Amador ledger., 1906-02-09
Worlds Greatest Cities.

Worlds Greatest Cities.
Ihe following statistics of tn
population and area of the Iarges
nine cities in the world are takel
from an article by Arthur I. DoIlin,
in the Strand Magazine:
London may mean the city of Lon
don, which comprises only 673 acres
or it may mean the administrativ,
county of London, which boast.
nearly III square miles or IA. SO!
acres; or greater London, which EN-
braces the metropolitan police dis
trict, and has an area OF no less thar
692 square miles, or 443, 420 acres
Within the boundaries of : the county
OF London there we're a, ,536, 541 souls,
living in GIG, ,461 houses. Within this
area must also be counted l2.O54
acres OF grass, including the public
parks and gardens. In the greater
London are $3.50, 900 inhabitants. and
the area forms city far more homo
genous and compact than greater
Chicago OF greater New York.
Greater New York covers 3O7 square
miles with population of 3, 437, 2O2.
1t has 6.766 acres of parks and open
spaces, little more than one half that
OF London; yet the proportion of
unoccupied land not under control of
the city is, of course, many times as
great. The actual agglomeration of
buildings in greater New York-ex-
Guiding Staten lsland-covers barely
LOCO acres, or eighty square miles.
Less than 5000 acres of Staten
Islands 57.19 square miles is built
upon.
Paris has an area of a little more
than thirtyone square miles, with a
population of 2,70O, 900, living in 75,
600 houses. This is within the ram
parts. but if the actual agglomeration
OF houses be taken, including the
suburbs, the area is forty five square
miles and the population 5000, QUO.
Berlin, a mere village century
ago, is now the third city in Europe,
and the fourth in the world in point
of population, having 1857, 900 in
habitants in its forty.fve square
miles of territory. Its actual in
crease from 1900 to 1900 was S1S per
cent. There is an enormous suburban
district clamoring to be annexed,
and, with this added to the popula-
tion of the present city, the total of
inhabitants is about 2, 100000.
Chicago is spread out over 1913 miles
with 1,69S, 575 inhabitants, but only
about 10 square miles of this territory
is improved and less than so miles
built upon. 1t has 2,232 acres of
parks and open spaces.
Vienna, enlarged in 1891 by the
addition of the fifty suburbs outside
the second girdle of Notifications, has
now 1, 662, 269 inhabitants in 69 square
miles of territory. She is now reach
ing out for the adjoining town of
tloridsdorf, across the river Danube,
aud four other towns with a total
population of $4,000 more. More
than tive-eights of Vienna is woods,
pastures and vineyards, while more
than one-tenth Is parks, gardens and
squares.
st. Petersburg covers an area of
q, 1S5 acres, of which q, 800 are part
OF the delta of the river Neva, and
|, 1880 acres are submerged. The
population is now ], ,248, 739, with 100, :
635 in the suburbs
Peking and Boston have about, the
same population 100000. The
former is walled city and contains
an area of about 30 square miles. The
large area in comparison with the
population is accounted for by the
enormous space taken up by the i'm
perial palaces and gardens. The area
of Boston is "a, 600 acres, of which
2, 3OS are common open spaces and
126 acres ponds and rivers. Boston is
reaching out for the suburbs within a
radius of ten miles of her city hall,
hich would give her population
of about l, $50, 600. New York World.