Urban Geography
Identify the five largest cities within each country: Ciudad de Panamá, San Miguelito, Las Cumbres, La Chorrera, Tocumen
Identify the population of the largest city: 430,299 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 215,149 City #3 should be 143,433 City #4 should be 107,574 City #5 should be 86,059 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 315,019 City #3 is 127,440 City #4 is 118,521 City #5 is 113,174 |
Population: 3,608,431
Population Density: 52 ppl/sq km % Urban Population: 66.3% % Urban Population Living in Slums: 46.6% Average % Change in Urban Population: 2.07% annual rate of change % with Improved Urban Sanitation: 79.7% % with Improved Urban Water Supply: 96.8% Panama mostly fits the rank size rule. Its largest city is Ciudad de Panama, which has 430,299. The second city should be around 215,000, but San Miguelito has 315,000 people. Past that though, it fits pretty well. The third city was supposed to be about 143,000, and Las Cumbres was 127,000. The fourth was different only by about 11,000, and the fifth by 27,000.
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