A mysterious law that predicts the size of the world's biggest cities

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By rprice , 23 January 2014

Link

http://io9.com/the-mysterious-law-that-governs-the-size-of-your-city-1479244159

dubbed Zipf's law, the rank vs. frequency rule also works if you apply it to the sizes of cities. The city with the largest population in any country is generally twice as large as the next-biggest, and so on. Incredibly, Zipf's law for cities has held true for every country in the world, for the past century.