Urban Geography
Identify the five largest cities within each country: Quezon City, Manila, Caloocan, Davao, Cebu
Identify the population of the largest city: 2,761,720 Use the “rank size rule” to identify the estimated size of each of the next four largest cities (city #2 is ½ the size of city #1, city #3 is 1/3 the size of city #1, city #4 is ¼ the size of #1, city #5 is 1/5 the size of #1): Using the rank size rule... City #2 should be 1,380,860 City #3 should be 920,573 City #4 should be 690,430 City #5 should be 552,344 Identify the actual populations of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, & 5th largest cities: Compose a well-developed paragraph defending to what extent the “rank size rule” is proven valid or invalid based upon the populations of this country’s five largest cities: The cities' actual populations are... City #2 is 1,652,171 City #3 is 1,489,040 City #4 is 1,176,586 City #5 is 866,171 |
Population: 107,668,231
Population Density: 334 ppl/sq mi % Urban Population: 44.5% of total population % Urban Population Living in Slums: 40.9% Average % Change in Urban Population: 1.32% annual rate of change % with Improved Urban Sanitation: 79.4% of population % with Improved Urban Water Supply: 92.5% of population The largest of the cities in the Philippines do not fit the rank size rule. Panama's largest city is Quezon, which has 2,761,720 people in it. By the rank size rule, city two should have 1.3 million people, and city three should have under 1 million. But Panama's next three largest cities, Manila, Caloocan, and Davao, all have above 1 million people living there. Cebu, it's fifth largest city, is around the same population as it's third by the rank size rule.
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Nighttime view of businesses staying open and cars going by in Manila, Phillipines.
x Informal settlers along the edge of a city in the Phillipines. x
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Busy street in the Philippines. There are various types of transportation, like the buses and carts, and cars. x
An overcrowded city, Baguio City, in the Philippines. x
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People sell drinks and things on the corners of streets. x
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