Largest Cities in History by Population (urban agglomeration) 1000-2023 

I predict that Japan's population is going to plummet over the next 75-100 years and drop down to like 40,000,000

Sounds exactly like China in a more extreme fashion lol Just a fate of East Asian I guess

@@phunweng962 I think China is the more extreme one, considering about their one-child policy

you're clearly confusing japan and china

@@weitnerscheckanberden4405 The Japanese government also, like the Chinese government, promoted not to have too many children, even though it was not a policy. とはいえ生まない判断をしたのはあくまで当時の人たちだけどね

"London(England)" changed into "London(UK)", so Ashikaga→Tokugawa→Japan is completely acceptable

@@user-yn1mu2eb8t your analogy does not make sense at all

@@wilburwood8261 "London(England)" changed into "London(UK)", so Ashikaga→Tokugawa→Japan is completely acceptable

@@user-yn1mu2eb8t your saying the same thing twice, your analogy does not make sense at all. Japan has always been Japan, because the same emperor family has been around for about 2000 years. SO Tokunaga is not acceptable in the first place, should be Japan according to China dynasties shown in this video. Additionally, London should not be england in the old days. It should be the names of dynasties.

@@wilburwood8261 tokugawa

I think it isn’t real. I really want ti see the research Thus video use

What is the point of the permits? I genuinely wasn't aware thats how they did it!

The permits are called hukou in Chinese . They tie the person to the area they are registered. If you carry a resident permit for that area you can access local facilities like education for your children and health care . In the bigger more wealthy cities like Beijing and Shanghai they also give you the right to purchase property and a buy car . People who move to a city that they do not carry a permit for are at a distinct disadvantage. Poor people from the countryside will often just work in big cities but they will not bring their children as they will not be allowed to attend school in a city the do not carry a resident permit. It essentially controls the movement of people and gives advantage to people who have lived in an area for generations. Of course if you are wealthy or have attractive skill set with high education you can obtain resident permit for areas which you move to but for average Chinese it is very difficult to gain a residency permit for a economically rich area .

I am not sure if your reply is meaningful in anyway, you need official stats to make a good video.

It’s meaningful because these “official stats” you talk of are light years away from the actual reality. China in reality probably has the top 3 highest populated cities in the world today.

@@paulwilliammurphy1327 but you can't prove it right?

Industrial Revolution and its consequences

Something amazing is that at its height The city of Rome reached 1 million in the second century.

And Alexander Fleming

That was my surprise too, how the biggest cities on the planet were 150k at one point. Obviously that's not small in any era but crazy just how miniscule and overly isolated so much of the world was

​@@MustraOrdo Someone mentioned Alexander Fleming. His discovery of penicillin and other medical discoveries probably had a far greater influence in population growth.

The only one that sits on two continents: Europe and Asia.... Although the original city was built on the European side only....

U mean istanbul now I'm from turkey 🇹🇷 aka Türkiye 🇹🇷

@@user-cm1pq3dc3k There was no "Istanbul" back then. The official Ottoman name was Constantinya after Constantinoupolis = Constantinople. The current name of the city became official less than 100 years ago. You cannot erase history.

Constantinople was known as the queen of cities… who would ever call istanbul that

@@user-cm1pq3dc3k стамбул твой, который был Константинополем, пока его не захватили и не вырезали почти всех жителей

It seems Delhi is going to overtake us soon..

actually, it was occupied by Liao instead of Jin，and at that time Jin is not as Manchu's what was called Later Jin,it was found by Jurchens.

​@@foxlen8114 You're wrong, the Liao was defeated by a coalition of Song and Jin, and then north Song was occupied by Jin

@@foxlen8114 nah, Jingkang Incident was happened during Jin Dynasty, which shows that it is not Liao, really Jin fucked up Song

@@foxlen8114 Liao was annexed by Jin in 1115 bro. Liao only occupied Manchuria and east part of Mongolia.

I think kaifeng isn't that north

Uncomfortable

Em relação ao Brasil esta errado, porque a cidade de São Paulo não tem tudo isso, só quando considera a região metropolitana.

Em partes porque a capital é movida para Brasília e principalmente pela política desenvolvimentista de Juscelino que abre portas para a instalação de indústrias de bens de consumo, em especial a indústria branca e automobilística, que instalam-se no centro consumidor que, na época e atualmente, é São Paulo. Como adendo, Juscelino não é presidente nos anos 60, mas deixa o cargo no final da década de 50, o que repercute nos anos subsequentes as consequências de suas políticas

@@lucasvasconcelos5705 entendi mano. O Rio deixar de ser a capital foi um grande prejuízo à cidade. Até hoje é sentido.

​@@Brunofelix93E também se nota como apesar de tudo isso, o Rio de Janeiro deixando de ser a maior para ser a segunda maior cidade e deixando de ser capital do Brasil, o fato de continuar sendo muito mais significante quando a questão é mostrar o Brasil para o mundo, nessa cidade que já fui diversas vezes, é total que tem muito mais o Brasil dentro dela do que Brasília, uma capital estranha, sem cultura brasileira alguma, se nós olharmos para Paris, Londres, Washington, Tokyo, todas essas capitais têm a alma do seu país nelas, gostaria de saber onde está a alma dos brasileiros em Brasília? lamentável isso, essa capital só trouxe problemas para o Brasil, muito além do que para o Rio, para o Brasil de norte a sul, chamar JK de herói, é um grande absurdo, só o Palácio da justiça, custou 500 milhões de dólares, isso naquela época, a obra por inteira, custou muitos bilhões de dólares, numa época em que o Brasil era muito mais pobre do que é hoje, se o "heroi" JK tivesse feito o que a Coreia do Sul fez nessa mesma época, investindo em saúde e em educação, em vez de gastar com mudança de capital, o Brasil certamente hoje, seria um país no mínimo três vezes mais influente em tecnologia do que a Coreia do Sul, que por sinal... é um dos países mais tecnológicos do mundo, e olha que ao contrário do Brasil, a Coreia do Sul, tinha real motivo para mudar de capital, já que fica consideravelmente próxima da fronteira com a Coréia do Norte, nações inimigas, separadas por ideologias CAPITALISMO VS COMUNISMO, mas não, ainda assim, a Coreia do Sul investiu, nessa mesma época, em que o Brasil, com um povo miserável, tinham politicos como JK, que gastava fortunas por algo que não lhe daria, a Coreia do Sul, é influência mundial em tecnologia, um país minúsculo, que é maior do que o Brasil em tecnologia, triste isso, o custo altíssimo na construção de Brasília, não deu e como hoje já é bem visível que não dará nenhum benefício a longo prazo ao Brasil, deixando além de tudo isso, deixou o Brasil com dívidas por mais de 4 décadas, com o FMI, como alguém que esta com dívidas bancárias não pode gastar, para poder pagar suas dividas ao banco, assim ficou o Brasil durante 4 décadas, "legal" não acha? Existem muitas especulações do motivo da mudança de capital, uma delas é de se urbanizar essa região do Brasil, onde hoje e Brasília, uma desculpa claramente esfarrapada, rsrsrsrs... poeque essas áreas seriam popularizadas de acordo com o crescimento do Brasil, como aconteceu nos Estados Unidos e outros países, argumento comum esse, porém tão fraco quanto, e para piorar a situação dos brasileiros, na qual reflete até os dias atuais sobre os brasileiros, como toda a lambanças que JK fez, como ter abandonado as entregas de cargas por trens, em vez de moderniza-las, fez mudar essas entregas pelo Brasil, por caminhões, que possuem uma capacidade de carga visivelmente inferior ao dos três, além de se gastar mais, devido ao combustíveis, deixando os alimentos e tudo para os brasileiros, bem menos em conta, isso é... bem mais caro, e não acaba aí, Brasília foi construida numa área completamente inapropriada para construções urbanas, por isso não é incomum, pessoas terem sangues saindo de suas narinas, principalmente em determinadas épocas do ano, por isso, um clima que já era seco com vegetação, se tornou ainda pior com a urbanização nessa área completamente inapropriada para urbanização, a pergunta que faço é... qual moral o Brasil tem para falar em pró do meio ambiente para outros países, se sua capital é o maior simbolo de desmatamento ambiental? É sinônimo mundial de desmatamento ambiental ilegal que o dinheiro no bolso dos políticos fez se transformar em desmatamento ambiental "legal". Em Paris você sente a França, em Londres você sente a Inglaterra e também o Reino Unido, em Moscou, a Rússia, Tóquio, você sente o Japão, e outros países com capitais que possuem a alma do povo através da cultura e História, como Itália, Estados Unidos da América, na qual Washington possui isso, e assim como Recife, Salvador, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro e qualquer outra capital brasileira de norte a sul tem mais Brasil do que Brasília, porém entre cultura por misturas de brasileiros de diversas regiões do Brasil ( única coisa que Brasília tem), mistura entre povos de migrantes de outros países que migraram para o Brasil, natureza com azul do mar e verde das matas e montanhas, mpstrando ao mundo a natureza brasileira, fica visível que o Rio de Janeiro é a cidade com maior ligação com todo Brasil , é se colocarmos um duelo de qual cidade tem mais Brasil na alma, (cultura, História, natureza...) Rio de Janeiro vs Brasília, o Rio de Janeiro ganha de lavada de Brasília, a pergunta é... porque Brasília continua sendo capital do Brasil? Depois os brasileiros reclamam que alguns estrangeiros dizem que a capital do Brasil é Buono Aires, não temos que reclamar de nada, a culpa é nossa, nós é que aceitamos isso, acreditando em diversos papos furados que se escuta do porque da causa de se mudar a capital do Brasil, se o Brasil tivesse feito o que fez a Coreia do Sul, estaríamos muito melhores hoje, não com apenas 2 grandes cidades, S Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, teríamos muitas cidades grandes, como acontesse nos Estados Unidos, Nova York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Philadelfia, Atlanta etc... mas temos apenas 2, e no caso do Rio de Janeiro, devido a mudança de capital federal para Brasília, com tal abandono, se criou a primeira facção criminosa do Brasil, o Comando Vermelho, que serviu de mal exemplo para criminosos espalhados pelo Brasil, fundarem outras facções criminosas, que é o caso do PCC em São Paulo, a semelhança da fundação dessa facção criminosa com a do CV, não é mera coincidência. Está vendo como foi "bom" a fundação de Brasília? Rio de Janeiro, Recife, Salvador, Porto Alegre etc... cidades que possuem muito mais Brasil do que Brasília, Rio de Janeiro é uma cidade de artistas de diversos meios, tem muito mais Brasil, até o compositor do hino nacional brasileiro é carioca, escrevi para você o que crianças brasileiras não costumam aprender nas escolas sobre o enorme prejuízo por causa da mudança de capital para o Brasil, essa verdade, escondem das crianças nas escolas por todo Brasil, é óbvio, serão os próximos adultos, provavelmente também não se fala abertamente isso no próprio Rio de Janeiro, o Rio de Janeiro como Paris, Londres, Moscou, Tóquio, tem muito mais a alma da população de seu país,do que Brasília, qualquer brasileiro de bom senso nota que a mudança de capital federal do Rio de Janeiro para Brasília, foi um dos... se não o maior... dos erros que já se teve no Brasil em toda sua História, causando sequelas por toda parte, não apenas na cidade e estado do Rio, como você disse, mas em todo Brasil, incluindo na imagem do Brasil no exterior, já que o Rio é é sempre foi, a imagem do Brasil para o mundo, por isso JK jamais deve ser tratado como um herói brasileiro ao lado de por exemplo, Alberto Santos Dumont.

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Byzantine empire time?? How many countries did it effect

@@PortugalZeroworldcup It effected virtually every country in Europe/Middle East and Asia. An estimated 30%-60% of the European population and around 30% of the middle eastern population died by the black death.

i think you means 1300s right, or i am reading it differently?

@@williamharrison7523 black death and plague is different??

@@jcbw9975 Yeah my mistake.

"only"

To be fair, those are all basically part of one large city. If you look at a map of Tokyo there is pretty much no distinction between prefectures

Tokyo is a very NEW city, established around 1600, before it was a SWAMP. Kyoto has been the capital of Japan since around 800, so.

Kyoyto used to be the capital of japan.

Tokyo used to be just a swamp.

Depends on what kind of place you need for your story

@@badapple2221 A large city, preferably in Africa south of the Sahara would be best I think, I’m trying to avoid areas where others have set stories. Are you familiar with Eric Flint’s Ring of Fire series?

@@waynesworldofsci-tech hmmm I havent heard of Eric Flint unfortunately and large cities in africa around the 17th century werent really a thing. If you really need a big one I guess Cairo-Egypt should be a great idea and south of sahara there was Tombouctou-Mali which was a thriving city around the XVth century.

@@waynesworldofsci-tech Theres also Kano-Nigeria which was a very big city in early 7th century

​@@waynesworldofsci-tech in the time period 10th century - 16th century there were 3 large empires in sub-saharan africa: Mali (capital Timbuktu), Ghana (not present day Ghana though, capital Koumbi Sale) and the Songhai empire (capital Gao). They relied on trade, resources, gold, etcetera with the outside world, mainly the Arabs. Hope this helps somewhat, you can do some more research if needed 🙏

Due to the flooding of the Yellow River several times in history, the historical city of Kaifeng has been buried under thick mud.

そんなこと言い出したらロンドンなんか人口1万も無いぞ。 ロンドン市はムチャクチャ狭くて人口も僅かや。 でもロンドン市が人口1万やからロンドンは人口1万の田舎町やて言い張るんか？ 行政区域なんか都市規模とは何の関係も無い。 都市規模は都市圏人口で見ろ。

@@SAKANAYA_OSAKANA英語で言い返せないのがダサいな

By that logic, you would count Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and staten island as separate cities.

Babarian invading

Read the title of the video carefully

@@SceptonicI Read it again and now I get it population I thought is was the size area

@@b.j.likeseverything1906 ye

@@Sceptonic the title shown in the video, skipped the worlds of "by population". the illustration could be clearer at all.

@@Marclee37hk ye

yes，nearly whole central land of China was ruled under jurchen emperors, til the mongols came.

Yeah! To my knowledge, Beijing was never a Song territory. The Jurchens took it from the Khitans, before long they took Kaifeng and northern China.

says the guy with the flag imperial japan

No way you said that flag is imperial Japan😂​@@trollmcclure2659

Yes, one day today's countries will also collapse.

What does people suffering have to do with empires rising and falling? People suffer in peace too, and local tribes wage wars and genocide each other all the time. Empires just wage war on a greater scale.

We don't have it nearly as hard as people in the past. It's another dimension entirely.

Ahemdabad or Agra??

@@PortugalZeroworldcup what do u mean I cant understand

​@@quietkid4000were those cities more popular?

anyway it's still China

所以呢？他们还是中国朝代，不管朝代怎么变化和变迁。

Of course, I dont see Honolulu, Las Vegas, Gibraltar, SIngapore, Zanzibar, Muscat, Sapporo in there, so it cant be accurate

Those are all tiny cities, lmao what.

4:17 it’s there

And it came back later (Mexico City)

I think some of the "vaporizing" is the way the chart represented the change in official dynasty/empire many of the cities experienced. They would quickly drop out of nowhere and then pop back up as a different dynasty. Also, the scaling change throughout the video with all of the other cities rising quickly contributed to that effect. But there were a couple of instances where cities did drop off the map because there was a noticeable decrease in total population--I think those cities would make for a fascinating historical case study.

Which is sad news Hence all the confusion in the world

It didn't exactly show superpowers, it was an indicator amongst others yes but it didn't really gave an accurate measure by itself. Some relatively weak states were more urbanized. It was mostly about social organization and population.

India is still underdeveloped alright. Hopefully that will change in 10-20 years

@@GeneratedElectricity there's only so much a city can build if there's too many people

In my opinion, developed countries have infrastructure and order that extends to rural areas, undeveloping countries have them only in some areas such as capital cities, etc., which leads to population concentration

the corrupt politicians get a nice solid footing and ruin it

It is native name of the city.

@xdtaux Then why isnt it Kyivan?

Not a bad thing. Being packed in like Sardines is overrated. Internet connectivity is taking over from having to be in the centre of things nowadays.

Europe was politically, economically and militarily dominant in the middle 1700s (probably dating back to the 1600s); but geographically europe is tiny and cannot support a massive population. The interesting fact is it was the spanish discovery of the new world which would leepfrog europe from international backwater to world power player. And it wasn't for reasons you might be thinking. at about the same time europe was discovering the new world, China was changing it's tax laws, forbidding "bartering goods" as a means of taxation, requiring all taxes to be paid in currency. the problem was china didnt have enough silver to mint enough coins to allow it's massive population to actually pay it's taxes, so it started a world wide purchase of silver, which drove silver prices up to near or even exceeding the price of gold. This was tremendous good fortune for spain, because the new world was filled with silver. silver out of it's butt. This made silver more valuable then gold in the spanish eyes. this allowed spain to jumpstart their economy out of the post black death malaise, and incidentally it also dragged most of europe out of it as well, as spain, flushed with gold through their trading with china, then spent their gold like drunken sailors in europe. this in turn allowed europe to massively industrialize as it now had the assets necessary to do so. and the rest was history.

Nope, it´s in there, it enters in 1434.

Then it disappears in 1521 lol.

It'll come back on the list as Mexico city 400 years later!

行政区域の話ではなく都市圏のくくりでの統計だよ。

крепостной в стойло

И давно Киев вашим стал?)

@@hellman2530 Со времён князя Олега)

​@@romchik6952Вы из Швеции ?

​@@hellman2530Киев был нашим несколько столетий, и только в 1991 году он стал украинским

Maybe less in population ?

Yes there are that many in Tokyo, but in New York there are only 8 Million

С агломерациями считают наверное

@@croissantmike4220they are counting the metro area population

因为得到美英资本资金财团和武器支持有打赢甲午战争获得大量赔款可以去完成工业体系建设和军工升级等

Это агломерация населения, на деле же в Токио 11млн вроде живёт

In fact, 38 million people live in the Tokyo metropolitan area including Tokyo, and 20 million people live in the Osaka metropolitan area including Osaka and Kyoto. Half of Japan's population lives in these two metropolitan areas and the other half lives in the rest of the area.

It is Kievan Rus emblem.

@@xdtaux I've never known that Kievan Rus emblem has precisely the same colors as modern Ukrainian emblem has, thanks for enlightenment!!

@@xdtaux It wasnt' Kievan Rus emblem at all. Kievan Rus never existed as unified state. It's just historians invented that name in 19 century just to point historican period. You won't find any historical document with that emblem. It's pure invention of ukrainian nationalists after collapse of the USSR.

@@ez_really6223 Such emblem didn't exist before 1991 as emblem of any state or state-like territory. YOu won't find any historical documents with it. It's just invention of video makers just to point some historical period.

9th century

​@@gozhdaa why you didn't include maratha Empire in your videos. ? Any problem...? It's biggest Empire in Indian subcontinent after Mughals declining power 17th century

​​@@gozhdaaMughals become puppet of MARATHA Empire after MARATHA become strong ❤ Please do research 🙏 then make videos brother 🙏

@@Gpmaster1234cities not empires dumbass

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