The following interesting figures are given by the Washington correspondent of The Times:
New York now has a population greater than many of the countries of the world, for instance, Australia in 1908 had within its borders 4,275,306 persons, exclusive of the aborigines, while Ireland (1909) had a population of 4,374,158. Bulgaria in 1908 showed a census return of 4,158,409, and Denmark and Greece, respectively, had 2,659,000 and 2,632,000 subjects of their kings. Norway in the same year was populated by 2,350,786 persons, and Switzerland by 3,559,000.
The figures in the cut above exhibit fifty years of New York’s expansion.
The fifteen largest cities of the world, each having more than one million population are as follows:
| London | 7,537,196 |
| New York | 4,766,883 |
| Paris | 2,714,068 |
| Tokyo | 2,085,160 |
| Berlin | 2,040,148 |
| Chicago | 1,698,575 |
| St. Petersburg | 1,678,000 |
| Vienna | 1,674,957 |
| Canton | 1,600,000 |
| Peking (estimated) | 1,600,000 |
| Moscow | 1,359,254 |
| Philadelphia | 1,293,697 |
| Constantinople (estimated) | 1,125,000 |
| Osaka | 1,117,151 |
| Calcutta and suburbs | 1,026,987 |
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Cities and Atmospheric Impurities—See [Soot].
Cities Due to Discoveries—See [Discovery, Benefits from].
City versus Country—See [Society is Man’s Place].