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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]
Geography of Athens. Athens is: a city. capital of Attica; capital of Greece; primate city of Greece; Population of Athens: 637,798 (city proper and municipality) 3,090,508 (urban area) Area of Athens: 38.964 km 2 (15.044 sq mi) (city proper and municipality) 412 km 2 (159 sq mi) (urban area) Atlas of Athens; Topography of Athens
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This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
(1967) The Southeast Asian city: a social geography of the primate cities of Southeast Asia, London, Bell (1971) The Urbanization Process in the Third World, T. G. McGee. G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., London (1985) Theatres of Accumulation: Studies in Asian and Latin American Urbanization, together with Warwick Armstrong, London: Methuen
It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. [15] [16] The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, [17] [18] the capital of Lower Pannonia. [17] The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, [19] but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in ...
Baku is the primate city of Azerbaijan—it is the sole ... Exhibits reflecting the history, geography, nature, everyday life and culture of Absheron region are ...
Toggle Geography subsection. 3.1 Climate. ... is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, ... Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...