Politics-ridden St. Clair county in Illinois presents another piece of the problem of metropolitan development.

Bergen County, part of the New York metropolitan area, has one of the largest concentrations of enclosed retail shopping malls of any county in the nation ; four major malls lie within the county.

When the new metropolitan counties ( Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Tyne & Wear, West Midlands, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire ) were created in 1974, their sub-divisions also became metropolitan boroughs ; in many cases these metropolitan boroughs recapitulated abolished county boroughs ( for example, Stockport ).

The metropolitan boroughs possessed slightly more autonomy from the metropolitan county councils than the shire county districts did from their county councils.

With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present.

Modern cable systems are large, with a single network and headend often serving an entire metropolitan area or county.

In 1986, the metropolitan county councils and Greater London were abolished.

This restored autonomy ( in effect the old county borough status ) to the metropolitan and London boroughs.

* 1986 – Six metropolitan county councils are abolished in England.

Over two-thirds of Nevada's people live in one single county, Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas – Paradise metropolitan area, where the state's three largest incorporated cities are located.

The metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties had replaced in 1974 a system of administrative counties and county boroughs which were introduced in 1889.

In continental France ( metropolitan France, excluding Corsica ), the median land area of a department is, which is two-and-a-half times the median land area of a ceremonial county of England & Wales and slightly more than three-and-half times the median land area of a county of the United States.

Under the Local Government Act 1972, a proposal for Kidderminster to be part of the West Midlands metropolitan county was disbanded following a trimming of the county boundary back to Stourbridge.

Washington county has experienced a population boom, and is one of the fastest growing counties in the country, due to an influx of people from the Washignton-Baltimore metropolitan areas.

In 1969 it recommended a system of single-tier unitary authorities for the whole of England, apart from three metropolitan areas of Merseyside, Selnec ( Greater Manchester ) and West Midlands ( Birmingham and the Black Country ), which were to have both a metropolitan council and district councils.

The Israeli government has designated a Nazareth metropolitan area that includes the local councils of Yafa an-Naseriyye to the south, Reineh, Mashhad and Kafr Kanna to the north, Iksal and Nazareth Illit to the east and Migdal HaEmek to the west.

Since 2001, these have been led by democratically elected local councils, each headed by a Nazim ( the word means " supervisor " in Urdu, but is sometimes translated as Mayor ). Some districts, incorporating large metropolitan areas, are called City District.

To preserve city status, new letters patent were issued to the metropolitan borough, non-metropolitan district or successor parish councils created by the 1972 Act.

* Provincial councils, which consist of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province smaller than a nation, are convoked by the metropolitan with consent of a majority of the suffragan bishops.

The metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986 with most of their functions being devolved to the individual boroughs, making them de facto unitary authorities.

Since 1982, following the French government ’ s policy of decentralisation, overseas departments have elected regional councils with powers similar to those of the regions of metropolitan France.

The George Town metropolitan area covers several districts and is jointly managed by the following 13 local councils:

From 1986, these metropolitan counties do not have county councils but rather joint boards for certain functions.

Since 1982, following the French government ’ s policy of decentralisation, overseas departments have elected regional councils with powers similar to those of the regions of metropolitan France.

The AFL also encouraged the formation of local labor bodies ( known as central labor councils ) in major metropolitan areas in which all of the affiliates could participate.

Thatcher's other chief opponent in local government, Ken Livingstone of the Greater London Council, was left powerless when she abolished the metropolitan county councils and GLC in 1986.

The status of the London boroughs and metropolitan districts changed in 1986, when they absorbed the functions and some of the powers of the metropolitan county councils and the Greater London Council which were abolished.

These are similar to unitary authorities, as the metropolitan county councils were abolished in 1986.

The Manchester Airports Group plc ( commonly abbreviated to MAG ) is a holding company owned by the ten metropolitan borough councils of Greater Manchester, in North West England.

New Yorkers were kept informed of scores by reporters who telegraphed fifteen to twenty thousand words daily to the metropolitan newspapers.

In 1899, as part of a reform of local government in the County of London, the various parishes in London were reorganised as new entities, the ' metropolitan boroughs '.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

The acts of the process were sent either to the metropolitan or primate, who carefully examined the cause, and, after consultation with the suffragan bishops, declared whether the defunct was worthy of the name of ' martyr ' and public veneration.

The Halifax metropolitan area has come to dominate peninsular Nova Scotia as a retail and service centre, but that province's industries were spread out from the coal and steel industries of industrial Cape Breton and Pictou counties, the mixed farming of the North Shore and Annapolis Valley, and the fishing industry was primarily focused on the South Shore and Eastern Shore.

A paradoxical effect of this autonomy was that Guineans could choose among several political parties while metropolitan Spaniards were under a single party regime.

Starting in 1019, Albanian dioceses of the Byzantine rite were suffragans of the independent Archdiocese of Ohrid until Dyrrachion and Nicopolis, were re-established as metropolitan sees.

The Jacksonville metropolitan area and television market were smaller than nearly every other city with a team.

At the 1999 French census, there were 293, 159 inhabitants in the metropolitan area ( aire urbaine ) of Le Mans, with 146, 105 of these living in the city proper ( commune ).

Gradually, episcopacies were established in metropolitan areas.

The largest metropolitan areas, based on 2007 population, were:

Moreover, as metropolitan areas expanded and enveloped smaller but well-established nearby cities, it made little sense to call those old cities " suburbs " merely because they were smaller and less renowned than the central city.

After 1919, as the suburbs of Paris were ever expanding, Versailles was absorbed by the urban area of Paris and the city experienced a strong demographic and economic growth, turning it into a large suburban city of the metropolitan area of Paris.

* 742: For the municipal census of the Tang Dynasty Chinese capital city Chang ' an and its metropolitan area of Jingzhou Fu ( including small towns in the vicinity ), the New Book of Tang records that in this year there were 362, 921 registered families with 1, 960, 188 persons.

During the war, the make-up of Mecklenburg and Vorpommern's population changed due to wartime losses and the influx of evacuees ( mainly from the Berlin and Hamburg metropolitan areas that were subject to air raids ).

The MMTB, along with the metropolitan railway assets of VicRail, were absorbed into the newly formed Metropolitan Transit Authority ( MTA ) on 1 July 1983, while the regional assets of VicRail were absorbed by the State Transit Authority ( STA ).