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Oldest and Most Populous Cities (Top 50, With Countries)

Guess the fifty oldest urban areas that have a population of at least million. Countries are also provided.
Urban area populations, from: https://www.citypopulation.de/en/world/agglomerations/.
The age is taken from the oldest permanently-inhabited part of the urban area. This is based on the oldest confirmed permanent settlement with at least a rough foundation date (unless that settlement was abandoned) or the first mention of the city in a document
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Last updated: April 4, 2021
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Age
Country
Population
City
9000 BC
Syria
3,900,000
Damascus
7250 BC
Jordan
5,700,000
Amman
c. 6500 BC
Turkey
3,050,000
İzmir
6500 BC
China
1,730,000
Handan
6000 BC
Iran
15,500,000
Tehran
6000 BC
Turkey
1,750,000
Adana
5200 BC
Turkey
2,125,000
Bursa
5000s BC
Bulgaria
1,300,000
Sofia
5000 BC
Syria
1,940,000
Aleppo
4800 BC
China
3,325,000
Ningbo
c. 4700 BC
China
7,100,000
Xi'an
4700 BC
China
1,150,000
Chifeng
c. 4100 BC
China
1,490,000
Tai'an
before 3000s BC
Egypt
21,500,000
Cairo
3500 BC
China
1,580,000
Xingtai
c. 3300 BC
Armenia
1,500,000
Yerevan
3300 BC
Palestine
2,025,000
Gaza
3000s BC
Turkey
1,700,000
Gaziantep
c. 3000 BC
China
7,550,000
Hong Kong
c. 3000 BC
Israel
1,010,000
Jerusalem
3000 BC
Turkey
1,330,000
Konya
c. 2700 BC
Iran
3,250,000
Isfahan
c. 2500 BC
China
5,400,000
Wenzhou
2500 BC
China
1,530,000
Zhangjiakou
2400s BC
Iraq
1,430,000
Mosul
Age
Country
Population
City
c. 2300s BC
Iraq
1,050,000
Kirkuk
2300 BC
Iraq
1,120,000
Erbil
before 2070 BC
China
5,100,000
Zhengzhou
2070 BC
China
2,650,000
Luoyang
2000s BC
China
1,270,000
Rizhao
2000s BC
India
1,230,000
Tiruchirappalli
c. 2000 BC
Turkey
5,150,000
Ankara
c. 2000 BC
Iran
1,800,000
Shiraz
c. 2000 BC
Japan
1,310,000
Hamamatsu
2000 BC
Iraq
7,150,000
Baghdad
2000 BC
China
1,750,000
Anyang
2000 BC
China
1,240,000
Baoji
1800 BC
Israel
2,725,000
Tel Aviv
1800 BC
India
1,970,000
Varanasi
c. 1600 BC
China
10,000,000
Chengdu
c. 1500 BC
China
9,250,000
Wuhan
before 1400 BC
Greece
3,500,000
Athens
1300s BC
Italy
3,500,000
Rome
c. 1200 BC
Portugal
2,500,000
Lisbon
c. 1159 BC
China
5,050,000
Changsha
1104 BC
Morocco
1,220,000
Agadir
1046 BC
China
1,090,000
Tengzhou
1045 BC
China
20,000,000
Beijing
1000s BC
Italy
4,150,000
Naples
1000s BC
Tunisia
1,170,000
Sousse
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