	15,500,000	Tehran
6000 BC	Turkey	1,750,000	Adana
5200 BC	Turkey	2,125,000	Bursa
5000s BC	Bulgaria	1,300,000	Sofia
5000 BC	Syria	1,940,000	Aleppo
4800 BC	China	3,325,000	Ningbo
c. 4700 BC	China	7,100,000	Xi'an
4700 BC	China	1,150,000	Chifeng
c. 4100 BC	China	1,490,000	Tai'an
before 3000s BC	Egypt	21,500,000	Cairo
3500 BC	China	1,580,000	Xingtai

Age	Country	Population	City
c. 3300 BC	Armenia	1,500,000	Yerevan
3300 BC	Palestine	2,025,000	Gaza
3000s BC	Turkey	1,700,000	Gaziantep
c. 3000 BC	China	7,550,000	Hong Kong
c. 3000 BC	Israel	1,010,000	Jerusalem
3000 BC	Turkey	1,330,000	Konya
c. 2700 BC	Iran	3,250,000	Isfahan
c. 2500 BC	China	5,400,000	Wenzhou
2500 BC	China	1,530,000	Zhangjiakou
2400s BC	Iraq	1,430,000	Mosul
c. 2300s BC	Iraq	1,050,000	Kirkuk
2300 BC	Iraq	1,120,000	Erbil
before 2070 BC	China	5,100,000	Zhengzhou
2070 BC	China	2,650,000	Luoyang
2000s BC	China	1,270,000	Rizhao

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