Rank-Size Rule
The rank-size rule is an empirical regularity describing the size distribution of cities within a country or region. In its simplest form, popularized by George Kingsley Zipf in 1949, the population of a city is inversely proportional to its rank, so the second-largest city is about half the size of the largest, the third about a third, and so on. Generalized to a power law with an exponent q, it provides a compact way to summarize how evenly or unevenly population is spread across a settlement system and to diagnose urban primacy.
Soma mbinu kamili
Ingia kwa akaunti ya bure ili kusoma sehemu hii.
Ramani ya mbinu
Jirani ya mbinu zinazohusiana — chagua nodi ili kuchunguza.
Vyanzo
- Zipf, G. K. (1949). Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort. Addison-Wesley, Cambridge, MA. ISBN: 9781614273790
Jinsi ya kunukuu ukurasa huu
ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Rank-Size Rule (Zipf's Law for City Sizes). ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/sw/human-geography/rank-size-rule
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- Central Place AnalysisHuman Geography↔ linganisha
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