Largest Cities in History (3700 BC – 2050)
This video shows which city was the largest in the world at each point in time, from 3700 BC to AD 2050.
The ShortThe First Cities on Earth (3700 BC – AD 1000)Data sources
Reba, Reitsma and Seto (2016), digitising Chandler (1987) and Modelski (2003), and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2025), with a small number of source figures omitted as digitisation errors.
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