What is Primate city?
'''Primate cities''' are [[City|cities]] which have more [[Human|people]] and influence than any other city. Primate cites have more than twice as many people than any other in the country. They are more important in [[resource]]s, [[education]], [[health care]] than the country's second largest city. Countries with primate cities often have [[inequality]] in its [[development]], but richer countries as well as poorer countries can have primate cities. [[File:Countries without a primate city.svg|300px|thumb|Countries without a primate city in red.]] An example of a rich country having a primate city is the [[United Kingdom]], where its largest city [[London]] has over eight times as many people as its second largest city, [[Birmingham]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-kingdom-population/cities/|title=Population of Cities in United Kingdom (2018)|website=worldpopulationreview.com|access-date=2018-11-21|archive-date=2018-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181121230449/http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/united-kingdom-population/cities/|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Bangkok]] is a primate city because its [[population]] is nine times bigger than the [[Chiang Mai|second largest city]] in [[Thailand]]. 70% of the country's resources go to Bangkok.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://theculturalchronicles.com/2017/11/27/bangkok-the-worlds-most-extreme-primate-city/|title=Bangkok, the World's Most Extreme Primate City - The Cultural Chronicles|date=2017-11-27|work=The Cultural Chronicles|access-date=2018-11-25|language=en-US}}</ref> The [[United States]] has never had a primate city on a national level due to the [[decentralization|decentralized]] nature of the country, and because the [[Los Angeles|second largest city]] of the country is not far behind in population and [[GDP]]. [[New York City]], which is the largest city and the largest economy in the United States, is for this reason not a primate city of the country. The [[metropolitan area]] of New York City ha