Primate city

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A primate city ( English primate city ) is a city which, by their demographic and functional dominance has a prominent role in the national economic system. Accordingly, these are large cities or mostly capitals that by far exceed the other cities of the respective country in terms of population and economic power.

When Mark Jefferson coined the English term primate city in 1939 , he named Saigon , Bangkok and Budapest as examples . Primary cities are often found in developing countries , but they also exist in centrally governed industrial countries .

A primate city can be recognized, among other things, by the size of the population compared to the population of the next largest cities in a country. Germany and Switzerland do not have a prime city. In Austria, on the other hand, Vienna is a prime city: With around 1.9 million inhabitants, Vienna is home to around a fifth of the total population of Austria and has almost seven times as many inhabitants as the next smaller city of Graz (just under 0.29 million inhabitants).

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Wiktionary: Primatstadt  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Primatstadt , Lexicon of Geography on Spektrum.de
  2. ↑ Primatstadt in TERRA Lexikon, Klett Verlag, 2004 on klett.de
  3. ↑ a b Declaration of Primatstadt on scinexx.de
  4. ↑ Jürgen Bähr, Christoph Jentsch, Wolfgang Kuls: Textbook of General Geography: Population Geography. de Gruyter, Berlin, 1992. pp. 312-316.
  5. ↑ Planet of the Primate (Cities) - The Urbanist Dispatch. Retrieved August 7, 2018 (American English).
  6. ↑ World Urbanization Prospects: The 2003 Revision . United Nations Publications, January 1, 2004, ISBN 978-92-1-151396-7 , pp. 97-102.