AUTHOR=Hayata Kazuya 

TITLE=Birth, Annexation, and Squeezing of Cities in a Prefecture: Can the Ranking of Competitive Areas of Municipalities Obey the Authentic Power Law?

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Physics

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2021

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/physics/articles/10.3389/fphy.2021.789571

DOI=10.3389/fphy.2021.789571

ISSN=2296-424X

ABSTRACT=As the first step for revealing potential rules inherent in cities that are closely squeezed in a sectioned domain, municipalities in the entire prefecture in Japan are considered and their distributions of the areas are analyzed in details according to a rank-size procedure.