Primate city
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primate-city-177-4045461
title:
Primate city
text:
A primate city is a city that is the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. A primate city distribution is a rank-size distribution that has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns and no intermediate-sized urban centers, creating a statistical king effect. The law of the primate city was first proposed by the geographer Mark Jefferson in 1939. He defines a primate city as being "at least twice
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Disproportionately largest city of a country or region
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primate_city
date created:
2005-02-07T17:52:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T03:47:43Z
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