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CONTENTS 01 02
Introduction to The main
Primate City by causes for the
Mark Jefferson development of
Primate Cities

03 04 05
Ranking of Cities Factors for Primate City in
Creation of India
Primate Cities
01 Introduction to
Primate City by
Mark Jefferson
 Primate City by Mark Jefferson

The Law of Primate City

• developed by Mark Jefferson in the year 1939
• has a stratum of small towns dominated by a very
large city with an absence of intermediate centers
• based on the observation that the country’s
leading city is disproportionately larger than the
other cities inside the system
• example: London is seven times larger than the
size of Liverpool, Mexico City is five times the size
of Guadalahara
02 Main causes of
Primate Cities
 Main causes of Primate Cities

1 2 3

Small territorial Relatively high Low per capita

extent of the density of income.
country. population.
 Main causes of Primate Cities

4 5 6

A high degree of High rates of Formal Colonial

dependence population Status.
upon
growth.
agricultural
exports.
 Small
Project
Territory

Colonial High Agri-

History Primate dependence
City

Low per High

capita population
income growth
03 Ranking of Cities
 Ranking of Cities

1200000

• The ranking is in descending order.

1000000
• If the largest city in the largest city in a
country contains 1,000,000 people, the
800000
second largest contain 500,000, the third
POPULATION

largest 333,333 and so on, which produces

600000
an inverted-shape between rank and
population.
400000
• The primate cities are mainly found in small
countries. For example, Reykjvik in Iceland,
200000
Copenhagen in Denmark, Kathmandu in
0
Nepal, Lago in Nigeria, Lima in Peru, La Paz
0 1 2 3 4 5 in Bolivia, Quito in Ecuador, Caracas in
RANK OF CITIES Venezuela and Bogota in Colombia.
04 Factors for Creation
of Primate Cities
 Factors for Creation of Primate Cities

1. 2.
• Countries with a colonial history • Export-oriented economy. A
also have primate cities. For country which dependent on
example, Australia, New export of raw materials shows
Zealand, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the tendency of primacy.
Maldives, Kenya, Ethiopia, etc.

4.
Project Project Project Project

3. 4. 5.
• simple economic and poltical
• the cities of of Khartoum (Sudan), • countries having dual economy
economy lead to primacy.
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Mogadishu (partly labour-intensive and partly
Countries with small area and
(Somalia), Kinshasa (Zairc), Nairobi capital intensive) also have primate
population, low per capita
(Kenya), Montevideo (Uruguay), cities. Dual economies in Indonesia,
incomes and agriculture as the
Mexico City (Mexico), are some of Malaysia, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur,
basis economic activity also have
such examples. Colombo and Bangkok primate
a tendency towards primacy.
Cities.
05 Primate City in India
Primate City in India

There is no primate city in India

• The absence of primate city in is partly explained by the
Large size of the country.
• No city in India exercise the dominance of the entire
nation. At the state level, there are primate states in
fifteen out of the twenty nine states. Several larger
states, such as West Bengal, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu,
Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat have primate
cities, which have population of the second - ranking
city. Among the smaller states, Manipur, Meghalaya,
Mizorsam, Sikkim and Tripura show a distinct tendency
towards city primacy.
• In the valley of Kashmir, the city of Srinagar has the
status of a primate City. Primate characteristics are
absent in the northern states, from Orissa, and Bihar in
the east to Rajasthan and Punjab in the west.
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