Biggest Cities in the Modern World (1100 – 2050)
This animated ranking shows the world's largest cities from AD 1100 to 2050, where figures from 1975 are UN urban centres on a 1 km² grid and those after 2025 are projections.
Data sources
Chandler (1987) via Reba, Reitsma and Seto (2016), and the United Nations Population Division (2025).
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