How many years old is the city of Rome?

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Answer in years. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

2,777 years

Roughly 2.8K.

Rome is traditionally dated to 753 BCE, making it about 2,777 years old. It has been continuously inhabited that whole time. Its population peaked at over a million in the 2nd century, collapsed to around 20,000 in the Middle Ages, and only recovered in the 1930s.

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Source Encyclopaedia Britannica
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