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Nobody knows. Littls survives of the early city, and pre-Islamic archeology is out of favour with the Saudi authorities and religious establishment. Given the carrying capacity of the region and likely urbanisation levels it's likely to have been in the low tens of thousands, but it's difficult to be more precise.

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