Bonn is located in the very south of the largest metropolitan area in Germany.

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.

The capital of British Columbia is Victoria, the 15th largest metropolitan region in Canada, named for Canada's Queen at Confederation.

The largest city is Vancouver, the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada, the largest in Western Canada, and the second largest in the Pacific Northwest.

Cairo ( ;, literally " The Vanquisher " or " The Conqueror "), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and its metropolitan area is the 16th largest in the world.

With an additional ten million inhabitants just outside the city, Cairo resides at the centre of the largest metropolitan area in Africa and the Arab World as well as the tenth-largest urban area in the world.

At the 2010 census, the population was 141, 527 ; the Dayton metropolitan area had 841, 502 residents, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ohio and the 61st largest in the United States.

With a population close to 2. 3 million ( metropolitan region over 3. 4 million ), Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil.

The official metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabekjur ( a name formed by combining the initial syllables of Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, Tangerang and Bekasi with the final syllable of Cianjur ), is the second largest in the world, yet the metropolis's suburbs still continue beyond it.

Kansas City, Missouri ( informally abbreviated KC ) is the largest city in the US state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri.

A native of the Rhône département's Urban Community of Lyon, France's second largest metropolitan area, Marcel-Auguste Ferréol was born in Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, one of the city's suburbs, and adopted his nom de plume at the start of his writing career in the early 1920s.

Barcelona, the largest metropolitan area on the Mediterranean Sea.

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 2010 population of the entire 13-county Nashville metropolitan area was 1, 589, 934, making it the largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state.

Nashville has the largest metropolitan area in the state of Tennessee, spanning 13 counties and,, had a population of 1, 582, 264.

Image: Allegheny Monongahela Ohio. jpg | The Allegheny River ( left ) and Monongahela River ( right ) join to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania — the largest metropolitan area on the river.

Its metropolitan area is one of largest population centres in Europe, with more than 12 million inhabitants.

The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German ( 19. 7 %), Irish ( 15. 8 %), Italian ( 11. 8 %), Polish ( 8. 4 %), and English ( 4. 6 %), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22 % German, and 16 % Italian, and 12 % Irish.

The largest of these level areas, the Great Karoo, is a dry, barren region, and a large tract of the plateau proper is of a still more arid character and is known as the Kalahari Desert.

As the largest and most spectacular forest antelope, the western / lowland bongo is both an important flagship species for protected areas such as national parks, and a major trophy species which has been taken in increasing numbers in Central Africa by sport hunters during the 1990s.

Ballochbuie is also protected as a Special Area of Conservation by the EU Habitats Directive, as " one of the largest remaining continuous areas of native Caledonian Forest ".

The sub-zones are ( clockwise from the north ): the Colli Fiorentini which is located south of the city of Florence ; Chianti Rufina in the northeastern part of the zone located around the commune of Rufina ; Classico in the centre of Chianti, across the provinces of Florence and Siena ; Colli Aretini in the Arezzo province to the east ; Colli Senesi south of Chianti Classico in the Siena hills, which is the largest of the sub-zones and includes the Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano areas ; Colline Pisane, the westernmost sub-zone in the province of Pisa ; Montespertoli located within the Colli Fiorentini around the commune of Montespertoli ; Montalbano in the north-west part of the zone which includes the Carmignano DOCG.

Production in 1991 dropped 92 % from the previous year, as a presidential decree suspended mining operations at the largest mine, in response to increasing fears of deforestation, although reforestation of mined areas was in progress.

In reality, Mount Isa is the second largest city in Australia ; there are several cities around the world with larger incorporated areas.

The Great Victoria is the largest desert in Australia and consists of many small sandhills, grassland plains, areas with a closely packed surface of pebbles ( called desert pavement or gibber plains ) and salt lakes.

The partnership brought vast Lithuania-controlled Rus ' areas into Poland's sphere of influence and proved beneficial for the Poles and Lithuanians, who coexisted and cooperated in one of the largest political entities in Europe for the next four centuries.

The largest resistance group, the National Liberation Front ( EAM ), was controlled by the Communists, as was ( Elas ) led by Aris Velouchiotis and a civil war soon broke out between it and non-Communist groups such as the National Republican Greek League ( EDES ) in those areas liberated from the Germans.

The history of Kazakhstan describes the human past in the Eurasia's largest segment of the steppe belt that was the home and crossroads for numerous human groups starting with extinct Pithecanthropus and Sinanthropus 1 mln – 800, 000 in the Karatau Mountains, Caspian and Balkhash areas ; Neanderthals 140 – 40 thousand years ago in the Karatau Mountains and Central Kazakhstan, and the arrival of the modern Homo Sapiens 40 – 12 thousand years ago in the Southern, Central, and Eastern Kazakhstan.

The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia.

* The largest expenditure for Nevis, approximately 29 percent of the Nevis Island Administration's recurrent budget, is education and health services, but the Nevis Island Legislature has no power to legislate over these two areas.

These areas were mainly agricultural, with the exception of Upper Silesia which was the second largest centre of German heavy industry.

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

One of the largest application areas is thin films and coatings, which can be produced on a piece of substrate by spin coating or dip coating.

It is these areas west of the Carpathians that contain the highest concentrations of the nation's largest ethnic minorities -- Hungarians, Germans, and Serbs.

Although the provisions pertain to all areas of law, the largest part is dedicated to private law and civil procedure.

Saudi Arabian Oil Company ( Saudi Aramco ) technicians have determined that very deep aquifers lie in many areas of northern and eastern Arabia and that the Wasia, the largest aquifer in Saudi Arabia, contains more water than the Persian Gulf.

The world's largest oil spill, estimated at as much as, fouled gulf waters and the coastal areas of Kuwait, Iran, and much of Saudi Arabia's Persian Gulf shoreline.

Nature conservation planning for Saaremaa now includes protection of the largest and most unusual alvar areas.

The largest urban areas in Sumatra by population, based on 2010 census, are:

The majority of recent population growth in Canada's three largest metropolitan areas ( Greater Toronto, Greater Montreal, and Greater Vancouver ) has occurred in non-core municipalities, although this trend has already reversed itself in Toronto, where a building boom has begun to take place.

In Malaysia, suburbs are common, especially in areas surrounding the Klang Valley, which is the largest conurbation in the country.

The desert is underlain by the Great Artesian Basin, one of the largest inland drainage areas in the world.