Demographic history of Scotland towns had populations of over 10,000, with the capital, Edinburgh, the largest with 57,000 inhabitants. The Highland and Lowland Clearances led to the depopulation of rural areas, but overall the population of Scotland grew rapidly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. By 1801 it had reached 1,608,420 and it grew to 2,889,000 in 1851 and 4,472,000 in 1901. By the beginning of the twentieth century, one in three lived in the four cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen. Glasgow emerged as the largest city, with a population of 762,000 by 1901, making it "the Second City of the
Largest cities in Japan by population by decade Meiji Mergers" cut the number of municipalities in Japan by more than three quarters, while dramatically increasing the size of many cities as they absorbed their surrounding towns and villages. Source data is from the 1891 Imperial Japanese Registered Household Report (日本帝国民籍戸口表). Source data is from the 1898 Imperial Japanese Population Statistics (日本帝国人口統計). Source data is from the 1908 Imperial Japanese Population Statistics (日本帝国人口統計). Source data is from the 1920 Census (国勢調査), the first formal census to be taken in Japan. Source data is from the 1930 Census. Source data is from the 1940 Census. Japan emerged from the Second