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Colombo, the primate city of Sri Lanka; it is 45 times larger than Kandy, the country's second-largest city. Countries without a national primate city highlighted in red. A primate city [1] is a city that is the largest in its country, province, state, or region, and disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. [2]
Numerous locations were proposed for EPCOT, including St. Louis, Niagara Falls, Washington D.C., New Jersey, and New York City's World Fair site. [10] Disney also considered incorporating an experimental city into his plans for a Palm Beach, Florida development with RCA and investor John D. MacArthur in 1959. [11]
A primate city is to have at least twice the population of the second city, and be "twice as important". Wikipedia lists city, urban, metro population for cities. Which one should be chosen? And how ,should "important" be defined? Example: In Scandinavia Copenhagen (Denmark) is clearly a primate city, much larger than the second city (Århus).
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Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole metropolis in the country, and about 25% of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku's metropolitan area. Baku is divided into twelve administrative raions and 48 townships.
Ecumenopolis (from Ancient Greek οἰκουμένη (oikouménē) 'the inhabited world' and πόλις 'city'; lit. ' world city '; pl. ecumenopolises or ecumenopoleis) is the hypothetical concept of a planetwide city.
Beaumont, Texas. Population 65+ (%): 16% Livability: 65 Annual cost of living: $30,999 Annual cost after Social Security: $8,489 How many years $250K will last: 29.45 Methodology: For this study ...
A non-capital primate city may also emerge organically: and gives Auckland and Wellington as an example. But as far as I'm aware, Auckland was already the larger of the two, and was the de facto original capital, and the choice of Wellington as capital was part of a conscious political strategy to position the government nearer to the South Island.