It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 24 institutions: 11 senior colleges, seven community colleges, the William E. Macaulay Honors College at CUNY, the doctorate-granting Graduate School and University Center, the City University of New York School of Law, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.

As of 2010, the ELDR is the third largest political party represented in European Union institutions, with 75 Members of the European Parliament and 8 members of the European Commission.

As a free democracy and market economy, the world's largest exporting nation and the world's third-richest economy ( nominal GDP ) ( behind the U. S. and Japan ), Germany shares the interest and institutions of a free and secure world trade.

Lund University () is one of Europe's most prestigious universities and Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, consistently ranked among the world's top 100 universities.

The National Geographic Society ( NGS ), headquartered in Washington, D. C. in the United States, is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world.

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

KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest ( the largest by certain definitions ) institutions of higher education in technology.

However, as Sudan became the world ’ s largest debtor to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund by 1993, its relationship with the international financial institutions soured in the mid-1990s and has yet to be fully rehabilitated.

SU is the largest independent university in the Northwest US, with over 7, 500 students enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs within eight schools, and is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities.

UVic is British Columbia's second largest research university, after UBC, and is one of Canada's top 20 research institutions.

The laboratory is one of the largest science and technology institutions in the world.

According to prestigious Global Capital Markets Survey, which measures readership habits amongst most senior corporate and financial decision makers in the world ’ s largest companies and financial institutions, the Financial Times is considered the most important business read, reaching 33 % of the universe, 6 % more than The Wall Street Journal.

Its universities, alongside public scientific institutions, host some of the largest research centres in France ( in fields such as political science, urban planning or the sociology of organizations ).

Outside EU institutions, the Council of European Municipalities and Regions ( CEMR-CCRE ) is the largest organisation of local and regional government in Europe ; its members are national associations of towns, municipalities and regions from over 35 countries.

The nine largest institutions of the federal university, usually termed the colleges, are Birkbeck, Goldsmiths, King's College London, the London Business School, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, the School of Oriental and African Studies, London School of Economics and Political Science and University College London ( UCL ).

Today it is one of the largest institutions of higher learning in Ohio, with an enrollment of over 19, 000 on the Athens campus and over 28, 000 for all campuses.

JP Morgan Chase, one of the largest financial institutions in the world, has established a branch in Bydgoszcz.

As the largest and one of the oldest Flemish cities in the immediate vicinity of Leuven, with a large palate of cafés, restaurants, cultural institutions and shopping neighbourhoods, the city also attracts people from nearby cities and villages.

With the inclusion of the several new member institutions, it is one of the largest Division II conferences in the country with 16 members.

With nearly 20, 000 students, Boise State has the largest enrollment of higher education institutions in the state of Idaho.

The abbeys of England, Wales and Ireland had been among the greatest landowners and the largest institutions in the kingdoms ; although, by the early 16th century, religious donors increasingly tended to favour parish churches, collegiate churches, university colleges and grammar schools, and these were now the predominant centres for learning and the arts.

Pike County is Kentucky's third largest banking center, with financial institutions and holding companies having more than $ 1 billion in assets.

Gadsden is home to Gadsden State Community College, the second largest of the 27 two-year institutions in the Alabama Community College System.

The oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe is held on the morning of 14 July, on the Champs-Élysées avenue in Paris in front of the President of the Republic, French officials and foreign guests.

This is a popular event in France, broadcast on French TV, and is the oldest and largest regular military parade in Europe.

Indeed, in the largest biological weapons accident known – the anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) in the Soviet Union in 1979, sheep became ill with anthrax as far as 200 kilometers from the release point of the organism from a military facility in the southeastern portion of the city ( known as Compound 19 and still off limits to visitors today, see Sverdlovsk Anthrax leak ).

The Citadelle of Quebec still survives as the largest citadel still in official military operation in North America after more than two hundred years of existence.

The largest military action in the Maritimes during the revolutionary war was the attack on Fort Cumberland ( the renamed Fort Beausejour ) in 1776 by a force of American sympathizers led by Jonathan Eddy.

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 ).

France maintains one of its largest military bases outside France in Djibouti.

Diocletian separated and enlarged the Empire's civil and military services and reorganized the Empire's provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the Empire.

Since military upkeep took the largest portion of the imperial budget, any reforms here would be especially costly.

Following the fall of the Shah of Iran and the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979 – 1980, the West became concerned with ensuring the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf through the Strait of Hormuz, and the US received permission for a $ 400 million expansion of the military facilities on Diego Garcia consisting of two parallel runways, expansive parking aprons for heavy bombers, 20 new anchorages in the lagoon, a deep water pier, port facilities for the largest naval vessels in the US or British fleet, aircraft hangars, maintenance buildings and an air terminal, a fuel storage area, and billeting and messing facilities for thousands of sailors and support personnel.

The official insisted that the establishment of a marine park — the world's largest — would in no way impinge on USG use of the BIOT, including Diego Garcia, for military purposes.

About 80, 000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.

Claims under the law have typically involved health care, military, or other government spending programs, and dominate the list of largest pharmaceutical settlements.

The two countries are also economically interdependent: 8. 8 % of German exports are U. S .- bound and 6. 6 % of German imports originate from the U. S. Other signs of the close ties include the continuing position of German-Americans as the largest ethnic group in the U. S. and the status of Ramstein Air Base ( near Kaiserslautern ) as the largest U. S. military community outside the U. S.

From the time beginning with the incorporation of the Portuguese Empire in 1580 ( lost in 1640 ) until the loss of its American colonies in the 19th century, Spain maintained the largest empire in the world even though it suffered fluctuating military and economic fortunes from the 1640s.

Tiny Honduras soon became the tenth largest recipient of United States assistance aid ; total economic and military aid rose to more than US $ 200 million in 1985 and remained at more than US $ 100 million for the rest of the 1980s.

On 18 February, demonstrators took control of Benghazi, the second largest city in Libya, with some support from police and military units.

The Irish still represent the largest contingent of foreign volunteers to the British military, with more Irishmen serving in British uniforms than Irish ones.

With the world's seventh largest military expenditure, ninth largest economy by nominal rates and third largest by purchasing power parity, India is a regional power, a nascent great power and a potential superpower.

Though India continues to have a military relationship with Russia, Israel has emerged as India's second largest military partner while India has built a strong strategic partnership with the United States.