Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1915 — New York Now First of World Cities, Passing London. [ARTICLE]

New York Now First of World Cities, Passing London.

The United States now boasts of the Largest city in the world, New York. London, which had always before held the honor, has been relegated to second position. By reason of losses occasioned by the war, and because of the gigantic mistake in estimating the population, London must admit that the American metropolis is bigger by about a quarter of a million people. Nor are matters improved, as Londoners had hoped for, by comparing the population of Greater London •with that of Greater New York, for theer again the American city beats the older city by about 132,000. It is now four years since the last London census was taken, but the official figures have just been made public.

Paris ranks third in the cities of the world, with a population of 2,846,986; Chicago is fourth with 2,185,283; Tokio is fifth with 2,168,151, and Berlin sixth with 2,064,153.