Florentine's geography book

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In the Florentine's book of geography, France is the center of the world! Is that thanks to Pasteur and to the doctors of the time? Europe and the United States of America have a demographic weight more important than the other countries, and especially, relatively much more important than today.
Algeria has a little less than 5 million inhabitants, including the French, Spanish, Italian or Maltese colonists (approximately 700 thousand colonists).

Algeria made great progress since the French occupation. It now has 14.000 km of roads and 3.500 km of railways. The principal line, parallel with the sea, links Oran to Algiers and Constantine, with prolongation on Tunis. (...)
(Algeria) tends more and more to becoming like small France opposite and close to large one.

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Here are some figures found along the book:

Country	Population (millions)
China	385
India	294
Russia	103
United States	76
Germany	56
Austria-Hungary	46
Japan	45
United Kindom	41
France	39
Italia	32,5
Java	27
Brasil	16

In 1906, Saint Petersbourg was capital of Russia and Rio de Janeiro capital of Brasil. In the suburbs of Paris there were only half a million of inhabitants (Saint Denis, 60 000).
Here is for main towns:

Town	Population
New York	3 500 000
London	4 600 000
Paris	2 714 000
Berlin	1 884 000
Chicago	1 700 000
Vienne	1 662 000
St Petersbourg	1 264 000
Constantinople	850 000
Bombay	841 000
Calcutta	840 000
Buenos Aires	795 000
Budapest	713 000
Napoli	572 000
Rio de Janeiro	522 000
Madrid	512 000
Roma	473 000
Melbourne	469 000
Sydney	423 000
Mexico	339 000
Santiago du Chili	336 000