Which is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world?

Answer 1

The walls of Jericho have been destroyed many
times, so it's Damascas in the lead as being the
world's oldest CONTINUOUSLY inhabited city - it
was ancient even in the Old Testament times.

Oldest in America is St. Augustine, FL.

Answer 2

1. Damascus Syria 4,000 BCE[1]-3000 BCE[2] Excavations at Tell Ramad on the outskirts of the city have demonstrated that Damascus has been inhabited as early as 8000 to 10,000 BC.[citation needed] It is due to this that Damascus is considered to be the oldest continually inhabited city in the world. However, Damascus is not documented as an important city until the coming of the Aramaeans which is the date used in the table above. See reference for presence of urban life among cattle herders at this date — also due to land fertility and constant water source.
2. Jericho West Bank, Palestinian territories 9000 BCEEvidence indicates that the city was abandoned several times, and later expanded and rebuilt several times.[5]
3. Byblos Lebanon 5,000 BCE[6] Carbon-dating tests have set the age of earliest settlement around 7000±80[7]
4. Susa Iran (Persia) 4200 BCE[8] As a city, up to 7500 years of inhabitation
5. Sidon Lebanon 4,000 BCE and perhaps, earlier[9] There is evidence that Sidon was inhabited as long ago as 4000 B.C., and perhaps, as early as Neolithic times (6000 - 4000 B.C.)
6. Medinat Al-Fayoum (as Crocodilopolis or Arsinoe) Egypt 4,000 BCE
7. Gaziantep Turkey 3,650 BCE This is disputed, although most modern scholars place the Classical Antiochia ad Taurum at Gaziantep, some maintain that it was in fact located at Aleppo. Furthermore, that the two cities occupy the same site is far from established fact (see Gaziantep). Assuming this to be the case, the date of founding the present site would be in the region of 1,000 BCE. Gaziantep)
8. Hebron Israel\West Bank 3,500 BCE
9. Istanbul Turkey 3,500 BCE Artifacts dating back to 3500–5000 BCE in Fikirtepe (see History of Istanbul)
10. Beirut Lebanon 3,000 BCE or earlier
11. Varanasi India 3,000 BCE or earlier
12. Harappa Pakistan 3,300 BCE
13. Athens Greece 3,000 BCE
14. Tyre Lebanon 2,750 BCE
15. Xinzheng China 2,700 BCE
16. Mohenjo-daro Pakistan 2,600 BCE
17. Delhi India 2,500 BCE[14]
18. Arbil Iraq 2,300 BCE or earlier[15]
19. Kirkuk (As 'Arrapha') Iraq 3,000-2,200 BCE
20. Adana Turkey 2,000 BCE
21. Hama (as Hamath) Syria 2,000 BCE or earlier
22. Jerusalem Israel 2,000 BCE
23. Luxor (as Thebes/Weset) Egypt 2,000 BCE
24. Jaffa Israel 1,800 BCE
25. Aleppo Syria 1,800 BCE
26. Kutaisi Georgia 1,700 BCE
27. Cholula Mexico 1,700 BCE
28. Asyut Egypt 1,500 BCE or earlier
29. Gaza Gaza Strip 1,500 BCE or earlier

Answer 3

Damascus,Syria

Answer 4

I think Damascus

Answer 5

bangalore.it's just that nobody had discovered it. it had inhabitants. nobody knew but me.