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 👋🇮🇶✌🦁🥇

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

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

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

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…

My city has 7,000 inhabitants (2024).

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

"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!

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

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？

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

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

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

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

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.

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🇨🇳

I couldn't find the matched source... Help me where is the source of the video based on

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

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

Rome you will be forever in my heart❤️

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

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!

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

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.

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Pakistan make in 1947 and why are found in bc 😂😂

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.

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

So good. Keep it up

Istanbul is the most consistent city in this list

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

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.

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

Mano a mano entre CDMX y SP 🇲🇽🇧🇷

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.

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

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

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.

Iraq, my home 🇮🇶❤️

Super video 👍 go 1M

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

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!!!!

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

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.

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. ❤🇬🇧❤

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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.

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

العراق موطن البشرية 😢❤

O vídeo é interessante mas acho bem difícil ter a precisão correta da população nessa época as pessoas viviam pouco e mau. Eu com 40 anos ja seria idoso.

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

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

Outstanding!

Baghdad 💔

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

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

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

Why you show Syracuse like a greek city and all the others geeek cities in asie minor with turkish flags ? turkey dident exist then . There was only greeks in Constantinople, ephese and all this other greek cities. Thank you to change the flags 🧐

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

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

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

Harappa & mohenjodaro civilization is the part o f Indian history....Pakistan doesn't exit at that time ...they don't teach this to their students because it was the part of Indian history

高度経済成長期の東京すごいな

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

where is rome , vijaynagar

After the fall of Rome, nothing's happening in Europe for 1000 years? ...or perhaps 1000 years was added to the Western calendars, and we have the Renaissance.

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 👍

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

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.

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

Your predictive chart shows, in particular, Lagos as the largest city. You obviously didn't account for sea level rise predicting that Lagos among many other major cities like Mumbai, Shanghai and New York, will be under water by 2100. Virtually every coastal, port city will have major issues to solve. And of course that many people not having a place to live will be globally disruptive. In that time will technology and money come up with enough resources to solve for the damage ultimately caused by . . . technology and money.

Pakistan is born in 1947 Before that it was Hindustan

I doubt all these numbers now. And names of cities and countries they belonged to were not accurate. Tehran in Iran has had over 10 million residents for the past 3 decades but never made it to this chart. Also have to mention that most of the middle east including Iraq, Syria, Turkey, Parts of today's Pakistan, and even parts of Egypt were under territorial lands of the ancient Iran, so called Persia by Romans, until 600 AD. I read comments about inaccuracy from Japan and Germany here. So, this seems to be only a fun video and not based on real numbers.

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

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) ...

This video is a joke. Hong Kong had a population of 1.6 million in 1941, and 2.2 million in 1950, yet it never shows up on your list. Maybe it’s not even considered a city by your standard.

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In bc period there was no Pakistan. You should show the india one.

Byzzantium was a super power at that time and now Iraq is being destroyed by a super power country at this time, justice must prevail, not forever a nation will become a super power

wow, many historical cities of Pakistan are on the list and Lahore + Karachi makes me proud of my country. thanks for making this video ❤️

Queria entender o que aconteceu com Roma quando o império caiu. Não pode ter passado da maior cidade do mundo e sumido da lista em só dois ou três anos. A cidade não foi arrasada.

Nigeria has freaking Black magic in their country

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

Porque no esta Tenochtitlán?

nice video!

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

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. 🤯🤯🤯

The Middle East was the birthplace and it was where many Biblical things happened too!😁✝️♥️

Fes and Marrakech ❤❤

Totally forgot perspolis and tisphon wa around the year 500 was capital of sasanid and before that partian of ancient Iran

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