censuses.

DISTRIBUTION OF THE POPULATION EAST OF THE 100TH MERIDIAN IN 1850

As defined by the Census Office, ur- or more. The proportions of urban and rural ban population is that residing in cities and population, under this classification, are shown other incorporated places of 2,500 inhabitants in the following table:

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES

It is thus obvious that by the time another | strictly rural districts. The incidence of this federal census is taken, the percentage of the change, by states and geographical divisions, urban population will be larger than that in is shown in the following table:

TABLE VI.-URBAN POPULATION BY STATES AND GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS

As a result of this concentration of munic-rately from New York); nineteen cities with ipal population, the United States now has three cities with a population of over one million (four, if Brooklyn is considered sepa

populations of over 250,000, four of which, Newark, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Jersey City, have advanced into this group since

2 Estimated population in 1890 of the area of present New York. The population of New York as it existed in 1890 was 1,515,301.

3 Includes population of Allegheny, which was, in 1900, 129,896, and in 1890, 105,287.

The ten largest cities in the world are shown | in the United States, New York ranking second in the following table, three of the ten being and Chicago fifth:

TABLE VIII.-TEN LARGEST CITIES IN THE WORLD