This paper examines the effect of the internet on city size distribution at a global level based on city identification in nearly 100 countries. The results show that the internet first promotes the decentralization of the national city size distribution and then promotes the concentration with an increase in the internet penetration rate. These results differ from those found in the existing literature and help deepen the understanding of the internet's impact on city size distribution by providing new evidence with more reliable data and unified city definitions. The findings also have important policy implications for predicting population distribution and planning human habitations at the national level.

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互联网能否重塑全国城市规模分布？跨国证据

本文基于近 100 个国家的城市识别，考察了互联网对全球城市规模分布的影响。结果表明，随着互联网普及率的提高，互联网首先促进了全国城市规模分布的分散，然后又促进了集中。这些结果与现有文献中的结果不同，通过提供具有更可靠数据和统一城市定义的新证据，有助于加深对互联网对城市规模分布影响的理解。研究结果对于在国家层面预测人口分布和规划人类居住区也具有重要的政策意义。