MISCELLANEOUS PACTS AND FIGURES. 



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Largest Cities of the Earth. 



POPULATION ACCORDING TO THE LATEST OFFICIAL CENSUSES. 



* With suburbs. 



NOTE. The population of Chinese cities other than Canton, Peking, and Shanghai isomitted, because reports 

 respecting it are utterly untrustworthy. There are forty or more Chinese cities whose inhabitants are numbered 

 by rumor at from 200,000 to 1,000,000 each, but no official censuses have ever been taken ; and, setting aside consid- 

 eration of the Oriental tendency to exaggeration, there is reason to believe that the estimates of population in 

 many instances covered districts of country bearing the same names as the cities, instead of definite munici- 

 palities. 



