THE GREAT CITIES OF THE WORLD.
According to M. Emile Levasseur, the United Kingdom has the largest nnrnber of great cities of any country in the world, excluding China, as to the census of which we have no really trustworthy information. The United Kingdom has no fewer than 27 towns, each with a population of more than 1100,000 inhabitants. The population ! of these 27 towns amounts to 9,287,000 \ being about 26* per cent of the whole population of the kingdom. India has the next largest number, 22 ; but the population of the 22 towns is only 4,506,000, and the proportion to the ) whole population of the Indian Empire is only a little over If per cent. Next comes the United States of America with 20 towns, having an aggregate population of 4,753,000, being just about 9 per cent, of the total population of the union. The German Empire ranks fourth. It has 17 towns with a population each exceeding 100,000. The aggregate population is 4,302,000, and the proportion to the total population is a little under 9f per cent. Italy ranks fifth with 11 towns, each having a population of over 100,000, aggregating 1,970,000, and forming a little under 7 per cent, of the total population of the kingdom France comes only sixth with 10 large towns, having an aggregate population of 3,904,000, forming a little over 10j per cent, of the population; and then comes Russia with nine large towns having an aggregate population of 2,966,000, being 3* per cent of the total population. Spain and Austria-Hungary have each five
large towns, the aggregate' population amounting to 8 per cent, of the entire Spanish population, hut to a little under 4 per cent, of the AustroHungarian population. Belgium has four towns with over 100,000 people, having an aggregate population of 871,000, and the proportion, to the total population is 15f per cent. ; and the Netherlands and Zealand have each three towns, the aggregate population of the one being 16f per cent, of the whole, and the other being only per cent, of the whole. —Engineering ■ t
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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347THE GREAT CITIES OF THE WORLD. Temuka Leader, Issue 1626, 27 August 1887, Page 4
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