EMPIRE IN FIGURES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 14 April 1908, Page 6

EMPIRE IN FIGURES.

POPULATION OF THE GREATEST CITIES.

11,000,000 SQUARE MILES.

A mass of information, which will bring a feeling of pride to every Briton, is contained in the statistical abstract for the British Empire. The total population of the Empire is 387,991,000, and the total area 11,323,000 square miles, these figures being made, up: as follows: — Population. Sq. miles. V.X 44,104,000 121,000 India 294,317,000 1,767,000 Other colonies & possessions ... 49,570,000 9,435,000 Canada has an area of 3,745,574 square miles and a population of 5,983,558; while Australia, with an area of 2,974,581 square miles, has a population of 4,129,828. Thus, while the United Kingdom has a population of 364.5 men to the square mUe, Australian numbers under 1.5 men to the same area. \ EMPIRE'S LARGEST CITIES. Cities in the British Empire with a J population (in 1906) above half a million are: — London County 4,758,218 Calcutta 955,926 Bombay 982,000 Glasgow „.. 847,684 Liverpool 746,144 Manchester (not Salford) 643,148 Birmingham 553,155 Madras 648,974 Sydney 538,800 Melbourne 526,400 The total' value of the foreign and inter-Imperial trade of the Empire amounts to £1,526,018^000. This huge volume of trade is made up as -follows:— -' v u< . - ■- • • '. , Foreign trade £1,129,778,000 Inter-Imperial trade 396,240,000

How overwhelming is the preponder- j ance of British shipping may be judg- J ed from the following table of vessels 5 entered and cleared in the United j Kingdom from and to all British colonies and possessions in 1906: — Entered Cleared Tons. Tons. British ... ... 6,914,896 6,998,979 Norwegian ... 267,902 199,248 German 194,241 182,191 French 46,397 36,040 Other countries make up a grand total of 7,592,521 tons entered and 7,550,080 tons cleared. ! How many people are aware that Hongkong is the second largest port in the world in point of tonnage of yes- . sels entered? This fact is demonstrate j ed in the following table showing the tonnage of British and foreign vessels which entered the principal ports of the Empire: — Tons. London 11,222,542 Hongkong 11,050,070 Liverpool 8,145,441 Singapore 6,466,411 Colombo 6,281,164 Tyne ports 5,548,111 Cardiff 5,295,331 Glasgow 1,842,416