Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — The Population of the Earth. [ARTICLE]

The Population of the Earth.

In an appendix to “Petermann’s Mittheilungen,” just issued, there are complete statistics of the population of the earth, in which a table of the great cities (witji more than 100,000 inhabitants) is of great interest. Of such cities England has thirty, Germany twenty-four, France and Russia each twelve, Italy ten, Aus-tria-Hungary six, Spain five, Belgium, the Scandinavian States, Roumania and the Balkan Islands each four, the Netherlands three, Portugal two; the total in Europe being 116 great cities. Asia has 105, China having fifty-three and British India thirty. In Africa there are seven, in America forty, of which the United States have twenty-six, South America nine. Australia has only two large cities.