Interesting, apparently my sleepy little town/suburb would be in the top 100 largest cities in Europe back then.
It is _really_ hard to wrap my head around London not just being more populous than Constantinople, but actually having _triple_ the population. London truly is the sardine can of metropolises.
Wild to see, how Budapest grew twentyfold since this dataset was compiled.
Liverpool larger than Moscow!
Athens leisurely growing 160614% 💀
Warsaw, Russia *insert Vietnam flashbacks meme*
Bucharest, Turkey
Well, fuck you too 😄
How is Edinburgh not there yet Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Paisley (!) are?!
The only city on this list which lost population is Kronstadt – 44k now.
Interesting how there’s both Prussia and Germany on the list
Also, jesus christ did they butcher the spelling of Leipzig and Lübeck
Edit: Konigsberg, Gratz, Stuttgard, Wirtemberg…it gets worse the more I look at it.
“Italy” didn’t Italy unite in 1861?
Something is off, no Edinburgh and no Kyiv, both had around 250K and 70K at that time.
Interesting how Prussia is a country, while other german states are not. Munich=Germany instead of Bavaria, Hamburg=Germany instead of, well, Hamburg.
(Germany was only united in 1871)
It would be great to compare with chinese cities on that year.
ITT Europeans discovering history and learning the world is not static lmao
wait, Germany in 1854?
Belfast was pretty high up.
Frankfort lol
I hoped to see “Oslo, Sweden” on here. But I guess it would have been “Kristiania” back then.
Debrecen? That was unexpected. From 74th in Europe to 200k town today.
Frankfort, lol
Oh yeah it was Constantinople back then 😓
I wonder why Bratislava (Back then Pressburg) isn’t on this, as it used to be capital of Hungary not that long before this list, and had population greater than bottom 5 cities on this list
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Interesting, apparently my sleepy little town/suburb would be in the top 100 largest cities in Europe back then.
It is _really_ hard to wrap my head around London not just being more populous than Constantinople, but actually having _triple_ the population. London truly is the sardine can of metropolises.
Wild to see, how Budapest grew twentyfold since this dataset was compiled.
Liverpool larger than Moscow!
Athens leisurely growing 160614% 💀
Warsaw, Russia *insert Vietnam flashbacks meme*
Bucharest, Turkey
Well, fuck you too 😄
How is Edinburgh not there yet Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen and Paisley (!) are?!
The only city on this list which lost population is Kronstadt – 44k now.
Interesting how there’s both Prussia and Germany on the list
Also, jesus christ did they butcher the spelling of Leipzig and Lübeck
Edit: Konigsberg, Gratz, Stuttgard, Wirtemberg…it gets worse the more I look at it.
“Italy” didn’t Italy unite in 1861?
Something is off, no Edinburgh and no Kyiv, both had around 250K and 70K at that time.
Interesting how Prussia is a country, while other german states are not. Munich=Germany instead of Bavaria, Hamburg=Germany instead of, well, Hamburg.
(Germany was only united in 1871)
It would be great to compare with chinese cities on that year.
Where is Kyiv/Kiev?
Ghent on the list but no Brussels. Interesting!
Riga, Russia. Oof.
Warsaw Russia 💀
US from a similar time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1860_United_States_census#City_rankings
Wild to think that Cincinnati was surpassing Milan and Brussels, and Louisville Kentucky was 3x the size of Athens.
Suspiciously exact numbers 🤔
What year is this from?
How England industrialized sooner than other countries, drawing people to its cities.
France was around 36.5M at that time
What would be UK was 27.5M population
Where is Vilnius? In 1836 it had 56k people and in 1875 – 82k.
Liverpool had a long fall in the following century, from the New York of Europe to industrial decline
Why does Livorno have an English name (Leghorn)?
Shouldn’t it be Ottoman Empire in that period?
– Berlin, Prussia
– Hamburg, Germany
– Breslau, Prussia
– Munich, Germany
Why?
Up cork 🇮🇪
ITT Europeans discovering history and learning the world is not static lmao
wait, Germany in 1854?
Belfast was pretty high up.
Frankfort lol
I hoped to see “Oslo, Sweden” on here. But I guess it would have been “Kristiania” back then.
Debrecen? That was unexpected. From 74th in Europe to 200k town today.
Frankfort, lol
Oh yeah it was Constantinople back then 😓
I wonder why Bratislava (Back then Pressburg) isn’t on this, as it used to be capital of Hungary not that long before this list, and had population greater than bottom 5 cities on this list
Kyiv, Ukraine 248,000 …. not even listed, shame
u/geography-lol234 do you have a source for this?