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Exploring Primate Cities with Google Earth

Exploring Primate Cities with Google Earth. What is a Primate City?. Answer: A city whose population is at least twice that of the next largest city in its country Also the cultural, economic, or political center of a country . Istanbul, Turkey. London, England. Paris, France.

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Exploring Primate Cities with Google Earth

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  1. Exploring Primate Cities with Google Earth

  2. What is a Primate City? • Answer: A city whose population is at least twice that of the next largest city in its country Also the cultural, economic, or political center of a country Istanbul, Turkey London, England Paris, France Examples

  3. How can we find every Primate City in the world? • List all countries in the world • List all cities in each country • Find the population of each city • For each country, calculate Primate City Ratio: largest city / second largest city • Instead… City and Country Info Primate Cities City Population Data

  4. Visualizing Primate Cities in Google Earth

  5. Your Task • Choose a partner • Choose a primate city • Family lives there, or you are from there • You have visited • You would like to visit • Or, you know nothing about 3. Use Google Earth to explore why your city has become a primate city • Site • Situation • Draw or attraction Physical features, landforms, climate, vegetation, availability of water, … The location of a place relative to its surroundings… Cultural, economic, administrative centers …

  6. Example: Kathmandu as a Primate City Situation: Sits along an ancient trade route between India and Tibet Site: In a valley around Himalayan mountain range (+ 20,000 ft)

  7. Visualizing Population with Cartograms 186,410 790,612

  8. Use Google Earth to Mark Important Places in Your City • Mark important places that indicate site, situation, draw/attraction • Create a tour of your city

  9. How to place a landmark

  10. How to add a caption to a landmark Type some text here!

  11. How to change a landmark’s color Type some text here!

  12. How to add images to captions

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