Statistical city concept

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With the help of the statistical city concept , rural settlements are distinguished from cities . The value established as a statistical city concept differs considerably in some countries around the world. While in Iceland a settlement of 200 inhabitants is already considered a city, one needs 50,000 inhabitants in Japan.

In Germany, a distinction is also made according to population size classes:

Cities with a number of

• 2,000 to 5,000 inhabitants are considered rural towns ,
• 5,000 to 20,000 inhabitants are considered small towns ,
• 20,000 to 100,000 inhabitants are considered medium-sized cities ,
• 100,000 to 1,000,000 inhabitants are considered to be large cities ,
• more than 1,000,000 inhabitants are called megacities .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinz Heineberg : Urban geography. Paderborn: Schöningh 2006, p. 28f.
2. ↑ Jürgen Bähr , Christoph Jentsch , Wolfgang Kuls: Population geography. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter 1992, p. 708. (= textbook on general geography)
3. ^ Elisabeth Lichtenberger (1998): Urban geography 1: Terms, concepts, models, processes , p. 307 f. ISBN 3-519-23424-6 )
4. ↑ S. Baumgart, J. Flacke, C. Grüger, P. Lütke and A. Rüdiger (eds.): Small and medium-sized cities - blueprints of the big city? , P. 27, accessed April 25, 2010
5. ↑ Municipal profile of the city ​​of Düren Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.