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

[@48JCL]

Japan back then: pls stop having kids, we are in a population crisis Japan now: pls have kids, we are in a population crisis

[@zazzer_]

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

[@phunweng962]

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

[@azuren422]

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

[@weitnerscheckanberden4405]

you're clearly confusing japan and china

[@kanac6075]

@@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

[@anotheraggieburneraccount]

Tenochtitlán disappearing and then coming back 400 years later as Mexico City was crazy

[@stevejones4010]

Great video as always 👍 Thanks.

[@user-ge3zv7wn5l]

Japan will always remain Japan. There is always an emperor. Ashikaga and Tokugawa are just names of governments, just like the Abe administration.

[@user-yn1mu2eb8t]

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

[@wilburwood8261]

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

[@user-yn1mu2eb8t]

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

[@wilburwood8261]

@@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.

[@user-yn1mu2eb8t]

@@wilburwood8261 tokugawa

[@springlink3188]

I was really surprised about Angkor and Oyo Ile. While I knew they were large urban centers, I didn't know (especially for Oyo) that they were at one point one of the largest cities on earth. Wow

[@sexsexsexsexsexsex80]

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

[@user-bc6cb2mr8c]

around 1900s, every city on the list is industrial city, all the cities of China and India no longer on. The power of industrialization 😮

[@paulwilliammurphy1327]

Shanghai isn’t even the most populated city in China. China has resident permit system , only holders of the permits are included in official population statistics but in reality many more millions of non resident holders live full time in these cities.

[@bryantsteury8910]

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

[@paulwilliammurphy1327]

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 .

[@leungleung3634]

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

[@paulwilliammurphy1327]

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.

[@leungleung3634]

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

[@sanchezking6188]

It took almost 800 years to get to 1 million and then just about 200-250 to get to almost 40 million. Very interesting data/video!

[@MustraOrdo]

Industrial Revolution and its consequences

[@rangercommandervelvlarumai7589]

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

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

And Alexander Fleming

[@bryantsteury8910]

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

[@bluegrasskid4835]

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

[@hoodies7244]

I knew there will be cities from my country and my close neighbours: 1:09 - 1:56 Merv (Seljuk), nowadays known as Mary (Turkmenistan) 3:49 - 4:07 Samarkand (Timurid) nowadays the city name is the same in our neighbour country Uzbekistan

[@lordbaldohomero]

Constantinople the most relevant city in history

[@Seventh7Art]

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

[@user-cm1pq3dc3k]

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

[@Seventh7Art]

@@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.

[@mrguire5192]

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

[@Alex_R88]

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

[@Bosspisit]

4:52 The Ayutthaya Kingdom or the Empire of Ayutthaya was a Siamese kingdom that existed in Southeast Asia from 1351 to 1767, centered around the city of Ayutthaya, in Siam, or present-day Thailand.

[@amysylvester7289]

Largest City over Time: 1000 - 1279: Kaifeng 🇨🇳 1279 - 1363: Hangzhou 🇨🇳 1363 - 1368: Beijing 🇨🇳 1368 - 1390: Cairo 🇪🇬 1390 - 1393: Vijayanagar 🇮🇳 1393 - 1411: Nanjing 🇨🇳 1411 - 1450: Vijayanagar 🇮🇳 1450 - 1584: Beijing 🇨🇳 1584 - 1705: Constantinople (Istanbul) 🇹🇷 1705 - 1825: Beijing 🇨🇳 1825 - 1923: London 🇬🇧 1923 - 1957: New York City 🇺🇸 1957 - Present: Tokyo 🇯🇵

[@wilburwood8261]

It seems Delhi is going to overtake us soon..

[@eckert7875]

Berlin in 1920 was the third largest city in the world by population and second largest by size.

[@pidttabh1122]

Dhaka✊🇧🇩

[@ashwinkumar8409]

What would be the source for these data?

[@pink449]

Between 1127 - 1279 AD, Northern China was no longer part of Song. It was invaded by Jin (Manchu?) so I think Beijing and Kaifeng should not have the Song flag but the Jin flag.

[@foxlen8114]

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.

[@achernareridani3733]

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

[@wfa6330]

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

[@pink449]

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

[@ussr-91126]

I think kaifeng isn't that north

[@waltermatthewberg]

Baghdad had at least 800,000, maybe a million, people by the time of the Mongol's sack of Baghdad in 1258. Maybe they weren't all residents and some of them fled to the inner walls of the city from outside but almost all of them were killed within a week.

[@Minimuffkiller07]

very impressiv how many people can live in one city

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Uncomfortable

[@user-sm2he8gl5b]

I was surprised to learn that there was a time when Osaka and Kyoto had larger populations than Tokyo.

[@wilburwood8261]

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.

[@felipeemanuel5790]

Kyoyto used to be the capital of japan.

[@user-ys5ov2xm4s]

Tokyo used to be just a swamp.

[@rolandkrueger2986]

How can I create such a statistic movie by my own? What SW is behind?

[@williamharrison7523]

Its amazing how you can also see the effect of the black death from 1446 to 1453 at 4:20

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Byzantine empire time?? How many countries did it effect

[@williamharrison7523]

@@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.

[@jcbw9975]

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

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

@@williamharrison7523 black death and plague is different??

[@williamharrison7523]

@@jcbw9975 Yeah my mistake.

[@sho8567]

Ironically, Japan's birth rate continues to decline, and if this trend continues, it is reported that by 2100, the population of Tokyo will decrease to about half its current size.

[@Brunofelix93]

O Rio de Janeiro é ultrapassado por são paulo de maneira a avassaladora. Queria entender esse boom populacional de SP nos anos 60.

[@lucasvasconcelos5705]

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

[@Brunofelix93]

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

[@yosef3977]

​@@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.

[@Brunofelix93]

@@yosef3977 belo texto mano👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@RoberioRoberioRoberio]

​@@yosef3977 aprecio toda a informação que o senhor nos dá, amigo 🙏🙏

[@jaroslaval9159]

I had NO idea about Tokyo!

[@HelloEzhe]

Where is the data from? It feels kinda strange.

[@SHYang-bf5pj]

2050: 1billion indian people in Delhi sing and dance "dudu rudu dadad" together ！😮😮

[@fatimadouro8948]

SAO PAULO, BRASIL: 11.450.000 AND REGIAO METROPOLITANA WITH LITLE CITIES: 22.000.000. CITY AND OTHERS AROUND IT.

[@munen0r1]

As a municipality, Tokyo has a population of about 14 million on January 1, 2024.The last 37 million people in this video are a staggering population around Tokyo, but I think it's ambiguous how far you consider Tokyo.

[@SAKANAYA_OSAKANA]

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。

[@Cgursvhhcstjjfde]

@@SAKANAYA_OSAKANA英語で言い返せないのがダサいな

[@astronova3508]

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

[@SashaNika]

It’s scary to watch how empires die and arise; people have suffered for centuries and are still suffering...

[@trollmcclure2659]

says the guy with the flag imperial japan

[@echnatonazar]

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

[@Alcatraz759]

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

[@redhidinghood9337]

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.

[@xenotypos]

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

[@zaztube]

you’d be surprised if you knew the population in tokyo is only around 16 million. that 37 sth is a whole region including different prefectures and large cities like yokohama/kanagawa, chiba, ibaraki and so on.

[@user-pn3im5sm7k]

"only"

[@astronova3508]

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

[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

I’d really love to see the spreadsheet for 1632. I have a germ of a story idea, but I don’t know the world of the time outside of Europe well enough. In other words I’m looking for a place to set the story.

[@badapple2221]

Depends on what kind of place you need for your story

[@waynesworldofsci-tech]

@@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?

[@badapple2221]

@@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.

[@badapple2221]

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

[@BoterKat]

​@@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 🙏

[@Nothing_here1204]

Ming was popping off for a few years

[@Britinsweden]

I didn’t ever think my home city Manchester will be there 😂

[@pelMANnnn]

Europe in 1960:bye bye

[@Observator-nh6zm]

My city, Hangzhou, became the largest 700years ago! Couldn't image how prosperous she is🎉

[@yangpaul1478]

Keifeng was not belonged to Song Dynasty since 1127, as the city was ruled by Jin Dynasty(established by Jurchenese) from 1127 to 1234 and Mongol(Yuen Dynasty) since 1234. Beijing was never part of Song Dynasty, and it was under Mongol rule since 1218 and became capital of Yuen Dynasty since 1271.

[@MrShadowMaster847]

London 1813: I ain't bothered about 1st London 1815; I'm bothered about 1st

[@theominousu6484]

Beijing and Kaifeng belonged to Jin Dynasty after Jurchen invasion, when the emperor of Song became captive and imprisoned in Manchuria.

[@ArtoriusGiangus]

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

[@yexinqu4357]

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.

[@a.bergstrom7172]

Like how he casually repeated measures 13-24 to make the song the right length

[@NEPO_77]

Chola exists till 16th century in the world is amazing

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Ahemdabad or Agra??

[@NEPO_77]

@@PortugalZeroworldcup what do u mean I cant understand

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

​@@NEPO_77were those cities more popular?

[@Sidimpuandekorasi_pasid]

Req.penyebaran agama Islam di dunia bos q

[@FSD-yi1vz]

New York State has a population of 18M the city is about half of that.

[@allydr90]

These might be metro areas

[@NapoleanBlown-aparte]

Does anyone know where the modern day oyo empire is because their flag is swag af

[@zhen_r_zyt1286]

Around 1200 it’s no longer Song that governs Beijing but Jin金. This regime has captured northern China.

[@endlessfreedomful]

Beijing has never been a part of Song Dynasty ever, it was under control by Jin Dynasty then by Yuan after, during this period of time.

[@PatrickF7]

anyway it's still China

[@user-hc5cg3jc3i]

所以呢？他们还是中国朝代，不管朝代怎么变化和变迁。

[@Harriet-Jesamine]

What happened at Kaifeng in 1280 AD?

[@Einstain-wq1lr]

Babarian invading

[@hayattaolmaz614]

what is the musics name

[@a.b.c.8816]

Why does Kaifeng disappear from the classification in 1280?

[@annahnorman3342]

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

[@SueAnye]

WHAT WAS YOUR MISSION IS SHANGHAI??

[@Chrono0dr-qn7vu]

Im not a history buff so I have no clue but how in the world did cities with 300k+ population just vaporize? Where in the world did the almost 800k people in Kaifeng go?????

[@bheer98]

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.

[@teoartur2930]

Qual é a fonte dessa informação? Como posso saber se ela está correta?

[@felipeemanuel5790]

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

[@wp8022]

What's the source of these figures? For example, regarding Vienna I know it was about 2.1 million inhabitants around 1910.

[@hukuuchi]

What would happen if the graph continued to 2100? Emage will many cities in Africa like Lagos, Kinshasa, and Addis Ababa. I cannot predict what to the Nusantara new Capital🙄

[@RovingKegs]

Fun graph - but taken with a huge pinch of salt. Just one obvious inaccuracy: Kaifeng was controlled by the Jin dynasty from 1127 to about 1233

[@Hegros_]

I did not know that aztecs had city agromeration with over 250k peaple .

[@Alex_R88]

вот что значит техническая революция...

[@lifewalk244]

Sorry the graphic is bullshit. Tokyo has 8M people the urban vicinty has 35M. If you count like this Seoul would have 25M for example (core city around 10M). Same for others

[@umutt34]

While the largest cities used to represent the world's superpowers, today they represent underdeveloped countries (except for the first 3 countries).

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

Which is sad news Hence all the confusion in the world

[@xenotypos]

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.

[@GeneratedElectricity]

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

[@PortugalZeroworldcup]

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

[@Go_to_suicide]

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

[@bearpolo3618]

The stats of Chinese cities are definitely questionable. Chongqing is the most populated city in China today, not Shanghai. This is so inaccurate.

[@tommyliangwei3724]

No this video, it's just the year 2023.

[@SD-it5ko]

Haven't seen the 3 big Flanders cities Ghent, Bruges or Ipres in there. Can't be accurate.

[@wilburwood8261]

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

[@astronova3508]

Those are all tiny cities, lmao what.

[@Marclee37hk]

what is the meaning of the number at the top row, is that the nuimber of residents at that time? better add a note on this. i had been guessing if it is the area of cities. i did not know that the tokyo has more than 37M residents? is it a very very large area

[@Sceptonic]

Read the title of the video carefully

[@b.j.likeseverything1906]

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

[@Sceptonic]

@@b.j.likeseverything1906 ye

[@Marclee37hk]

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

[@Sceptonic]

@@Marclee37hk ye

[@kumaraanu]

Vijayanagara empire - one of the wealthiest empire in world during medivel era

[@visnjevacfinalboss]

Wher višnjevac?

[@swi9135]

Too bad no Tenochtitlan, which was one of the largest cities in the world in the 1400-1500’s

[@ayjay23]

4:17 it’s there

[@Jesse_E5150]

And it came back later (Mexico City)

[@JXY2019]

Chicago had a good one century run from 1880-1980. It’s interesting how for all human history the greatest economic centers were the biggest cities until about 1990, then you get the massive slum cities.

[@user-pn6vh5kz1b]

the corrupt politicians get a nice solid footing and ruin it

[@markskibo5159]

I guess I'm from a small town here in LA

[@rogerblackwell]

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.

[@nooneknowsme3706]

The capacity of Tokyo city is already over . Too many population do harm than good ...Government should move to Kyoto . From Tokyo 😅😅😅

[@touwenwaterman1229]

Where is Jakarta?? Is the world's second largest city nowadays..

[@ilshatt]

I got here for the cities, stayed for the Egmont.

[@Restrocket]

At the middle of the XVIII century almost all the cities are eastern asian. That's crazy. I always thought at this time Europe was absolutely dominant in every sphere

[@arizona_anime_fan]

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.

[@waski4050]

Kyiv was Polnad btw :D

[@rodrigofilho1996]

Rome got to 1M pop in the second century, not let that sink in....

[@taiwanstillisntacountry]

Why is Chongqing not on this list?

[@user-he8ti4gp7l]

I love Tokyo！ Edo is the previous name of Tokyo.

[@papiii_chulo]

Istanbul, the biggest city of Europe, is in Turkiye 🇹🇷 wow!

[@lasvista2tech]

I’m more interested in years 0 to 1000

[@kinkin7194]

Song did not own Beijing,

[@cesarloretto4476]

Tenochtitlán is missing

[@jaimeebg]

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

[@royroland3884]

Then it disappears in 1521 lol.

[@eduardovaldivia5572]

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

[@saftmixerdestodes6209]

jakarta is completly missing.

[@hellyoliveira7428]

São Paulo 20.600.000 Censo 2022.

[@BasicNoobs]

Edo benin is missing

[@NoName-ws4se]

Dhaka 💀💀🗿🗿

[@djaninevo8250]

datas used are not coherent. some values used for some cities correspond to the county and not just the city

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz0]

Lol why do you spell Kyiv but Kievan?

[@xdtaux]

It is native name of the city.

[@grzegorzbrzeczyszczykiewicz0]

@xdtaux Then why isnt it Kyivan?

[@jamesbowman8138]

They are starting to use the whole metropolitan area as oppose city only city .

[@user-cc7pq8rf5x]

震惊1939的东京居然比柏林还要城市化

[@user-hc5cg3jc3i]

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

[@ReskiYanuardi]

Jakarta?

[@stormandersen4788]

rome?

[@user-dn9qv6px6m]

東京こんなに人いる？ 23区で800万とかじゃなかったっけ？

[@user-ud9kb5bl8q]

行政区域の話ではなく都市圏のくくりでの統計だよ。

[@romchik6952]

Ну хотя бы наши Москва, Питер и Киев были ,уже успех 🤔

[@ektelion7428]

крепостной в стойло

[@hellman2530]

И давно Киев вашим стал?)

[@romchik6952]

@@hellman2530 Со времён князя Олега)

[@xdtaux]

​@@romchik6952Вы из Швеции ?

[@ruslan8465]

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

[@brunoalbuquerquemagoco3728]

São Paulo é a maior cidade do ocidente e do hemisfério sul

[@MonCompteTubulaire]

Impressed how big were first Palermo and Napoli agglomerations. Then Milan, and later Geona and Venice. But Roma never appeared. Vienna doesn't appear until 20th century, that's crazy. Paris appeared to be a big world capital for centuries but now it's just a repair for africans to get wages for playing playstation. And a crack dealing place.

[@user-kx3fq1zo6f]

New York's population was never over 9 million.

[@VahidTaei-hg5xk]

in iran esfahan . tabriz . mashhad

[@user-lz9po8xi4n]

В Нью-Йорке и Токио столько людей не проживают.

[@croissantmike4220]

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

[@Great_Fenix]

С агломерациями считают наверное

[@gerbilpmc]

@@croissantmike4220they are counting the metro area population

[@Great_Fenix]

По ходу в Токио и Осаке всё население страны живёт практически

[@danpak340]

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

[@user-ig5wx6mz5r]

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.

[@supinlin]

Hello,Kaifeng is Song Dynasty before 1127,but it is Jin Dynasty after 1127.

[@AlexeyVsemogushii]

Меньше народу - больше кислороду

[@adelineyan7809]

so China basically stays on top for most of the time until in modern times.