Urban centers persisted in Western Europe despite the population decline of the fourteenth century, although few new cities appeared. Northern Italy showed resilience by maintaining many of its urban centers. Of the twenty or more late medieval cities in the region, many survived into the Renaissance, though more than a few showed a decline in population by 1400. Prato had 10,600 inhabitants in 1339, but by 1357 the population had dropped to 6,000. Florence began to show some gains in population by 1460 with about 40,000 inhabitants. By 1552 the number had increased to 59,000, through the count was half of what it was in the mid-fourteenth century.