The Most Populous Cities in the World | 2.800 BC to 2.100 AD 

I'm happy this guy came from the future to assure us there won't be any global disaster this decade. I can finally relax.

I am from Iraq, Mesopotamia, the first to make the city and civilization 👋🇮🇶✌🦁🥇

I´m surprised Teotihuacan reached to be the biggest city in the world once. Greeting from Mexico :)

“If the world were a single state, its center would be Istanbul.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

Super interesting. But in reality, what constitutes a “city” ? For my home town, Paris, you have at least 3 definitions : 1) Paris, as we say, “intra-muros”, i.e. the 20 “arrondissements” of Paris, 2) the “petite couronne”, “small crown” of contiguous cities around Paris, and 3) the “grande couronne”, “larger crown” of cities that fall within the strong attraction of the capital. Depending on the definition you get from 2 million to probably around 12 million people…

So, Belize once had the world's biggest city. Can't see that happening again anytime soon

The fact that Jakarta and Manila isn't here makes me wonder where this information came from? Bro travelled in the past and future to get those census

For those wondering why tokyo isn't at the top is because they are only including urban populations.

Teotihuacan and Tenochtitlan in Mexico were the largest cities in the world before 1512

I like how some cities are counted include the metropolitan population around it while some cities are just given a single part of the city

The problem should not be the administrative divisions, but the comparison of economic zones such as commuting to work or school.

Забавно, из России увидел только 3 города. Москва до сих пор огромный город, а родной Санкт-Петербург при Российской империи был даже больше чем Москва. Вау! Удивил город Сарай в 13 веке. Это Монгольский город, но находился на территории вовременной России. Очень круто! Огромная работа была проделана! Респект

My city has 7,000 inhabitants (2024).

Glad to see 5 Big Cities from Pakistan. Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa, Indus Valley Civilization existed 5,000 years ago, and had two to three stories houses, paved streets, plumbing system, communal bath houses, and latrine toilets, over 5,000 years ago. Also Lahore is an ancient City and long with Taxila, still populated and both founded 1,000 B.C. Now Lahore has population of around 10 Million. It's amazing.

I'm shocked that Teotihuacan made it on here but not Tenochtitlan in the early 1500s which the Spanish described as being larger than any European city. Estimates put the city at around 200,000 inhabitants before the arrival of the Spanish.

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A logo do seu canal ficou muito bonita em verde e amarelo. 🔰

De 2800 ac até 1920 era difícil ver cidades com mais de 1m de habitantes, porque a agricultura era muito ineficiente e precisava de muitas famílias no campo, desta forma, descentralizando a população em geral.

BC２０００年以前の都市人口なんて正確にわかるのでしょうか？ どの様な資料を基にしてるのでしょう？日本の江戸時代の江戸（東京）は既に１００万人を超えていたはずですが？

It is crazy. Istanbul plays for the top ranks for every century!!!!

I found a heavy mistake in the development of Berlin. In the 1920ies, Berlin reached an all time maximum of 4,3 Mio inhabitants. In these times the second largest city in Europe after London!

The most oldest city's in 🇸🇾🇮🇶❤️ I'm proud

Mexico City and Lima of the Spanish empire were the most populous cities after the cities of the Chinese empire until its division in 1820.

There were Iraq and Syria when you were not present. Unfortunately, our situation is not easy now 😢❤❤

The name of Calcutta should have appeared for a long time since it was the second largest city in the former British empire

Bro harappa and mohan jodaro from india not pakistan 😂😂😂

"One image tells more than 1000 words." This video has more than 1000 images so it's quite remarkable amount of information here! Thank You so much for this video!

Pensei que SP decairia devido a queda da população brasileira, esses dados é compilado de qual fonte de projeção?

Rome you will be forever in my heart❤️

Mano a mano entre CDMX y SP 🇲🇽🇧🇷

SALTÉ DE ALEGRÍA AL VER A MI AMADO MÉXICO ENTRE LOS GRANDES DE LA HISTORIA. TEOTIHUACÁN, DONDE LOS HOMBRES SE CONVIERTEN EN DIOSES

How is Pakistan a different country before 1947? Where is the freaking logic in this?

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SUMAMENTE INTERESANTE, IRAK, CUNA DE LA CIVILIZACIÓN, Q TRISTE Q AHORA NO PASA POR SU MEJOR MOMENTO

I understand, here only the city is reflected by itself, not the metropolitan area, For that reason it is that Chinese cities do not decrease since despite the fact that the population of the country decreases people increasingly migrate to the cities and the urban population grows.

Istanbul is the most consistent city in this list

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Baghdad 💔

العراق موطن البشرية 😢❤

Tokyo is a wonderful city.

Iraq, my home 🇮🇶❤️

¡Hola! ¿Podrán hacer un gráfico que señale la posesión de armas de fuego entre los ciudadanos de cada país?

Osmanlı Devletinin zirvede olduğu 17 yüzyılda, yaklaşık 100 yıl boyunca İstanbul da Dünyanın en kalabalık Şehri. İstanbul’dan selamlar.👋🏻

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Şoktayım, gözlerime inanamıyorum.😲Çanakkale ilinin bir ilçesi, Gelibolu’nun nüfusu 249. 000 bin. Ve İstanbul’dan fazla. Kesinlikle yanılıyorsun. İstanbul’dan fazla olması mümkün değil.

高度経済成長期の東京すごいな

So good. Keep it up

At 2,500 BC *Mohenjo Daro* makes it's entry followed by *Harappa* which is adjacent to my village. *Pakistan* Zindabad 🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰 PK 🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰 PK🇵🇰

This video doesn't do justice to modern state ofthe cities. Even though Tokyo, within it's own administrative unit, has only 14M residents, it's metropolitan area has over 40M residents. It's unfair, because cities like Moscow are defined by the federal border, and that includes villages and towns that are not even connected to Moscow, while other cities which are de facto connected to Moscow, like Khimki are not represented. The entire metropolitan area should be represented, because a comparison like this is not really fair.

Nigeria has freaking Black magic in their country

The first city to reach 1M inhabitants was Rome in 192 AC and it maintained this population for 100 years. It took more of 1500 years until another city again reached 1M. This was London in 1802 AC. This gives us an idea of the greatness of the Roman Empire in its time.

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nice video but you should had used the greek or byzantine flag for Constantinople

India- Pataliputra, Vaishali, Ahmedabad, bijapur, delhi, vijaynagar, hyderabad, lucknow, mumbai, calcutta, madras, varanasi, agra, bangalore, kannauj

Syria civil war:starts İstanbul:its my time to shine

Super video 👍 go 1M

It is always interesting seeing how young is the west. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

HARRAPA MOHENJODARO TAKSHILA were Indian Cities... At that time there was no pakistan.. There was no pakistan until 1947...

lol i like how Vietnam just appears from nowhere at the end

London is the second city with more than 1m after Rome... nice to know it

São Paulo the Most Population City in South Hemisphere

Стамбул - Самый большой город Европы) İstanbul - Avrupanın en büyük şehirdir! 🇹🇷😏🇹🇷😏🇹🇷

Doee anyone know the source of these estimates especially for ancient cities?

5:10 the music is in synch with Rome moving down, being surpassed by Selucia and Istanbul… playing musical chairs for a few seconds…

São Paulo Sempre Vai Ser Uma Superpotência Econômica e Populacional

it's amazing that the first million people city could have been 100 BC (Alexandria) or 100 AD (Rome). After which both went into decline and the next million city took until around 880 AD (Baghdad) and then Beijing around 1000 AD, both also going into decline.....after that was a very long period without a million person city until 1808 when London became one! Of course though, other studies have different figures to this video, but still amazing that there were cities that large over 2000 years ago. Imagine the nightmares of running a city back then, no unions, you fuk up and you get fed to the lions!!!!

Best of all, really, is listening to Beethoven's masterpiece, his Ninth Symphony, over the course of more than four thousand and eight hundred years. ❤🇬🇧❤

In 2023 you give the population of Delhi as 1.69 crores while it is actually 2.85 crores (28.5 million)....and Mumbai was given as 1.44 crores while it is actually 2.07 crores ( 20.7 million) ...

Tokyo is 30 mln now. Still the biggest population.

Just look at Iraq! Iraq used to have some of the biggest cities in history, it was the capital of many empires ♥️

I didn't realize that Chicago was the world's 9th most populous cities when my family started migrating from the Jim Crow South in 1921.

It took 1700 years after Rome for another city, London, to have more than 1 million inhabitants.

I'm glad Chengdu made your list, most amazing city I've ever been to, but it should have made it much earlier. Just not enough records but I did take some archeology classes there, they were creating amazing gold jewelry before 2000 bc. Also some of their great wall still left. World's largest building and largest train station there. Also ChongQing metro is close to 50 million but exclusive economic zone is only half that. Anywho numbers are awesome.

Friends, these are just the center of cities. The surrounding district municipality town etc. Things not included. let's be understanding please

Outstanding!

Being from Newcastle (UK) it was mental to see my home city pop up at one point

역시 도쿄 최고다

Yil 2023 istanbul 12 milyon küsür gösterilmiş 15.sirada .kaçkınlarla beraber 15 milyon filan yani yeri 4 olmalıydı

Fes and Marrakech ❤❤

Istanbul is about 18 million with refugees now

When the sea level increased up, we will see the population of cities then

Uruk🇮🇶 Mari🇸🇾 Lagash🇮🇶 Girsu🇮🇶 Ur🇮🇶 Memphis🇪🇬 Avaris🇪🇬 Thebes🇪🇬 Yin🇨🇳 Pi- Ramesses🇪🇬 Teotihuacan🇲🇽 Caracol🇧🇿 Linzi🇨🇳 Luoyang🇨🇳 Babylon🇮🇶 Carthage🇹🇳 Alexandria🇪🇬 Rome🇮🇹 Seleucia🇮🇶 Istanbul🇹🇷 Xian🇨🇳 Baghdad🇮🇶 Ctesiphon🇮🇶 Kaifeng🇨🇳 Hangzhou🇨🇳 Cairo🇪🇬 Beijing🇨🇳 Delhi🇮🇳 Nanjing🇨🇳 Vijayanagar🇮🇳 London🇬🇧 Tokyo🇯🇵 Shanghai🇨🇳

This drives the message home that there's too many of us in this world. We are beginning to smother Mother Nature. A fair and just way must be found to reduce our footprint because war and disease won't be pretty.

Fascinante historia citadina. Gracias por compartirla. Os pasàsteis. Desde la Mitad del 🌎.... Bendiciones. Ma.12.04.2024

ROME: the eternal city

Peace is the most inportant thing for population

caracol was on the list for so many centuries, it was such a great city.

Dhaka ❤❤🇧🇩🇧🇩

London,New york,Paris Banyak imigran gelapnya wajar penuh penghuninya.😁😊

There's a lot of surprises in this time-lapse. One, is that the population doesn't seem to have changed all that much for 1,300 years from 300 to 1600. (And WHAT happened to Delhi so suddenly just after 1400?) There were some spectacular population decreases throughout the period, not only during the Black Plague. I had no idea that New York was ever the second-most-populated city in the world. It's also very surprising that in modern times, it wasn't until 1957 that any Asian city (Tokyo) became the world's largest. It's also very interesting to see nothing from Greece appear in the olden times, because many of us can name at least a few of the city-states that existed there (Athens, Sparta, Troy). I was even more surprised that Damascus never showed up. What a fun video!

Amazing 👍

Brazil 🇧🇷 and Mexico 🇲🇽 really battling it out for 19th place 😂 lol

CDMX tiene poco más de 20 M y en los 2000's era la ciudad más poblada del Mundo

Rome, the first city of the world with 1 million of people...130 BC

Now İstanbul is 20M

cool one. Rome fell off a cliff around 400 AD.

Pakistan is born in 1947 Before that it was Hindustan

In México left Tenōchtitlan and Chichen Itza. 👌🏼

En la vida, yo soy como Estambul. Subo y bajo, pero siempre estoy ahí.

It's really impressive to have Lisbon capital of Portugal, a country with just over 10 million people, in the top 10 of the world's largest cities throughout the 18th century. 🤯🤯🤯