| Show RAPID GROWTH OF MOSCOW russian city will soon rank with the largest in europe the population of moscow shows a remarkably rapid increase within the comparatively short period of 0 30 years the number dumber of inhabitants has lus just t about doubled at the time of the french invasion in 1812 the urban muscovites numbered about although the official returns were in 1871 the official census gave the population as in 1882 it was and according to the reckoning now completed the historic capital contains inhabitants thus taking the tenth place among the tha most populous cities of the world moscow covers an area of square kilometers or only two kilometers less les than that of st petersburg area I 1 Is not however by any means a general criterion in questions of population a as appears from the tact fact that whereas london with the he largest population of any city in the world covers square kilometers now new york with a population numbering more than a million less than that of th the british metropolis has a total area of 79 a square kilometers the population of moscow Is less dense than those of st petersburg glasgow london berlin and paris |
