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c. Industrial cities (noisy, blue-collar, factory centers host to central manufacturing industries) e.g., Bombay, Sao Paulo, Chicago-Gary area

d. Commercial cities (giant marketplaces or bazaars where goods and services are bartered and exchanged on a worldwide basis) e.g., New York, Hong Kong

e. Symbolic cities (cities where great struggles are fought and settled and symbolized, or which represent issues of division, oppression, warfare, religious hatred, or freedom within their countries or to the rest of the world) e.g., Soweto, Belfast, Berlin, Beirut, Jerusalem

f. Primary cities (cites which combine all of the preceding characteristics, and can be said to be the greatest of the great cities) e.g., Bangkok, Mexico City, London

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3. Where do most city dwellers live? The fifteen largest urban agglomerations, ranked by population size by 2015. Currently, twelve of the largest cities are in Asia, three in South America, two in the USA and one in Africa (World Urbanization Prospects; the 1996 Revision. New York: The United Nations, 1998) [population totals as of 1998].

a. Tokyo, Japan 28.9

b. Bombay, India 26.2

c. Lagos, Nigeria 24.6