GREAT CITIES OF THE WORLD.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1665, 21 June 1879, Page 3

GREAT CITIES OF THE WORLD.

The population of the groat cities of the world is a matter of perennial interest. Unofficial statements vary somewhat, but those of the last annual report of the Bureau of Statistics are derived from official sources, and are no doubt authentic. According to the latest official estimates in each city, or the last census where these are not attainable, they range as follows : —London, of course, heads the list, with its 3,533,481 ; Paris comes next, with 1,851,792, by the census of 1872 : then Pekin, with 1,500,000, and Canton, with 1,300,000 ; next comes New York, with 1,069,362, and closes the list of those having more than 1,000,000. Of those having leas than 1,000,000 and more than 500,000, Berlin comes first, with 994,343; then Philadelphia, with 850,856; next Tokio, Japan, the Teddo of the old geographies, with 800,000; Vienna, 690,548 ; St. Petersburg, 669,741; Bombay, 644,105 ; Kioto, Japan, 560,000 ; Glasgow, 555 933; Osaka, Japan, 530,000; Brooklyn, 527,830; Liverpool, 527,083. St, Louis claims 500.000, and, if allowed her own estimate, she heads the list of those ranging downward from 500,000 to 250,000. Then f.llow Naples, with 457,407; Chicago, with 440,000; Calcutta, 429,535; Nanking, 400,000 ;' Madras, 397,552 ; Hamburg, 393,588; Birmingham, 377,34-6; Manchester, 359,213; Baltimore, 355,000; Boston, 354,785; Shanghai, 320,000; Dublin, 314,666 ; Buda-Pesth, 314,-401; Amsterdam, 302i266; San Francisco, 300,000 ; Leeds, 298,189 ; Rome, 282,214; Sheffield, 282,130; Cincinnati, 280,000; Breslau, 259,346; Melbourne, 250,678 ; Havana, 250,000. Thus it will be seen that there are thirty-nine cities, each having 250,000 inhabitants or more, supposing none to have been omitted, and as aggregate of about 24,000,000*