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A primate city is the leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy. A 'primate city distribution' has one very large city with many much sm...
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The Law of the Primate City and the Rank-Size Rule ... A country's leading city is always disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling. The primate city is commonly at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant.
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A definition of the geography term primate city, from your About.com Guide to Geography. ... Definition: A city which is greater than two times the next largest city in a nation (or contains over one-third of a nation's population). The primate city is usually very expressive of the national culture and often the capital city.
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expressive of the national culture and often the capital city as well; you should be able to recognize several.
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Links to each level in the Hierarchy; Hamlet -- Village -- Town -- City -- Primate City ... A Primate City is a city that is at least twice as large as any other city in the country that it serves. This city often is the place that people from other countries think about when they think of the Primate City's country.
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primate city The largest city within a nation which dominates the country not solely in size—being more than twice as large as the second city, as in ... The development of primacy is not fully understood but some researchers have suggested that the importance of the primate city tends to decline as the economy grows and that,
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Bangkok is one of the most dominant primate cities in the world. It is 35 times as large as the second largest city of Chiang Mai., which is located in northern Thailand. Bangkok is the transportation and communication center of the country, as all railroad tracks, roads and airplane routes center on it.
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A country's leading city is always disproportionately large and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling. The primate city is commonly at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant.
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A primate city is major city that works as the financial, political, and population centre of a country and is not rivaled in any of these aspects by any other city in that country. Normally, a primate city must be at least twice as populous as the second largest city in the country. ... CATEGORIES ABOUT PRIMATE CITY...
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