We always kill the millionth citizen

[Trin Tragula]

Not a solution but I lowered the base growth from 3% to 2% in my game. It's indeed a bit irritating that all cities max out their population. Even if population doesn't matter much.

 

[Trin Tragula]

I guess they repressed their minorities better than we did and managed to impose some sort of haegemonia, favourable to stability, whereas indians had the whole "let my duchy be the greatest of all duchies !" thing going on.

Before the 19th century India used to have a slightly bigger population than China though...
And as Lac said China had a huge population long before being unified.

 

[Trin Tragula]

Heh, according to this game it's Istanbul as soon as you can make the national decision to make it Istanbul.

That's not entirely wrong though. While the name wasn't technically changed until the 1920s the popular use changed long before that.