Urban Regions : Ecology and Planning Beyond the City

Table

5.1

(cont.)

City (Nation)

Populationof city

Latitude◦()

Elevation(m)

Tem

perature

◦(C)

Precipitation(cm)

Metroperimeter(km)

Metro area(km

2 )

Metro P/Aratio

Metro L/Wratio

AFRICACairo (Egypt)

6 789 000

30N

116

21.1

3

193

543

0.36

2.1

Na

irobi (Kenya)

2 143 000

1S

1657

19.6

87

82

159

0.52

2.1

Bamako (Mali)

1 083 000

13N

527

28.1

112

87

201

0.43

1.8

East London (South

Africa)

332 000

33S

125

18.6

81

59

85

0.69

1.8

Abeche (Chad)

263 000

15N

295

27.9

50?

21

24

0.88

1.7

WEST to EAST ASIABeijing (P. R. China)

10 820 000

40N

52

11.8

62

230

1 243

0.19

1.4

Moscow (Russia)

10 360 000

56N

154

4.4

63

318

1 111

0.29

1.1

Seoul (Korea)

9 900 000

38N

34

12.2

134

252

971

0.26

2.1

Tehran (Iran)

6 935 000

36N

1217

16.5

25

196

575

0.34

1.4

Sapporo (Japan)

1 823 000

43N

17

8.2

113

165

370

0.45

1.5

Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia)

760 000

48N

1155

−2.2

19

62

80

0.78

3.2

Erzurum (Turkey)

578 000

40N

1757

6

44

31

33

0.94

2

Kagoshima (Japan)

554 000

32N

5

16.6

224

77

113

0.68

2.8

SOUTH ASIA to

AUSTR

ALIA

Bangkok (Thailand)

6 355 000

14N

2

27.6

140

195

751

0.26

1.7

Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

1 379 000

3N

22

26.6

237

331

871

0.38

1.6

Cuttack (India)

588 000

20N

15

?

152

55

72

0.76

2.2

Samarinda (Indonesia)

546 000

0S

230

27?

250?

34

41

0.83

2.3

Canberra (Australia)

309 000

35S

558

13.3

58

113

240

0.47

2.2

Rahimyar Khan (Pakistan)

258 000

29N

82

?

10?

29

26

1.12

1.8