It is a primate city in terms of its large population being nearly eight percent of Thailand's total population.
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Countries with a primate city, for example, have typically had a colonial history that accounts for that city pattern.
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Undoubtedly, KL is a primate city with its inhabitants enjoying higher wages and better standard of living due to economic development in the capital.
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Countries with a primate city, a city that dominates in population size and, usually, economically, have a deficit of intermediate size cities.
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A capital city that is also the prime economic, cultural, or intellectual centre of a nation or an empire is sometimes referred to as a primate city.
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Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, has been called " the most primate city on Earth ", being forty times larger than Thailand's second-largest city of Chiang Mai.
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Some countries, such as the United States, Australia and Canada, have regional and / or provincial / state primate cities, such as Atlanta, Georgia; Perth in Western Australia.
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Combined with the role of Podgorica as primate city of Montenegro, with national concentration of administrative, healthcare, educational and economic activities, daily population is likely significantly higher than official resident population.
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In 1980, Bangkok's population was fifty-one times that of Hat Yai and Songkhla, the second-largest urban centre, making it the world's most prominent primate city.
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The presence of a primate city in a country may indicate an imbalance in development usually a progressive core, and a lagging periphery, on which the city depends for labor and other resources.
