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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Level 45

Aug 8, 2025

no way all these cities had perfectly round population numbers

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

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.

Source: MMMDCCCLXXXVIII

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