RANK SIZE RULE!

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RANK SIZE RULE! AND THE LARGEST
CITIES IN THE WORLD
What is a Primate City?
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PrP1/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)?
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Canadas Largest Cities
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Great Britains Largest Cities
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Russias 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
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Japans 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
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Frances 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
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Italys Largest Cities
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