By 1800, London had grown to be the largest city in Western Europe with just under one million inhabitants. Paris was now the second largest city, with over half a million people, and Naples was the third largest city with 450 thousand people. The only other cities with over two hundred thousand inhabitants at this time were Vienna, Amsterdam and Dublin. Another noticeable development is the inclusion of many more northern cities from a wider variety of countries. The dominance of cities from France and Mediterranean countries was no longer the case, and the dispersal of European populations in 1800 was much closer to how it is today, more than two centuries later.
Largest cities in western Europe in 1800
(in 1,000s of inhabitants)
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Harvard University, & NBER. (March 1, 1992). Largest cities in western Europe in 1800 (in 1,000s of inhabitants) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 07, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1022001/thirty-largest-cities-western-europe-1800/
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