Practice question · Numerical answer
A country’s largest city has 8 million people. Under the rank-size rule, roughly what population would the 4th largest city have?
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2 million (answers within ±0.3 count)
Why
Two million. The rule is rough and empirical rather than a law, but it holds across strikingly different countries and centuries, which is exactly why the deviations are worth reading.
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