The Opelousas courier., 1905-09-02
GREATEST CITIES.
STATISTICS OF THE POPULATION
AND AREA OF NINE ME-
TRoPoLES.
Greater London Forms a City Far
More Homogeneous and Compact
Than Greater Chicago, or Greater
New York-Rcston Reaching Out
Ten Miles,

The following statistics of the popu-
lat1on and area OF the largest nine
cities In the world are taken from an
article by Arthur T. Dolling In the
Strand Magazine:
London may mean the City of Lon.
don, which comprises only 673 acres,
or 1t may mean the Administrative
County of London, which boasts near
ly lit square miles, or 1889 acres;
OR Greater London, which embraces
the Metropolitan Police District and
mas an area Of no less than 692 square
miles, or 443,420 acres. Within the
boundaries of the County of London
there were 4,536,54l souls, living in
6l6,461 houses. Within this area
must also be counted 12,054 acres of
grass. including the public parks and
gardens. In the Greater London are
6,580,OO0 Inhabitants, and the area
forms q city far more homogeneous
u compact than Greater Chicago or
Greater New York.
Greater New York covers s07
square miles, with a population of
s,437,2O2.. 1t has 6,766 acres of parks
and open spaces, little more than
half that of London; yet the proper
ton OF unoccupied land not under
control OF the city is, of course, many
time as great. The actual %agslomara,
ton of buildings III Greater New York
excluding Staten Island-coyers
barely $1,000 acres, or eighty square
miles. Less than 5000 acres Of Sta
ten Islands 57.19 square miles is
built upon.
Paris has an area Of a little more
than thirty-one square miles, with a
population Of 200, 900, living In 49,.
600 houses. This Is within the ram
parts, but If the actual agglomeration
Of houses be taken, including the SUI
burbs, the area is forty-five square
miles and the population 3,600, 900.
Berlin, a mere village a century
ago, is nov the third city in Europe
and the fourth in the world in point
Of population, having 1870 inhabi
tants in its f~orty-five square miles Of
territory. Its actual increase from
1900 to 1900 was S18 per cent. There
Is an enormous suburban district
clamoring to be annexed, and, with this
added to the population of the pres
ent city, the total of inhabitants i:
about 2,430,000.
Chicago is spread out owe 100;
miles, with 1,69s,575 inhabitants, bu
only about 20 square miles Of this ter
ritory is improved, and less than 81
miles built upon. 1t has 1882 acre
of parks and open spaces.
Vienna, enlarged in 1891 by the ad
dition OF the fifty suburbs outside tn
second girdle of Notifications. ha
now 1.662,269 inhabitants in 6
square miles Of territory. She is nov
reaching out for the adjoining tow
Of F~loridsdorf, across the river Oar
ube, and four other towns. with a te
tai population Of $4,000 more. Nor
than fve-eighths Of Vienna is woods
pastures and vineyards. while NOR
than one-tenth is parks, gardens an
squares.
st. Petersburg covers an area of 81
1S5 acres, of which 1890 are part c
the delta of the River Neva, and 1,33
acres are submerged. The populs
ton is now 1,24S,739, with 190,635 i
the suburbs.
Picking and Boston have about tn
same population, 100000. The TO
mer 10 a walled city and contains a
area of about 80 square miles. TIL
large area in comparison with th
population is accounted for by tn
enormous space taken UP by the in
perial palaces and gardens. The are
of Boston is $4,000 acres, Of whic
2,3O8 are common open spaces an
1875 acres ponds and rivers. Bosto
is reaching out for the suburbs With
a radius OF ten miles of her city hal
which would give her a population
about 1880, 00O.-NeW York World.