For comparison, the population of the largest urban areas of France, Germany, the Low Countries, and the UK in 1900. The figures here aggregate the cities and their suburbs as they existed in 1900 (by 1900, many European cities had grown beyond their municipal borders). The figures have been computed by the Geopolis research group, using the population censuses of each country + detailed ordnance maps of 1900.
Population of the urban areas in 1900:
- London: 6,507,000
- Paris: 3,733,000
- Berlin: 2,644,000
- Manchester (incl. Rochdale and many other suburbs): 1,920,000
- Birmingham: 1,360,000
- Ruhr: 1,300,000
- Leeds: 1,004,000
- Hamburg: 983,000
- Liverpool: 963,000
- Glasgow (incl. Paisley and many other suburbs): 867,000
- Newcastle: 688,000
- Brussels: 650,000
- Amsterdam: 524,000
- Munich: 519,000
- Lyon: 508,000
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only a few urban areas available below 500,000 inh.
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- Marseille: 481,000
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- Rotterdam: 372,000
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