A Comparative Analysis of Socio-economic Development of Cities with a Population Over a Million People

The article provides a comparative analysis of the socio-economic development of cities with a population of 1 million to 2 million people. The basic methods of research and assessment of socio-economic development of cities and regions are identified and analyzed. The authors propose the method for cluster analysis of key factors of the development of cities with more than a million inhabitants. Based on the results of the study, the authors have outlined the factors with the greatest influence on the development of cities with population over a million people, the dependence of the GRP per capita as the indicator of the level of socio-economic development on such factors as availability of access to the sea, developed transport infrastructure, favorable climatic conditions