Large city
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A settlement reaches this size at a manpower of 17,000. It is level 4 of 5, above City and below Huge city.
What it takes to reach it, and what holds it there
| Manpower | Manpower | Manpower | Manpower | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manpower needed to reach it | 17,000 | Floor | 400 | Overcrowding starts | 30,000 | Squalour doubles | 28,000 |
| Base manpower | 14,000 |
These numbers are the same for every culture.
What it unlocks
Building levels first buildable here (45)
45 building levels need at least this size, so they are the buildings a settlement can first put up on reaching it. Counting everything from the bottom of the ladder up to here, 243 building levels are available at this size.
The 45 levels
Units first raisable here (1)
1 unit cannot be raised in a smaller settlement: the smallest building level that lists it needs this size. Counting everything from the bottom of the ladder up to here, 749 units are raisable at this size.
| Unit | Raised at | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Large Lithoboloi | Foundry (Industry) |
At the campaign start
At the start of the campaign 15 of the 1,307 settlements are this size, 1.1% of them. 5 of those are a faction's capital.
Who holds them (9 factions)
| Faction | Culture | Settlements | Faction | Culture | Settlements | Faction | Culture | Settlements | Faction | Culture | Settlements |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seleucid Empire | Eastern Hellenistic | 7 | Athens | Greek | 1 | Bactria | Eastern Hellenistic | 1 | Cyrene | Eastern Hellenistic | 1 |
| Free Peoples | Libyan | 1 | Ptolemaic Empire | Eastern Hellenistic | 1 | Rhodes | Greek | 1 | Syracuse | Greek | 1 |
| S.P.Q.R. | Roman | 1 |
Every settlement that begins at this size (15)
| Settlement | Held by | Manpower | Buildings | Settlement | Held by | Manpower | Buildings | Settlement | Held by | Manpower | Buildings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antiocheia-Margiane | Seleucid Empire | 6,500 | 12 | Apameia-Syria | Seleucid Empire | 5,600 | 12 | Athens ★ | Athens | 9,500 | 15 |
| Babylon | Seleucid Empire | 7,000 | 14 | Ephesos | Seleucid Empire | 10,000 | 15 | Kyrene ★ | Cyrene | 7,400 | 15 |
| Marakanda | Bactria | 7,300 | 13 | Memphis | Ptolemaic Empire | 13,000 | 14 | Rhodes ★ | Rhodes | 8,600 | 12 |
| Rome ★ | S.P.Q.R. | 12,500 | 15 | Sardis | Seleucid Empire | 11,000 | 11 | Susa | Seleucid Empire | 8,500 | 14 |
| Syracuse ★ | Syracuse | 11,000 | 17 | Taxila | Free Peoples | 8,300 | 12 | Uruk | Seleucid Empire | 5,500 | 13 |
