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Cities
London* (est., 4/282,921).1881
Paris..............................1886
Canton...........................est.
Berlin............................1885
Vienna..........................1887
NewYork.....................1880
Tokio, Japan.................1886
St. Petersburg...............1884
Constantinople.............1885
Calcutta........................1881
Philadelphia...............1880
Bombay.........................1881
Moscow.........................1884
Glasgow.........................1881
Brooklyn.....................1880
Liverpool (est., 599,738)..1881
Chicago.......................1880
Peking, China...............est.
Buenos Ayres ..............1888
Naples...........................1881
Brussels.........................1888
Buda-Pesth...................1886
Melbourne.....................1888
Warsaw.........................18S2
Madras...........................1881
Lyons............................1886
Birmi'gham (est.447,912)1881
Boston.........................1885
Amsterdam...................1888
Madrid...........................1887
Marseilles.....................1884
Cairo.............................18S2
Osaka, Japan.................1886
Rio de Janiero...............1885
Hyderabad, India..........1881
St. Louis*.......................1880
Mexico..........................1888
Manchester (es. 378,164).1881
Baltimore*.....................1880
Leeds (est., 351,210)........1881
Hamburg......................1885
Breslau.........................18S5
Milan............................1881
Copenhagen..................1887
Lucknow.......................1881
Sheffield (est., 321,711)...1881
Shanghai........................est.
Rome.............................1881
Munich.........................1886
Cincinnati...................1880
Kiota, Japan.................1884
Seoul, Corea..................est.
Dublin...........................1881
Dresden.........................1886
Lisbon...........................1878
Barcelona.....................1888
Bordeaux......................1886
Santiago, Chili..............1885
Edinburgh....................1881
San Francisco..............1880
Turin.............................1881
Population
3,816,483 2,344,550 1,600,000 1,315,287 1,270,000 1,206,577 1,121,883 929,100 873,565 871,504 847,170 773,196 753,469 674,095 566,689 552,508 503,185 500,000 466,267 463,172 458,939 422,557 410,000 406,261 405,848 401,930 400,774 390,405 390,016 385,888 376,143 368,108 361,694 357,332 354,692 350,519 350,000 341,414 332,313 809,119 305,690 298,893 295,543 286,900 284,779 284,508 278,000 273,268 261,981 255,809 255,403 250,000 249,602 246,086 246,343 241,962 240,582 236,412 236,002 233,959 230,183
Cities
Stockholm.....................1887
Bucharest.....................1876
' Sydney, N. S. W............1881
New Orleans...............1880
Antwerp.......................1888
Alexandria...................1882
Belfast...........................1881
Bristol (est., 226,510)......1881
Palermo........................1881
Smyrna.........................est.
Teheran, Persia.............est.
Benares..........................1881
Havana.........................1888
Rotterdam.....................1888
Penang.........................1881
Lille.............................1886
Nottingh'm (es. 230,021)1881
Montreal.......................1887
Bradford (est., 223,721)...1881
Salford (est., 226,336).....1881
Delhi.............................1881
Leipzig..........................1886
Riga, Russia.................1881
Kharkoff, Russia...........1884
Toronto..........................1888
Bremen........................1886
Prague...........................1880
Cologne.........................1885
Hong Kong...................1881
Cleveland.....................1880
Manila...........................est
Patna.............................est.
Milwaukee..................1885
Pittsburgh..................1880
Buffalo.........................1880
Frankfort......................1885
Odessa...........................1885
Hull (est 202,359)...........1881
Jersey City*..................1885
Newark, U. S.................1885
Cawnpore......................1881
Konigsburg..................1885
Damascus.....................est.
The Hague.....................1888
Ghent............................1888
Toulouse........................1886
Washington..................1880
Newcastle (est, 159,003). 1881
Trieste...........................1880
Valencia........................1877
Allahabad.....................1881
Dundee.........................1881
Liege..............................1888
Bahia.............................1883
Genoa............................1881
Florence........................1881
Christiania, Norway.....1888
Seville...........................1877
Detroit..........................1884
Venice...........................1881
Population
277,964
221,805
220,427
216,690
210,534
208,755
208,122
205,874
205,712
200,000
200,000
199,700
198,261
193,658
190,597
188,272
186,575
186,257
183,032
176,235
173,393
170,310
169,329
166,921
166.809
165,628
162,323
161,260
160,402
160,146
160,000
160,000
158,509
156,389
155,134
154,504
154,240
154,240
153,513
152,513
151,444
151,157
150,000
149,447
147,912
147,617
147,293
145,359
144,844
143,856
143,693
140,239
110,261
140,000
138,081
134,992
135,615
133,938
133,269
129,445
* The population of cities given in the Statesmen's Year Book for 1889 has been selected for this table. That authority gives estimated present population of English cities which is here printed in parentheses.
* Many of the American cities do not hold their proper relative rank in the table because their last censuses were taken ten years ago, while those of most European cities are more recent. 259
 
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