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Limits RegistryAncient Rome is generally estimated to have reached roughly one million inhabitants around the reign of Augustus, at the turn of the first century BCE and CE, making it the first city to do so. No other European city reached that size again until London around 1800, though ancient population figures are estimates based on grain distributions and housing records.
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Ancient Rome is generally estimated to have reached roughly one million inhabitants around the reign of Augustus, at the turn of the first century BCE and CE, making it the first city to do so. No other European city reached that size again until London around 1800, though ancient population figures are estimates based on grain distributions and housing records.
The estimated population of the first city in history generally believed to have reached one million inhabitants.
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Limits Registry. LR-FIRST-CITY-TO-REACH-ONE-MILLION. First city to reach a population of one million. 2026.