Every City in the Roman Empire

Can you name every area in the Roman Empire that was classified as a city?

Population estimates are for the 1st century AD

Source: Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD (page 42)

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Est. Population	City	Country
350,000	Rome	Italy
216,000	Alexandria	Egypt
90,000	Antioch	Türkiye
90,000	Smyrna	Türkiye
65,000	Cádiz	Spain
51,000	Ephesus	Türkiye
50,000	Carthage	Tunisia
50,000	Corinth	Greece
37,000	Apamea	Syria
36,000	Capua	Italy
34,000	Ancyra	Türkiye
34,000	Memphis	Egypt
34,000	Nicomedia	Türkiye
34,000	Oxyrhyncus	Egypt
31,000	Damascus	Syria
30,000	Bostra	Syria
28,000	Athens	Greece
27,000	Terragona	Spain
24,000	Cyzicus	Türkiye
24,000	Hermopolis	Egypt
24,000	Pergamum	Türkiye
23,000	Mytilene	Greece
20,000	Arsinoe	Egypt
20,000	Cirta	Algeria
20,000	Córdoba	Spain

Est. Population	City	Country
20,000	Hadrumetum	Tunisia
20,000	Pisa	Italy
20,000	Rusicade	Algeria
20,000	Tyre	Lebanon
18,000	Catania	Italy
18,000	Nicaea	Türkiye
16,000	Antinoe	Egypt
16,000	Sicca Veneria	Tunisia
15,000	Mérida	Spain
15,000	Miletus	Türkiye
15,000	Naples	Italy
14,000	Heliopolis	Egypt
13,500	Baalbek	Lebanon
13,000	Thugga	Tunisia
12,000	Isaura	Türkiye
12,000	Sidon	Lebanon
10,000	Bologna	Italy
10,000	Cartagena	Spain
10,000	Hippo Regius	Algeria
10,000	Jerusalem	Israel
10,000	Lambraesis	Algeria
10,000	Pamplona	Spain
10,000	Thysdrus	Tunisia
10,000	Trebizond	Türkiye

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