Primate city
A primate city (English: Primate City ) is - where available - a city which is the largest and most often also the capital of a country, and has a prominent position within the national urban hierarchy by above-average economic power and population, political power, strong trade and educational institutions. A primate city offers all the hard and soft location factors, many inexpensive labor force and affluent upper class. Therefore, locating there often to new farms.
A primate city is commonly found in developing countries, but also partly in industrialized countries.
In many cases, can be a primate city in terms of population compared to the population of the next largest cities of a country recognize. Is it possible to apply the order of the city in terms of population size almost linear, so there is no primacy city.
Examples of countries with primate cities:
- Paris in France
- London in the United Kingdom
- Vienna in Austria
- Auckland in New Zealand
- Budapest in Hungary
- Prague in the Czech Republic
- Bucharest in Romania
- Moscow in Russia
- Lima in Peru
- Mexico City in Mexico
- Buenos Aires in Argentina
- Cairo in Egypt
- Bangkok in Thailand
- Seoul in South Korea
- Copenhagen in Denmark
- Athens in Greece
- Lagos in Nigeria
- Tokyo, Japan
- Santiago de Chile in Chile
- Windhoek in Namibia
- Abidjan in Ivory Coast
- Montevideo in Uruguay
- Previously Istanbul in the Ottoman Empire (now Ankara is the political capital of Turkey )
Countries without a primate city include:
- Urban form