Top 10 Cities of the Year 100 Source: Four Thousand Years of

Urban Growth: An Historical Census by Tertius Chandler. 1987, St. David's University Press.

Population1 Rome

450,0002 Luoyang, China420,0003 Seleucia,Iraq250,0004 Alexandria, Egypt 250,0005 Antioch, Turkey150,0006 Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka130,0007 Peshawar, Pakistan 120,0008 Carthage, Tunisia100,0009 Suzhou, China n/a10 Smyrna, Turkey 90,000

Top 10 Cities of the Year 1000

Population1 Cordova, Spain450,0002 Kaifeng, China400,0003 Constantinople 300,0004 Angkor, Cambodia200,0005 Kyoto, Japan175,0006 Cairo, Egypt

135,0007 Baghdad, Iraq125,0008 Nishapur, Iran125,0009 Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia110,00010 Patan (Anhilwara), India 100,000

Top 10 Cities of the Year 1500

Population1 Beijing, China 672,0002 Vijayanagar, India 500,0003 Cairo, Egypt 400,000

4 Hangzhou, China250,0005 Tabriz, Iran250,0006 Constantinople 200,0007 Gaur, India200,0008 Paris, France185,0009 Guangzhou, China 150,00010 Nanjing, China 147,000

Top 10 Cities of the Year 1800

Population1 Beijing, China1,100,0002 London, United Kingdom 861,0003 Guangzhou, China 800,000

4 Edo (Tokyo), Japan 685,000

5 Istanbul, Turkey570,0006 Paris, France547,0007 Naples, Italy

430,0008 Hangzhou, China387,0009 Osaka, Japan383,00010 Kyoto, Japan 377,000

Top 10 Cities of the Year 1900

Population1 London

6,480,0002 New York

4,242,0003 Paris, France3,330,0004 Berlin, Germany2,707,0005 Chicago

1,717,0006 Vienna, Austria1,698,0007 Tokyo, Japan1,497,0008 St. Petersburg, Russia1,439,0009 Manchester, UK1,435,00010 Philadelphia1,418,000

Top 10 Cities of the Year 1950

Population1 New York12,463,0002 London8,860,0003 Tokyo, Japan7,000,0004 Paris, France5,900,0005 Shanghai, China5,406,0006 Moscow, Russia5,100,0007 Buenos Aires, Arg 5,000,000

8 Chicago4,906,0009 Ruhr, Germany4,900,00010 Kolkata, India4,800,000

Top 10 Cities of the Year 2010 Population1. Shanghai 13,831,9002. Mumbai

13,830,8843. Karachi

12,991,0004. Delhi

12,565,9015. Istanbul

11,372,6136. Sao Paulo 11,037,5937. Moscow 10,508,9718. Seoul 10,464,0519. Beijing

10,123,0010. Mexico City 8,841,916

Megacity Trends

• 1950s: 4 megacities cities with a population greater than 5 million, all in industrialized countries• 1985: 28• 2000: 39• currently worldwide 16, 24 or 39 megacities, depending ondefinition; Roughly 394.2 million people live in megacities

• 2015: estimated almost 60 Megacities, roughly 604.4 million people.• Two thirds of the megacities are now in developing countries, mostof them in East and South Asia.

• Mexico City, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Jakarta and Teheran - thepopulation figures almost tripled between 1970 and 2000

The world’s megacities

1. Bangalore2. Bangkok3. Beijing4. Bogotá5. Buenos Aires6. Cairo7. Calcutta8. Chennai9. Chicago10.Delhi11.Dhaka12.Hong Kong13.Hyderabad14.Istanbul

15. Jakarta16. Karachi17. Kinshasa18. Lagos19. Lahore20. Lima21. London22. Los Angeles23. Manila24. Mexico25. Moscow26. Mumbai27.New York28.Osaka

29.Paris30.Rhine-RuhrNorth31.Rio de Janeiro32.Santiago deChile33.São Paulo34.Seoul35.Shanghai36.Teheran37.Tianjin38.Tokyo39.Wuhan