If the largest city in an economically integrated region has a population of 10,000,000, then according to the rank-size rule the fifth-largest city in that region should have a population of:

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The rank-size rule suggests that the nth largest city in a region is 1/n the size of the largest city. Therefore, the fifth-largest city would be 1/5 the size of the largest city, which is 10,000,000 / 5 = 2,000,000.

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