RANK SIZE RULE!AND THE LARGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD

What is a Primate City?

Pr=P1/r - German geographer – George Zipf

Pr is the population of the Urban place of rank r

P1 - is the population of the first ranked place

r - is the rank (determined by size)

Eg. City A has 900 000 people and is the first ranked city in the country. City B which is second to city A will have one-half the population of city A.

B = 900 000/2 = 450 000

What would be the population of City C (the third largest)?

Canada’s Largest Cities

Great Britain’s Largest Cities

Name Population

1 Moscow 10,381,222

2 Sankt-Peterburg 4,039,745

3 Novosibirsk 1,419,007

4 Sverdlovsk 1,287,573

5 Nizjnij Novgorod 1,284,164

6 Samara 1,134,730

7 Omsk 1,129,281

8 Tatarstan 1,104,738

9 Rostov 1,074,482

10 Tsjeljabinsk 1,062,919

Russia’s Largest Cities

City Population (in millions)

Tokyo 8.02 (11.93 in metropolitan area)

Yokohama 3.30

Osaka 2.57

Nagoya 2.15

Sapporo 1.74

Kobe 1.52

Kyoto 1.45

Fukuoka 1.28

Kawasaki 1.20

Hiroshima 1.11

Kitakyushu 1.02

 

Japan’s Largest Cities

Rank City Population

1 Paris 2,152,000

2 Marseille 808,000

3 Lyon 422,000

4 Toulouse 366,000

5 Nice 346,000

6 Strasbourg 256,000

7 Nantes 252,000

8 Bordeaux 213,000

9 Montpellier 211,000

10 Rennes 204,000

11 Saint-Etienne 202,000

France’s Largest Cities

Italy’s Largest Cities

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