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Show I 1,804,187,631 People in World India Is credited with 80 large cities China has 20, ao far as available records rec-ords show, and Japan numbers 19. Including three In her foreign possessions. posses-sions. United States Leads. North America follows Asia, with 79 large cities. Four of these New York, Chicago, Philadelphia (and Mexico City ere placed In the million class. Of the nations on that continent, the United States leads with 68 large cities, 12 of which record more than a half-million Inhabitants. Twenty-four large cities are located In South America, Brazil having 13. Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro are the only million-resident centers. - Australia counts eight large cities, none of which runs up Into a million. Seven Per Cent of People Live in Cities of More Than 100,000. Berlin. Scattered over the face of the earth is a total population of 1.804,187,631, only 7 per cent of which Is in cities of more than 100,000 in-', in-', habitants, according to statistics compiled com-piled here and based largely on 1922 census reports. Only thirty of the seventy nations listed have cities of or above the 100,000 class, which is the lowest counted within the classification classifica-tion of "large cities.' , Approximately 40,000,000 of the ; globe's Inhabitants live in the eighteen centers having a million residents or more each. About 90,000,000 live in r the smaller cities, of which there are only 393 in the whole world. The average large city Is said to number some 320,000 souls. From these figures, fig-ures, It Is stated, every forty-fifth human hu-man resides in a city housing millions, ; while every fourteenth finds his home in a large city of some sort. N New York Biggest City. . : New York is given as the largest ( city in the world, with a population of ' 6,620,048. London is second with : 4,483,249, and Berlin third with 8,803,-I; 8,803,-I; 770. Europe leads the continents in point of population. It has six cities In the '; million class London, Berlin, Parts, Glasgow, Vienna and Moscow and ; 193 with more than 100,000 inhabitants. inhabi-tants. Of the European countries, England has 53 large cities, Germany 45, Italy 16, France 15 and Russia 15. It Is considered surprising that Asia j has more large cities than North America. Six of the 02 Asiatic cities house more than a million apiece. These are Shanghai, Hankau, Calcutta, Bombay, Tokyo and Osaka. British |