The charts below show the growth in the population in some of the world’s largest cities over three time periods. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The charts below show the growth in the population in some of the world’s largest cities over three time periods. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
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The bar charts illustrate the growth in the population in some of the world's largest cities ( Tokyo, New
York
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, Shanghai,
Bombay
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and
Jakarta
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) over three time periods ( 1970, 1990 and 2010 ). As a general overview, after analyzing the graph, it can be seen that Tokyo was highest populated city among others in each year.
On the contrary
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,
Jakarta
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was
least
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in both years except 2010 when New
York
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reached to least.
To begin
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with, in 1970, Tokyo had more than 15 million citizens and surpassed the rest
while
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the least ,
Jakarta
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, was almost zero approximately 2
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millions
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million
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.
Futhermore
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Furthermore
, New
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york
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York
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and Shanghai were close to each other with almost 14 and 12
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millions
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million
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respectively.
Lastly
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,
Bombay
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were
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just 5 million in 1970. Moving on to 1990, the orders were
same
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the same
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among the popular cities
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however
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, in
this
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year
Bombay
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and
Jakarta
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saw
significant
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increase more than doubled
than
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from
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their previous year to 12 and 8
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millions
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million
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inhabitants .
Although
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, New
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york
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York
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and Shanghai
also
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climbed
but
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apply
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with almost 3
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millions
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million
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total.
Tokya
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Tokyo
had still the first one and peaked rapidly with almost 10 million people.
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in 2010, again all five cities showed an upward trend especially
Bombay
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had
most
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the most
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, doubled its population in two decades.
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Vocabulary: Rephrase your introduction. Words match: 85%.
Vocabulary: Replace the words york, bombay, jakarta, millions with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "almost" was used 4 times.
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