At last they saw Calcutta, largest city of Bengal and the Caravan's destination.

It is the second largest city in Japan, with about four million people.

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

Amsterdam (; ) is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands.

The largest city in the Aegean Region of Turkey is İzmir, which is also the country's third largest city and second largest port after Istanbul.

Toward the east, the extensive plains around Adana, Turkey's fifth largest city, consist largely of reclaimed flood lands.

In December 1988, the second largest city in the republic, Leninakan ( now Gyumri ), was heavily damaged by a massive quake that killed more than 25, 000 people.

The capital and largest city is Yerevan.

Athens (;, Athína ; ; Katharevousa: Ἀθῆναι, Athinai ; Ancient Greek: Ἀθῆναι, Athēnai ) is the capital and largest city of Greece.

During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.

* 1902 – Quetzaltenango, the second largest city of Guatemala, is destroyed by an earthquake.

Much of the city, including the oil refinery which was the world's largest refinery with capacity of 680, 000 barrels per day, was badly damaged or destroyed by the siege and by bombing.

The 2010 census places the population at 113, 934, making it the sixth largest city in Michigan.

Former commissioner Pete Rozelle and Smith made the deal in about five minutes and the Atlanta Falcons brought the largest and most popular sport to the city of Atlanta.

Between 1940 and 1990, Phoenix jumped from the 99th largest city in the nation to the 9th largest ( it is currently the 6th largest ).

The largest employer in Aarau is the Canton government, the offices of which are distributed across the entire city at numerous locations.

It is the largest city in the Abadeh-Eghlid district, which is famed for its carved wood-work, made of the wood of pear and box trees.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.

In spite of the fact that our largest market, the textile industry, was affected substantially by the current decline in business activity, we have been able to produce and deliver our machines throughout the year 1960 at a rate materially higher than during 1959.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

The suborder Neobatrachia is by far the largest group and includes the remaining families of modern frogs, including most common species.

Alaska () is the largest state in the United States by area.

The largest structure ever made from adobe ( bricks ) was the Bam Citadel, which suffered serious damage ( up to 80 %) by an earthquake on December 26, 2003.

The army is by far the largest of the services with about 120, 000 men and women.

The two largest basins on the plateau are the Konya Ovasi and the basin occupied by the large salt lake, Tuz Gölü.

The largest archipelagic state in the world, by area and population, is Indonesia.

* 1944 – Continuation War: The Vyborg – Petrozavodsk Offensive, the largest offensive launched by Soviet Union against Finland during World War II, ends to a strategic stalemate.

Lake Sevan, across at its widest point and long, is by far the largest lake.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

At 2. 5 troy oz ( 78 g ) gold, this is the largest ( by weight ) coin ever produced by the U. S. Mint.

The largest successful publicly known brute force attack against any block-cipher encryption was against a 64-bit RC5 key by distributed. net in 2006.

Some 98 % of Antarctica is covered by the Antarctic ice sheet, the world's largest ice sheet and also its largest reservoir of fresh water.

The largest abalone recorded in California is 12. 34 inches, caught by John Pepper somewhere off the coast of Humboldt county in September 1993.

Landing men on the Moon by the end of 1969 required the most sudden burst of technological creativity, and the largest commitment of resources ($ 24 billion ), ever made by any nation in peacetime.

* 1990 – Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton found to date, was discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.

The software, maintained by AOL, Inc., at one time had the largest share of the instant messaging market in North America, especially in the United States ( with 52 % of the total reported as of 2006 ).

Phase I began in 1995, and limited sulfur dioxide emissions from 110 of the largest power plants to a combined total of 8. 7 million tons of sulfur dioxide.

The banking sector is highly concentrated, with the three largest banks holding nearly 60 % of total financial sector assets.

The Bantu language with the largest total number of speakers is Swahili ; however, nearly all speakers know it as a second language.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

The Chilean forestry industry grew to comprise 13 % of the country ’ s total exports in 2005, making it one of the largest export sectors for Chile.

Within the forestry sector, the largest contributor to total production is pulp, followed by wood-based panels and lumber.

Njazidja is the largest island, sixty-seven kilometers long and twenty-seven kilometers wide, with a total area of 1, 146 square kilometers.

Northern coyotes are typically larger than southern subspecies, with the largest coyotes on record weighing and measuring in total length.

The CPC is the world's largest political party, claiming over 80 million members at the end of 2010 which constitutes about 6. 0 % of the total population of mainland China.

In the final, Australia made 359 runs for the loss of two wickets, the largest ever total in a final, defeating India by 125 runs.

The largest park is Mills Park, which has a total of of land.

The embedded CPU family with the largest number of total units shipped is the 8051, averaging nearly a billion units per year.

In 2006 the Danish military budget was the fifth largest single portion of the Danish Government's total budget, significantly less than that of the Ministry of Social Affairs (~ 110 billion DKK ), Ministry of Employment (~ 67 billion DKK ), Ministry of the Interior and Health (~ 66 billion DKK ) and Ministry of Education (~ 30 billion DKK ) and only slightly larger than that of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (~ 14 billion DKK ).

President Papadakis oversaw Drexel's largest expansion ever, the endowment increased + 471 % to $ 540M, and total enrollment increased + 102 % to 18, 466.

Dartmouth is the largest private landowner of the town of Hanover, and its total landholdings and facilities are worth an estimated $ 434 million.

In 2005, industry had a 26. 3 % share of the GDP ; services were the largest sector with a 65 % participation in the economy ; agriculture was least economically important sector ( with only an 8. 7 % share in the GDP ), but was by far the largest employer ( 80 % of the total labor force ).

The largest scale of ecological organization is the biosphere: the total sum of ecosystems on the planet.

* The third largest of the country's 60, 000 lakes, Lake Inari in the Lapland province of extreme northern Finland, has a surface area of, a total shore length of, a maximum depth of, some 3, 318 islands, and a total water volume of.

Cayuga is the longest ( 38. 1 miles, 61 km ) and Seneca the largest in total area.

The port of Hamburg is the largest sea-harbour in Germany and ranks # 2 in Europe, # 7 worldwide ( 2004 ), in total container traffic.

Owned by BT Group plc, it was at one time the largest satellite earth station in the world, with more than 25 communications dishes in use and over 60 in total.