When Cities Emerged Worldwide (IMAGE)

Yale School of the Environment

When Cities Emerged Worldwide

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The figure shows the year of the first recorded population value for each city in the dataset. Cities recording the earliest first population data point are pictured in red and are centered near Mesopotamia, while cities with the most recent first population data point are pictured in dark blue.

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Esri, HERE, DeLorme, MapmyIndia, ©OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS user community

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