This fascinating and dynamic bar chart by John Burn-Murdoch of the Financial Times (via Jane Friedman‘s website) shows the relative populations of the world’s 10 largest cities from 1500 to 2018.
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Follow Paris! It only dropped off in many of our lifetimes!