1710 was the year old Peking
Outgrew Istanbul as largest city
If this is true it shows that I'm learning
New things each day of great interest to me
We Europeans always assume we
Had the largest cities, though no longer
We feel we invented urbanity
But Uruk, in Iraq, is far older
Uruk's probably what Iraq's named after
Mesopotamia saw the first building
On a large scale. Now Mexico City
Beijing (still) Tokyo, Lagos, Jakarta
Are among the largest, and still growing
... and Seoul, and Lagos, Sao Paulo, Delhi...
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