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Population Size Names diagram

Unnamed
0–30
This population is so small, there is no name for it.

Freeport, Kansas
Monowi, Nebraska

Hamlet
30–50
Can also be called a “band.”

None

Village
50–100
Can also be called a “tribe.”

Akhiok, Alaska

Small Town
100–1,000

Vatican City
Vernon, California

Medium Town
1,000–10,000

Christmas Island, the Falkland Islands, Montserrat
Hood River, Oregon

Large Town
10,000–100,000

Monaco, Liechtenstein, Greenland, Bermuda, Seychelles
Springfield, Oregon (Fictional)

City
100,000–300,000

Guam, Samoa, Barbados
Independence, Missouri
Peoria, Illinois

Large City
300,000–1,000,000

Iceland, Luxembourg, Guyana, Cyprus, Fiji
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Metropolis
1,000,000–3,000,000

Estonia, Qatar, Jamaica, Armenia
Chicago, Illinois
San Jose, California

Conurbation
3,000,000–10,000,000

Ireland, New Zealand, Palestine, Norway, Israel
Gotham City, New Jersey (Fictional)
Los Angeles, California
New York City, New York

Megalopolis
10,000,000–3.4B

Canada, the United States, India, China
Metropolis, Delaware (Fictional)

Ecumenopolis
3.4B–10B
This encompasses the largest possible population of our Earth. It is capped at ten billion people for this reason.

None


This webpage was originally published 3 October 2020 and was last modified 22 December 2021.