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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gizmo33" data-source="post: 2253707" data-attributes="member: 30001">You might be interested in the "Magical Medieval Society" series - you can get them on pdf, they're by Expeditious Retreat Press.  There's a lot of info on demographics like this.Medieval agriculture is labor intensive and so a high proportion of the population would have to live outside the city.  One farmer can't farm a million acres to feed a city, right?  In fact, without gasoline powered machines, there's only so much land you can plow in a day.  And you can only walk so far to that land.  And the farmer has to feed himself, and his family and oxen etc. I believe 3E says that 92% of the population is rural. Regardless (let's say people have iron golems doing their farming for them) I think you need 1 acre under cultivation for every two persons.  Pasture for livestock, woodland for foraging, etc. can increase this value.  I use a 1/3 swamp/waste, 1/3 forest, 1/3 farm formula for my game.  That means:population / 2 * 3 = total acres (640 acres = mile, hopefully you can convert to metric)</blockquote>