Statistics for Oldest and Most Populous Cities (Top 50)

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Age	Population	City	% Correct
7250 BC	5,700,000	Amman	93%
before 1400 BC	3,500,000	Athens	93%
1045 BC	20,000,000	Beijing	93%
c. 3000 BC	1,010,000	Jerusalem	93%
c. 2000 BC	5,150,000	Ankara	86%
2000 BC	7,150,000	Baghdad	86%
before 3000s BC	21,500,000	Cairo	86%
9000 BC	3,900,000	Damascus	86%
c. 6500 BC	3,050,000	İzmir	86%
6000 BC	15,500,000	Tehran	86%
c. 1200 BC	2,500,000	Lisbon	79%
1000s BC	4,150,000	Naples	79%
1300s BC	3,500,000	Rome	79%
c. 4700 BC	7,100,000	Xi'an	79%
5000 BC	1,940,000	Aleppo	71%
5000s BC	1,300,000	Sofia	64%
1800 BC	2,725,000	Tel Aviv	64%
c. 1500 BC	9,250,000	Wuhan	64%
c. 3300 BC	1,500,000	Yerevan	64%
c. 3000 BC	7,550,000	Hong Kong	57%
c. 1600 BC	10,000,000	Chengdu	50%
c. 2700 BC	3,250,000	Isfahan	50%
2400s BC	1,430,000	Mosul	50%
5200 BC	2,125,000	Bursa	43%
3000s BC	1,700,000	Gaziantep	36%
6000 BC	1,750,000	Adana	29%
c. 1159 BC	5,050,000	Changsha	29%
2300 BC	1,120,000	Erbil	29%
3300 BC	2,025,000	Gaza	29%
3000 BC	1,330,000	Konya	29%
2070 BC	2,650,000	Luoyang	29%
c. 2300s BC	1,050,000	Kirkuk	21%
c. 2000 BC	1,800,000	Shiraz	21%
1000s BC	1,170,000	Sousse	14%
1800 BC	1,970,000	Varanasi	14%
before 2070 BC	5,100,000	Zhengzhou	14%
1104 BC	1,220,000	Agadir	7%
6500 BC	1,730,000	Handan	7%
4800 BC	3,325,000	Ningbo	7%
1046 BC	1,090,000	Tengzhou	7%
c. 2500 BC	5,400,000	Wenzhou	7%
2000 BC	1,750,000	Anyang	0%
2000 BC	1,240,000	Baoji	0%
4700 BC	1,150,000	Chifeng	0%
c. 2000 BC	1,310,000	Hamamatsu	0%
2000s BC	1,270,000	Rizhao	0%
c. 4100 BC	1,490,000	Tai'an	0%
2000s BC	1,230,000	Tiruchirappalli	0%
3500 BC	1,580,000	Xingtai	0%
2500 BC	1,530,000	Zhangjiakou	0%