Several of Canada's largest companies are based in natural resource industries, such as EnCana, Cameco, Goldcorp, and Barrick Gold.

For instance one of Canada's largest manufacturing industries is the pulp and paper sector, which is directly linked to the logging industry.

* the Sydney Coal Field in the southeastern part of the island along the Atlantic Ocean drove the Industrial Cape Breton economy throughout the 19th and 20th centuries — until after World War II its industries were the largest private employers in Canada

Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University.

The largest industries are electronics ( 21. 6 percent ), machinery, vehicles and other engineered metal products ( 21. 1 percent ), forest industry ( 13. 1 percent ), and chemicals ( 10. 9 percent ).

Japan has one of the oldest and largest film industries in the world – as of 2010 the fourth largest by number of feature films produced.

Natural monopolies arise where the largest supplier in an industry, often the first supplier in a market, has an overwhelming cost advantage over other actual or potential competitors ; this tends to be the case in industries where fixed costs predominate, creating economies of scale that are large in relation to the size of the market, as is the case in water and electricity services.

The three major employers of career physicists are academic institutions, government laboratories, and private industries, with the largest employer being the last.

The Persian Gulf and its coastal areas are the world's largest single source of crude oil, and related industries dominate the region.

The three largest service industries are financial services, retail, and real estate.

The Industrial Technology Research Institute ( ITRI ), headquartered within the park, is the largest nonprofit research organization in Taiwan and has worked to develop applied technological research for industry, including for many of Taiwan's traditional industries ( such as textiles ).

By 1931, the city had 195, 000 inhabitants, making it the fifth largest city in Poland with varied industries, such as Elektrit, a factory that produced radio receivers.

The partition also divided the natural resources, industries, economic infrastructure, and manpower, with India greatly benefited being the largest share owner.

The largest producers of cotton, currently ( 2009 ), are China and India, with annual production of about 34 million bales and 24 million bales, respectively ; most of this production is consumed by their respective textile industries.

Zakopane became a center for the region's mining and metallurgy industries ; in the 19th century, it was the largest center for metallurgy in Galicia.

Throughout the 19th century, Philadelphia had a variety of industries and businesses, the largest being textiles.

The first two digits designate the largest business sector, the third digit designates the subsector, the fourth digit designates the industry group, and the fifth digit designates particular industries.

Agriculture and traditional heavy manufacturing have suffered relative decline compared to services and oil-related industries, and the public sector is among the largest in the world as a percentage of the overall gross domestic product.

Oil, natural gas, petroleum products and related industries are the largest sector of the local economy.

Power-intensive industries, which are the largest components of the manufacturing sector, produce mainly for export.

The largest petrochemical industries are located in the USA and Western Europe ; however, major growth in new production capacity is in the Middle East and Asia.

Before the start of World War II, the largest industries in Brevard were commercial fishing, citrus, and tourism.

Peru is one of the largest producers of gold, silver, and zinc in Latin America, and some critics complain about the priority the Peruvian government gives to mining as opposed to industries like fishing and agriculture, with which indigenous peoples are more familiar.

The largest, the Huron Business Park, is home to a number of industries, from seat manufacturers to furniture components.

There are eight states in which the largest urban vote can be the balance of power in any close election.

Coconuts, the fruit of the coconut palm, have the largest of all known seeds and are grown in South Pacific islands as a crop for domestic and export markets.

You are now facing the Pantheon, the largest and best-preserved building still standing from the days of ancient Rome.

The largest and most complex marine forms are called seaweeds.

The largest South Atlantic basins are the Angola, Cape, Argentina, and Brazil basins.

The three largest communities above the Arctic Circle are situated in Russia: Murmansk ( population 325, 100 ), Norilsk ( 135, 000 ), and Vorkuta ( 85, 000 ).

The order Asterales currently includes eleven families, the largest of which are the Asteraceae, with about 25, 000 species, and the Campanulaceae (" Bellflowers "), with about 2, 000 species.

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

Kurdish, with 15 %, constitute a major community in southeastern Anatolia, and are the largest ethnic minority.

* The oldest and largest is the Brahmic family of India and Southeast Asia, in which vowels are marked with diacritics and syllable-final consonants, when they occur, are indicated with ligatures, diacritics, or with a special vowel-canceling mark.

The largest applications for metallic antimony are as alloying material for lead and tin and for lead antimony plates in lead-acid batteries.

The five largest modern countries that are mainly archipelagos are Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

The largest genera are Allium ( 260-690 species ), Nothoscordum ( 25 ), and Tulbaghia ( 22 ).

The largest roads, constructed at the same time as many of the great house sites ( between 1000 and 1125 CE ), are: the Great North Road, the South Road, the Coyote Canyon Road, the Chacra Face Road, Ahshislepah Road, Mexican Springs Road, the West Road and the shorter Pintado-Chaco Road.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

Only small, isolated sections are left standing with the largest portion lying in a pile of rubble that stretches the length of where the aqueducts once stood.

The largest species are red alder ( A. rubra ) on the west coast of North America, and black alder ( A. glutinosa ), native to most of Europe and widely introduced elsewhere, both reaching over 30 m. By contrast, the widespread Alnus viridis ( green alder ) is rarely more than a 5 m tall shrub.

The North Kuril Ainu of Zaporozhye are currently the largest Ainu subgroup in Russia.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

The largest population clusters of North America ( the Boston – Washington, San Francisco-San Diego, Chicago – Pittsburgh, and Quebec City – Windsor Corridors ) are all thousands of kilometers away from Alberta.

According to Alberta Venture magazine's list of the 50 largest employers in the province, the largest employers are:

ASU's faculty and students are served by two dedicated general-topic libraries: Hayden Library, which is the largest of the ASU libraries and is located on the Tempe campus, and Fletcher Library, located on the west campus.