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According to the map of Edo illustrated in 1725, area for samurai occupied 66.4% of the total area of Edo (estimated population density: 13,988 /km 2 for 650,000 individuals), while areas for chōnin and temples-shrines occupied 12.5% (estimated chōnin population density: 68,807 /km 2 for 600,000 individuals) and 15.4% (estimated population ...
Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in the 1700s. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics, Volume 1 , pages 18 to 20, which cover population figures from the year 1700 divided into ...
Kyoto Shimbun newspaper in publication. [3] Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium opens. 1945 - Population: 866,153. [29] 1946 - November: National Sports Festival of Japan held in Kyoto. [30] 1950 - Population: 1,101,854. [18] 1955 - Kita-ku and Minami-ku wards created. [citation needed] 1956 - Kyoto designated a government ordinance city. [31] 1960
Estimating population sizes before censuses were conducted is a difficult task. [1] ... Kyoto: Japan 175,000 [38] –300,000 [56] ... 1700 1750 1800 1825 1850 1875 ...
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
Population % Change: Notes: 1: 3: Osaka: Osaka: 2,453,973 + 95.85%: Osaka merged with more surrounding municipalities in 1925, bringing the city to roughly its current size. The second Japanese city to pass 2 million people, and the new most populous city in Japan. 2: 1: Tokyo: Tokyo: 2,070,913 - 4.71%: Population briefly dipped below 2 million ...
As of 2020, the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it the ninth-most populous city in Japan. More than half (56.8%) of Kyoto Prefecture's population resides in the city. The city is the cultural anchor of the substantially larger Greater Kyoto, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) home to a census-estimated 3.8 million people.
Below is a 1696 map of Kyoto, known as Genroku 9 Kyoto Daizu (元禄九年京都大絵図) Archived 2016-10-08 at the Wayback Machine held by the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken). Old map of Kyoto