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... > social science subjects > geography > human geography > regional geography > urban studies > cities: historical overviews > primate city
... > social science subjects > geography > human geography > human geography theory > regional geography > urban studies > cities: historical overviews > primate city

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primate city  

Definition

  • A primate city is the largest and most dominant city in a country or region and often functions also as a financial or political center. In the 1930s, the geographer Mark Jefferson developed the law of the primate city to explain the phenomenon of cities that capture a large proportion of a country's population as well as its economic activity. [Source: Encyclopedia of Urban Studies; Primate City]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-B18V8NFG-R

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