Mohenjo-daro, in today's Sindh province of Pakistan, was one of the largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilisation, built around 2500 BCE. It had an estimated population of at least 40,000, with streets laid out on a grid, houses of fired brick, and covered drains that ran from homes to the main sewers. The city also had a large public bath and granaries, and it traded with distant regions. Mohenjo-daro prospered for several centuries before it, along with other large Indus cities, was abandoned around 1700 BCE. It was rediscovered in the 1920s, and it became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.

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Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.