Well, at the moment, Çatalhöyük is the first known city in the world – the first place where surrounding villages came together and formed a central location and began the sort of urban civilization that dominates the modern world.
Kushim (Sumerian: 𒆪𒋆 KU. ŠIM) is the earliest known recorded name of a person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley.
Jericho, West Bank
Located in the West Bank and not too far from the Jordan River, Jericho has been continuously inhabited for over 11,000 years, has been a significant trading post for much of its existence and is even mentioned in the Old Testament.
Mark Twain declared that the Indian city of Varanasi was 'older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend'.
Jericho, a city in the Palestine territories, is a strong contender for the oldest continuous settlement in the world: it dates back to around 9,000 B.C., according to Ancient History Encyclopedia.
Dating to around 3.6 billion years ago, the Pilbara region of Western Australia is home to the fossilised evidence of the Earth's oldest lifeforms.
The oldest capital city in the world is Damascus (Dimashq), Syria. It has been continuously inhabited since c. 2500 BC.
Paris is older than London. Paris, also known as Lutetia, was founded by the Parisii, a tribe of Gauls, in the 3rd century BC. London, also known as Londinium, was founded by the Romans in AD 43.
Approximately 25,000 years ago, during the Upper Paleolithic period of the Stone Age, a small settlement of mammoth hunters consisting of huts built with rocks and mammoth bones was founded on the site of what is now Dolní Věstonice. This is the oldest permanent human settlement that has ever been found.
Overlooking the Konya plain in southern Anatolia in Turkey are the remains of a city that was founded over 9,000 years ago. Possibly the first city in history, Çatalhöyük had no streets nor any identifiable public buildings, yet it had a population that at some point probably reached as high as 10,000 people.
Located between Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Expo City Dubai is the size of 610 football fields as of now. But when Dubai's 2040 Urban Master Plan is implemented in phases, the new city will become part of Dubai South, which is projected to be almost twice the size of Hong Kong Island when it is fully built.
Kampala in Uganda has been named the youngest city in the world as almost three quarters of its residents are under the age of 30, with half under the age of 16. In the heart of Kampala, the past seamlessly merges with the present.
Kushim – The Earliest Recorded Name
The earliest recorded surname on record belongs to an ancient Babylonian accountant named Kushim.
THE OLDEST SURNAME IN WORLD IS KATZ (INITIALS OF THE TWO WORDS KOHEN TSEDEK). EVERY KATZ IS A PRIEST DESCENDING IN AN UNBROKEN LINE FROM AARON THE BROTHER OF MOSES 1300 B.C. BOOK 1.
Japan's 6,800+ islands comprise a total land area which is nearly twice that of the UK, but 30% of its 127 million people (again approximately twice that of the UK) live in the greater Tokyo area. The geographical area of the greater Tokyo area is huge as can be seen from the image overlaying greater Tokyo onto the UK.
With its cultural and historical heritage dating back 8000 years, Plovdiv is considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe and one of the oldest in the world. It is located at the foot of seven syenite hills and still is one of the best Bulgarian cities to live in.
Ancient Romans founded a port and trading settlement called Londinium in 43 A.D., and a few years later a bridge was constructed across the Thames to facilitate commerce and troop movements.
A temporary national capital was established in Melbourne. In 1908 it was determined that the capital would be in the Canberra-Yass district, not less than 900 square miles (2,330 square km) in area, and have access to the sea.
In 1927, the national capital was finally ready and the national government relocated from its former seat in Melbourne to Canberra within the Australian Capital Territory (or the Federal Capital Territory as it was known at the time).
St. Augustine, founded in September 1565 by Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles of Spain, is the longest continually inhabited European-founded city in the United States – more commonly called the "Nation's Oldest City."
3100 BCE. Around this time period, Upper and Lower Egypt were unified into a single kingdom by King Menes – Menes is actually the Egyptian word for founder and many historians believe that founder of Egypt was a ruler named Narmer. This makes Egypt the oldest country in the world.
Egypt. Egypt, with vast swaths of desert in its east and west and the rich Nile River Valley at its heart, is site to one of the world's earliest and greatest civilizations.