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Modern Business Geography 
TaBLE 5 — CoMMERCIAL CITIES OF THE WORLD 
In this table are given first the cities of 200,000 population and more, (A) in the United 
States, (B) in the rest of the world. Next (C) come important cities of less than 200,000 
population, in the United States. The figures in the columns for population are given in 
thousands; that is, 215 means 215,000; 324 means 324,000, etc. 
(A) Cries IN THE UNITED STATES 
Population of 200,000 or more (Bureau of Estimate, 1928) 
City 
SEAPORTS | 
Baltimore. . . . 
Boston. . . . . 
Houston . . . . 
Jersey City . . . 
Los Angeles . . . 
Newark . . . 
New Orleans? . . 
New York . . . 
Dakland . . . . 
Philadelphia? . . 
Portlandz . . . 
Providence . . . 
San Francisco . . 
Seattle. . . . . 
AKE PORTS 
Buffalo . . . . 
Chicago . . . . 
Cleveland. . . 
Detroit . . 
Milwaukee . 
Porura- 
TION 
‘In thou- 
sands) 
830 
780 
275 
345 
1.5600 
474 
429 
5,017 
274 
2.064 
355 
286 
585 
383 
556 
3,167 
1,010 
1,379 
544. 
STATE 
Md. 
Mass. 
Tex. 
N. J. 
Calif. 
N. J. 
La. 
N.Y. 
Calif. 
Pa. 
Ore. 
R. I. 
Calif. 
Wash. 
N.Y. 
1. 
Ohio 
Mich. 
Wis 
CIry 
Rochester. . . . 
Toledo. . . . . 
River Ports 
Cincinnati. 
Kansas City . 
Louisville . . 
Minneapolis . 
Pittsburgh . 
St. Louis . . 
St. Paul . . 
Washington 
[INLAND CITIES 
Akron . . . 
Atlanta . . 
Birmingham . 
Columbus . . 
Denver . . . 
[ndianapolis . . 
Omaha . . . 
San Antonio . 
Porura- 
TION 
{In thou- 
sands) 
322 
313 
| 
414 
391 
329 
456 
674 
848 
358 
552 
240 
255 
224 
299 
294 
382 
382 
213 
STATE 
N.Y. 
Ohio 
Ohio 
Mo. 
Ky. 
Minn. 
Pa. 
Mo. 
Minn. 
D.C. 
Ohio 
Ga. 
Ala. 
Ohio 
Colo. 
Ind. 
| Neb. 
Tex. 
‘B) Cities OutsipE THE UNITED STATES 
Population of 200.000 or more 
City 
Pop- 
OLA- » 
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(In 
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ande) 
COUNTRY 
SEAPORTS 
Adelaide . . 
\lexandria. . 
\lgiers . . . 
\moy . . . 
Amsterdam . 
Antwerp . . 
Athens and 
Pireus . . 
Auckland . . 
Bahia . . .: 
Bangkok . . 
Barcelona . . | 
Ratavia. . . 
328| ’27 
373] 27 
226) ’26 
300( 27 
735) 27 
2001 ’927 
Australia 
Egypt 
\lgeria 
“hina 
Netherlands 
Belgium 
700% °28 
207] °28 
283] 20 
567 ’20 
760 
200 
(Greece 
New Zealand 
Brazil 
Siam . 
Spain 
Java 
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Pop- 
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(In 
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Cen 
SUS 
YEAR 
COUNTRY 
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Tndia 
France 
Germany 
Australia 
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3elgium 
Argentina 
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China 
South Africa 
England 
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