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100 Biggest Cities of the Roman Empire on the Mare Nostrum

With the help of a map, can you name the 100 most populous cities of the Roman Empire located within roughly 15 miles of the Mediterranean Sea at its peak in 117 AD?
Includes all the marginal seas, except the Sea of Marmara (Propontis).
Sources used for population estimates listed in this Pastebin.
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Population
City
 
1,500,000
Roma
(Rome)
 
400,000
Alexandria
 
175,000
Antiochia ad Orontem
(Antakya)
 
100,000
Carthago
(Qartaj, Tunis)
 
75,000
Leptis Magna
(Al-Khums)
 
65,000
Pergamum
(Bergama)
 
50,000
Ptolemais
(Tolmeita)
 
50,000
Syracusae
(Syracuse)
 
47,000
Smyrna
(İzmir)
 
44,000
Capua
(Santa Maria Capua Vetere)
 
40,000
Laodicea ad Mare
(Latakia)
 
40,000
Rhodus
(Rhodes)
 
37,000
Caesarea Mauretaniae
(Cherchell)
 
35,000
Hadrumetum
(Sousse)
 
35,000
Ostia Antica
(Ostia)
 
33,000
Athenae
(Athens)
 
33,000
Nicopolis
(Preveza)
 
32,000
Berenice
(Benghazi)
 
32,000
Corinthus
(Corinth)
 
31,000
Ephesus
(Selçuk)
 
30,000
Mytilene
(Mytilini)
 
29,000
Narbo Martius
(Narbonne)
 
28,000
Altinum
(Altino)
 
28,000
Catana
(Catania)
 
28,000
Patavium
(Padua)
 
28,000
Pelusium
 
28,000
Seleucia Pieria
(Çevlik)
 
26,000
Alexandria Troas
(Dalyan)
 
26,000
Magarsus
(Dörtdirek)
 
24,000
Gortyna
(Gortyn)
 
23,000
Cos
(Kos)
 
23,000
Nuceria Alfaterna
(Nocera Superiore)
 
23,000
Rusicade
(Skikda)
 
22,000
Hierapytna
(Ierapetra)
Population
City
22,000
Messene
(Mavromati)
22,000
Neapolis
(Naples)
22,000
Puteoli
(Pozzuoli)
22,000
Tarentum
(Taranto)
22,000
Thessalonica
(Thessaloniki)
21,000
Cyrene
(Shahhat)
20,000
Paestum
(Paesto)
20,000
Samos
(Pythagoreio)
19,000
Aenus
(Enez)
19,000
Agrigentum
(Agrigento)
19,000
Halicarnassus
(Bodrum)
19,000
Myra
(Demre)
19,000
Paphus
(Paphos)
19,000
Patrae
(Patras)
19,000
Ptolemais Phoenicae
(Acre)
18,000
Caralis
(Cagliari)
18,000
Dyrrhachium
(Durrës)
17,000
Miletus
(Balat)
17,000
Teanum Sidicinum
(Teano)
17,000
Tarraco
(Tarragona)
16,000
Magnesia ad Maeandrum
(Tekin)
15,000
Cydonia
(Chania)
15,000
Picentia
(Pontecagnano Faiano)
15,000
Salamis
15,000
Seleucia ad Calycadnum
(Silifke)
14,000
Aquileia
14,000
Carthago Nova
(Cartagena)
14,000
Cumae
(Cuma)
14,000
Lilybaeum
(Marsala)
14,000
Magdolus
(Tell el-Heir)
14,000
Mylasa
(Milas)
14,000
Sicyon
(Sikyona)
14,000
Tegea
Population
City
14,000
Thaenae
(Thyna)
13,000
Canopus
(Abu Qir)
13,000
Clazomenae
(Urla)
13,000
Tarsus
12,000
Aquinum
(Aquino)
12,000
Cisamus
(Kissamos)
12,000
Erythrae
(Ildır)
12,000
Ilium
(Tevfikiye)
12,000
Teos
(Sığacık)
12,000
Uthina
(Mornag)
11,000
Caesarea Maritima
(Caesarea)
11,000
Cartennae
(Ténès)
11,000
Lacedaemon
(Sparta)
11,000
Regium
(Reggio Calabria)
11,000
Sidon
11,000
Telmessus
(Fethiye)
10,000
Antium
(Anzio)
10,000
Attaleia
(Antalya)
10,000
Brundisium
(Brindisi)
10,000
Cales
(Calvi Risorta)
10,000
Chalcis
10,000
Diospolis
(Lod)
10,000
Elis
10,000
Hippo Regius
(Annaba)
10,000
Megara
10,000
Messana
(Messina)
10,000
Myrina
(Aliağa)
10,000
Paraetonium
(Marsa Matrouh)
10,000
Perge
(Aksu)
10,000
Phlius
(Koutsi)
10,000
Salapia Vetus
10,000
Tyrus
(Tyre)
10,000
Utica
(Zana)
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3 Comments
Halderny
+2
Level 45
Aug 8, 2025
no way all these cities had perfectly round population numbers
Dekkie
+2
Level 55
Aug 8, 2025
you are evil and i sentence you to thousands of comment section nitpickers on a daily basis for rest of your life
MasterRocket
+1
Level 83
Aug 8, 2025
Have you ever tried to write large numbers using roman numerals?

The Romans used to round population figures to avoid paragraphs of numbers.

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