2. 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.
Population
1 Rome ,000
2 Luoyang, China ,000
3 Seleucia,Iraq ,000
4 Alexandria, Egypt 250,000
5 Antioch, Turkey ,000
6 Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka 130,000
7 Peshawar, Pakistan 120,000
8 Carthage, Tunisia ,000
9 Suzhou, China n/a
10 Smyrna, Turkey 90,000

3. Top 10 Cities of the Year 1000
Population
1 Cordova, Spain ,000
2 Kaifeng, China ,000
3 Constantinople ,000
4 Angkor, Cambodia ,000
5 Kyoto, Japan ,000
6 Cairo, Egypt ,000
7 Baghdad, Iraq ,000
8 Nishapur, Iran ,000
9 Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia 110,000
10 Patan (Anhilwara), India 100,000

4. Top 10 Cities of the Year 1500
Population
1 Beijing, China ,000
2 Vijayanagar, India 500,000
3 Cairo, Egypt ,000
4 Hangzhou, China 250,000
5 Tabriz, Iran ,000
6 Constantinople ,000
7 Gaur, India ,000
8 Paris, France ,000
9 Guangzhou, China 150,000
10 Nanjing, China 147,000

5. Top 10 Cities of the Year 1800
Population
1 Beijing, China ,100,000
2 London, United Kingdom 861,000
3 Guangzhou, China ,000
4 Edo (Tokyo), Japan ,000
5 Istanbul, Turkey ,000
6 Paris, France ,000
7 Naples, Italy ,000
8 Hangzhou, China ,000
9 Osaka, Japan ,000
10 Kyoto, Japan ,000

6. Top 10 Cities of the Year 1900
Population
1 London ,480,000
2 New York ,242,000
3 Paris, France ,330,000
4 Berlin, Germany 2,707,000
5 Chicago ,717,000
6 Vienna, Austria 1,698,000
7 Tokyo, Japan ,497,000
8 St. Petersburg, Russia 1,439,000
9 Manchester, UK 1,435,000
10 Philadelphia ,418,000

7. Top 10 Cities of the Year 1950
Population
1 New York ,463,000
2 London ,860,000
3 Tokyo, Japan 7,000,000
4 Paris, France 5,900,000
5 Shanghai, China 5,406,000
6 Moscow, Russia 5,100,000
7 Buenos Aires, Arg 5,000,000
8 Chicago ,906,000
9 Ruhr, Germany 4,900,000
10 Kolkata, India 4,800,000

8. Top 10 Cities of the Year 2010
Population
1. Shanghai ,831,900
2. Mumbai ,830,884
3. Karachi ,991,000
4. Delhi ,565,901
5. Istanbul ,372,613
6. Sao Paulo ,037,593
7. Moscow ,508,971
8. Seoul ,464,051
9. Beijing ,123,00
10. Mexico City ,841,916

15. 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 on
definition; Roughly million people live in megacities
• 2015: estimated almost 60 Megacities, roughly million people.
• Two thirds of the megacities are now in developing countries, most
of them in East and South Asia.
• Mexico City, São Paulo, Seoul, Mumbai, Jakarta and Teheran - the
population figures almost tripled between 1970 and 2000

16. The world’s megacities
1. Bangalore
2. Bangkok
3. Beijing
4. Bogotá
5. Buenos Aires
6. Cairo
7. Calcutta
8. Chennai
9. Chicago
10.Delhi
11.Dhaka
12.Hong Kong
13.Hyderabad
14.Istanbul
15. Jakarta
16. Karachi
17. Kinshasa
18. Lagos
19. Lahore
20. Lima
21. London
22. Los Angeles
23. Manila
24. Mexico
25. Moscow
26. Mumbai
27.New York
28.Osaka
29.Paris
30.Rhine-Ruhr
North
31.Rio de Janeiro
32.Santiago de
Chile
33.São Paulo
34.Seoul
35.Shanghai
36.Teheran
37.Tianjin
38.Tokyo
39.Wuhan