| City | Year Became #1 |
Population Information |
| Memphis, Egypt | 3100 BCE | Well over 30,000 |
| Akkad, Babylonia (Iraq) | 2240 | |
| Lagash, Babylonia (Iraq) | 2075 | |
| Ur, Babylonia (Iraq) | 2030 | 65,000 |
| Thebes, Egypt | 1980 | |
| Babylon, Babylonia (Iraq) | 1770 | |
| Avaris, Egypt | 1670 | |
| Memphis, Egypt | 1557 | |
| Thebes, Egypt | 1400 | |
| Nineveh, Assyria (Iraq) | 668 | |
| Babylon, Babylonia (Iraq) | 612 | First above 200,000 |
| Alexandria | 320 | |
| Pataliputra (Patna), India | 300 | |
| Changan (Xi'an), China | 195 | 400,000 |
| Rome | 25 | 450,000 (100 CE) |
| Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey | 340 CE | 400,000 (500) |
| Ctesiphon, Iraq | 570 | |
| Changan (Xi'an), China | 637 | 400,000 (622); 600,000 (800) |
| Baghdad, Iraq | 775 | First over 1 million; 700,000 (800) |
| Cordova, Spain | 935 | |
| Kaifeng, China | 1013 | 400,000 (1000); 442,000 (1100) |
| Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey | 1127 | |
| Merv (Mary), Turkmenistan | 1145 | 200,000 (1150) |
| Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey | 1153 | |
| Fez (Fes), Morocco | 1170 | |
| Hangzhou, China | 1180 | 255,000 (1200); 320,000 (1250) |
| Cairo, Egypt | 1315 | |
| Hangzhou, China | 1348 | 432,000 (1350) |
| Nanking, China | 1358 | 487,000 (1400) |
| Beijing, China | 1425 | 600,000 (1450); 672,000 (1500) |
| Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey | 1650 | 700,000 (1650 & 1700) |
| Beijing, China | 1710 | 900,000 (1750); 1.1 million (1800) |
| London, United Kingdom | 1825 | First over 5 million; 1.35 million (1825); 2.32 million (1850); 4.241 million (1875); 6.480 million (1900) |
| New York | 1925 | First over 10 million; 7.774 million (1925), 12.463 million (1950) |
| Tokyo | 1965 | First over 20 million; 23 million (1975) |
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