Скачать или смотреть The Rise of Megacities: World’s Largest Cities (1800–2025)

Watch over two centuries of urban growth as the world's biggest cities explode into modern megacities in this bar chart race.

This animation uses synthetic estimates of total population for major world cities from 1800 to 2025, generally using metropolitan or urban-agglomeration scale where that best reflects city size. Trends and magnitudes are loosely inspired by historical reconstructions and modern UN-style city rankings, but they do NOT match any single real-world dataset exactly.

All figures are approximate and for visualization/educational purposes only, not for formal demographic or urban-planning analysis.

0:00 1800–1849: Early industrial capitals
0:46 1850–1899: Railways & imperial cities
1:33 1900–1919: Pre-war global cities
1:52 1920–1949: Wars, crises & rebuilding
2:21 1950–1969: Postwar urban explosion
2:40 1970–1984: Early megacity era
2:53 1985–1999: Globalization & sprawl
3:08 2000–2012: 21st-century urban giants
3:20 2013–2025: Rise of Asian & African megacities

biggest cities, world cities, city population, bar chart race
megacities, urbanization, 1800 to 2025, data visualization
Tokyo population, Delhi population, Shanghai population, global cities
historical city data, animated statistics, urban growth, city rankings

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