RANK SIZE RULE! AND THE LARGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD What is a Primate City?

P r =P1/r - German geographer – George Zipf P r 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 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 = /2 = What would be the population of City C (the third largest)?

Canada’s Largest Cities

Great Britain’s Largest Cities

NamePopulation 1Moscow10,381,222 2Sankt-Peterburg4,039,745 3Novosibirsk1,419,007 4Sverdlovsk1,287,573 5Nizjnij Novgorod1,284,164 6Samara1,134,730 7Omsk1,129,281 8Tatarstan1,104,738 9Rostov1,074,482 10Tsjeljabinsk1,062,919 Russia’s Largest Cities

CityPopulation (in millions) Tokyo8.02 (11.93 in metropolitan area) Yokohama3.30 Osaka2.57 Nagoya2.15 Sapporo1.74 Kobe1.52 Kyoto1.45 Fukuoka1.28 Kawasaki1.20 Hiroshima1.11 Kitakyushu1.02 Japan’s Largest Cities

RankCityPopulation 1Paris2,152,000 2Marseille808,000 3Lyon422,000 4Toulouse366,000 5Nice346,000 6Strasbourg256,000 7Nantes252,000 8Bordeaux213,000 9Montpellier211,000 10Rennes204,000 11Saint-Etienne202,000 France’s Largest Cities

Italy’s Largest Cities

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