The second-largest city is half Almaty’s size, the third-largest city a third of Almaty’s size, and so on down the city ranks. The 2009 curve is the real city size distribution of FUAs, while the 1999 curve reflects the deviation of 1999 city size distribution from Zipfs Law in 1999. Almaty City is given its 2009 size in the 1999 curve.