[egypturnash]

Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD, there’s a long list of European cities that stops a lifetime before that.

[iso1631]

By splitting into different regions it masks the difference in numbers and age across the world.

A list of "oldest cities" which contains places like Canbera and Detroit, but not places like London and Venice, seems very odd

[m-i-l]

> "Wikipedia’s date for that is 43 AD"

There was a story a couple of weeks ago[0] about pottery dating from around 3600BCE being found at a site in Shoreditch (which was being excavated for the new Amazon HQ), suggesting London may have been inhabited considerably longer than previously thought.

[0] https://www.mola.org.uk/blog/largest-group-early-neolithic-p... & https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2178-z

[pbhjpbhj]

That wouldn't be "London city" that would be "a village which the latter settlement of London expanded to encompass"; which is significantly different. Not longest inhabited areas, but continuously inhabited city.