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The city proper is bisected by the Huangpu River, a tributary of the Yangtze.
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The population of the city of Alicante proper was 334, 329, estimated, ranking as the second-largest Valencian city.
With a population of 3. 5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city and is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union.
Together with nearby Anglet, Biarritz, Saint-Jean-de-Luz, and several smaller communes, Bayonne forms an urban area with 178, 965 inhabitants at the 1999 census, 40, 078 of whom lived in the city of Bayonne proper ( 44, 300 as of 2004 estimates ).
Around this time, the county of the City of Dublin was established along with certain liberties adjacent to the city proper.
Previously located within the city proper ( near Asakusa ), the districts were rebuilt in this more-remote location after the Meireki Fire of 1657.
The municipality comprises the city of Ghent proper and the surrounding towns of Afsnee, Desteldonk, Drongen, Gentbrugge, Ledeberg, Mariakerke, Mendonk, Oostakker, Sint-Amandsberg, Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Sint-Kruis-Winkel, Wondelgem and Zwijnaarde.
The population of Gary proper was 80, 294 at the time of the 2010 census, making it the seventh-largest city in the state of Indiana.
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 ).
While 680, 000 people lived in the city proper in 1950, a combination of suburbanization and economic turbulence caused a sharp decrease in city population to just 330, 000 in the year 2000.
The cities comprised several municipalities, divided into " urban " ( in the city proper ) and " other " ( suburban ).
Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the largest city proper by population in the world.
In 2011 the city proper had a population of 70, 063, and the population of the Saint John Metro region is currently 127, 761.
In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.
city and is
On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.
It is said that, even at the present stage of Southern urbanization, such a city as Atlanta is not distinctly unlike Columbus or Trenton.
The thousands of city migrants who desert the farms yearly must readjust with even greater stress and tension: the sacred wilderness is gradually surrendering to suburbs and research parks and industrial areas.
Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.
It is remembered and has been commemorated by a bust in a park and a square in the city which was renamed Piazzo Lauro Di Bosis after the war.
Falling somewhere in a category between Einstein's theory and sand fleas -- difficult to see but undeniably there, nevertheless -- is the tropical green `` city '' of Islandia, a string of offshore islands that has almost no residents, limited access and an unlimited future.
But it would greatly strengthen any Mayor's executive powers, remove the excuse in large degree that he is a captive of inaction in the Board of Estimate, increase his budget-making authority both as to expense and capital budgets, and vest in him the right to reorganize city departments in the interest of efficiency and economy.
A road block to desirable local or borough improvements, heretofore dependent on the pocketbook vote of taxpayers and hence a drag on progress, is removed by making these a charge against the whole city instead of an assessment paid by those immediately affected.
`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.
If an atom bomb in 1945 could destroy an entire city surely the atomic arsenal we now have is more than adequate to fulfill any military objective required of it.
The Lenin tomb is obviously adequate for double occupancy, Moscow is a crowded city, and the creed of Communism deplores waste.
Even apart from the fact that now at the age of 31 my personal life is being totally disrupted for the second time for no very compelling reason -- I cannot help looking around at the black leather jacket brigades standing idly on the street corners and in the taverns of every American city and asking myself if our society has gone mad.
It should be kept in mind that the ease or difficulty with which a town or city can convert to the proposed plan is directly dependent upon the financial condition of that town or city.
Just after sunset is a good time to record the city lights in color since you get a `` fill-in '' light from the sky.
Even when they are finished, however, the contrast will remain, for Istanbul is the only city in the world that is built upon two continents.
city and bisected
The city is bisected by major highways, I-90 and I-93, the intersection of which has recently undergone a major renovation, nicknamed the Big Dig.
The circumferential routes are bisected by several radial highways that were planned to start in downtown Boston and proceed outward from the city.
The city is bisected by the Kentucky River, which makes an s-turn as it passes through the center of town.
The city is roughly bisected by the North Canadian River ( recently renamed the Oklahoma River inside city limits ).
The city is bisected by the San Diego River, a linear greenbelt that includes parks, trails and more than of natural riparian habitat.
The city is bisected by four main thoroughfares: Mast Boulevard and Mission Gorge Road traverse east and west, while Magnolia Avenue and Cuyamaca Street cross north and south.
The city is bisected by the San Diego River, which flows east to west for approximately within the city limits.
Six original squares still exist in the city, although all but one, Hanover, have been bisected by a city street.
It is today bisected by I-64 and effectively an edge city to Louisville, with a great number of office parks and shopping centers, as well as an industrial park, concentrated within a few blocks of Hurstbourne Parkway, on land that was undeveloped 40 years earlier.
The city is bisected by New Jersey Route 495, a vehicular cut built in conjunction with the Lincoln Tunnel.
Hattiesburg is a city in Mississippi, bisected between Forrest County ( where it is the county seat ) and Lamar County.
Issaquah is bisected by Interstate 90, which runs from Seattle to Boston, and Washington State Route 900, which connects the city to neighboring Renton.
The city is serviced by Interstate 64, U. S. Route 60, U. S. Route 119, West Virginia Route 601 and West Virginia Route 214, and is bisected by the Kanawha River.
Outside the city, farming and forestry are two major industries in the county, which is bisected by the Saint John River.
The city is bisected by Mithraphap Road, also known as ' Friendship Highway ', or ' Highway 2 ', the road linking Bangkok to the Thai-Lao Friendship Bridge.
It is roughly bisected by Sullivans Creek and is bordered by the native bushland of Black Mountain, Lake Burley Griffin, the suburb of Turner and the city centre.
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