Population:
Approx. 100,000 souls and ten times more inhabitants.
"Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the Patrician privately observed, ten times that number of actual people." - Guard!, Guards! (thanks to Valorum)
Poets have tried to describe Ankh-Morpork and they have failed. Perhaps it's the sheer zestful vitality of the place, or maybe it's just that a city with a million inhabitants and no sewers is rather robust for poets,... - Mort (Mort's first visit on his way to get a curry after being hired)
But also importantly
“What sort of place is Ankh?” “A city of a million souls,” said the voice of Om, “many of them occupying bodies" - Small Gods
What's so important about the last one? It's 100 years earlier, meaning that either Ankh-Morpork has no population growth or that all such values must be taken with a significant pinch of salt.
Size:
Size from Lspace 1 mile across (about 1.6km) (excluding suburbs outside the city walls) : I disagree with this
Size from Wikipedia 5 miles across (8km) : I disagree with this too.
However I can find no direct references to the size of the city and the map has no scale. (Yay I found my map! It was with the maps rather than on the triple stacked Pratchett shelf)
'Er...bingle bingle bingle...?' said a small and very nervous voice.
Vimes pulled out the Gooseberry and stared at it. At a time like this...
'Well?' he said.
'It's twenty-nine minutes past five, Insert Name Here,' said the imp nervously.
'So?'
'On foot, at this time of day, you will need to leave now to be home at six o'clock,' said the imp. - Thud
Now in the above quote, before getting home just in time for 6pm, Vimes is at 3 Tenth Egg Street and needs to get to 1 Scoone Avenue. From the map, that's just over half way across the city, but there's no direct route. I'm estimating that a brisk walk from the Commander of the Watch is 4mph, 30mins would be 2 miles. Tracing the route on the ground against the direct route as the crow flies I estimate the size of the city to be approximately 3miles diameter within the walls.
In historical terms this is very large for a walled city. 1 mile would be far more reasonable.
This leads to population density.
Significant.
In Thud we're introduced to Grag Bashfull Bashfullsson who lives in a corner of a room sublet from an entire family living in the same room. There are other examples of characters living in cramped lodgings consisting of a single room in a boarding house (Carrot, Angua, John Keel, Glod, etc). It should be considered relatively normal for people to be living entire families in single rooms to make up that population in such limited space.
The city
