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 largest city by population is Birmingham.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

The largest religious denomination is Roman Catholicism, to which adheres about half the population.

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

Rovaniemi ( in Finland ), which lies slightly south of the line, has a population of approximately 58, 000, and is the largest settlement in the immediate vicinity of the Arctic Circle.

With a population of about 30 million, it has an area of, making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world.

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

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

Interview Island ( the largest wildlife sanctuary in the territory ) in Middle Andaman holds a population of feral elephants, which were brought in for forest work by a timber company and released when the company went bankrupt.

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

After World War II, this formerly agrarian region saw striking growth and became the district with the largest and densest population in the Canton ( 110, 000 in 1990, 715 persons per km2 ).

The population at the 2001 census was 31, 705 ( ranked 13th largest in Wales ).

It is the largest town in the Vale of Leven, the others being Balloch, Renton, Jamestown and Bonhill ; their combined population is over 20, 000.

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.

The Ottoman tax record and census from 1596 indicates that Bethlehem had a population of 1, 435, making it the 13th largest village in Palestine at the time.

Barcelona (,, ) is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, after Madrid, with a population of 1, 621, 537 within its administrative limits on a land area of.

Before whaling, the largest population was in the Antarctic, numbering approximately 239, 000 ( range 202, 000 to 311, 000 ).

Christianity represents about a third of the world's population and is the world's largest religion.

With more than 1. 1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.

Among the early Old World cities, Mohenjo-daro of the Indus Valley Civilization in present-day Pakistan, existing from about 2600 BC, was one of the largest, with a population of 50, 000 or more.

Keith Hopkins estimates that ancient Rome had a population of about a million people by the end of the 1st century BC, after growing continually during the 3rd, 2nd, and 1st centuries BC, making it the largest city in the world at the time.

While David Kessler and Peter Temin consider ancient Rome to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first to have exceeded a population of over 1 million, George Modelski considers medieval Baghdad, with an estimated population of 1. 2 million at its peak, to be the largest city before 19th century London and the first with a population of over one million.

Understanding the formation and evolution of the largest and earliest structures ( i. e., quasars, galaxies, clusters and superclusters ) is one of the largest efforts in cosmology.

Galaxy groups and clusters are the largest known gravitationally bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation.

In models for the gravitational formation of structure with cold dark matter, the smallest structures collapse first and eventually build the largest structures, clusters of galaxies.

The largest clusters can have 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > solar masses, with the massive cluster Westerlund 1 being estimated at 5 × 10 < sup > 4 </ sup > solar masses ; close to that of a globular cluster.

Superclusters are large groups of smaller galaxy groups and clusters and are among the largest known structures of the cosmos.

* 1. 6 Em — 172 ± 12. 5 light years — Diameter of Omega Centauri ( one of the largest known globular clusters, perhaps containing over a million stars )< ref > distance × sin ( diameter_angle ), using distance of 5kpc ( 15. 8 ± 1. 1 kly ) and angle 36. 3 ', = 172 ± 12. 5 ly.

The Silk Road gave rise to the clusters of military states of nomadic origins in North China, invited the Nestorian, Manichaean, Buddhist, and later Islamic religions into Central Asia and China, created the influential Khazar Federation and at the end of its glory, brought about the largest continental empire ever: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers strung along the Silk Road ( Beijing in North China, Karakorum in central Mongolia, Sarmakhand in Transoxiana, Tabriz in Northern Iran, Sarai and Astrakhan in lower Volga, Solkhat in Crimea, Kazan in Central Russia, Erzurum in eastern Anatolia ), realizing the political unification of zones previously loosely and intermittently connected by material and cultural goods.

* Supercluster, the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe, composed of many galaxy clusters

Galaxy clusters are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of hundreds of galaxies bound by gravity.

Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora, are home to one of the largest maquiladora clusters.

The two largest clusters of grand ceremonial architecture are nicknamed " Tula Grande " ( the most visited by tourists ) and " Tula Chico ".

* 1. 6 Em — 172 ± 12. 5 light years — Diameter of Omega Centauri ( one of the largest known globular clusters, perhaps containing over a million stars )< ref > distance × sin ( diameter_angle ), using distance of 5 kpc ( 15. 8 ± 1. 1 kly ) and angle 36. 3 ', = 172 ± 12. 5 ly.

Saitobaru kofungun is a collection of 9 clusters of tumuli comprising 311 burial mounds which lay on a plateau roughly 4 by 2 km in size, making it one of the largest collections of burial mounds in Japan.

One way of clustering a set of data points in a metric space into two clusters is to choose the clusters in such a way as to minimize the sum of the diameters of the clusters, where the diameter of any single cluster is the largest distance between any two of its points ; this is preferable to minimizing the maximum cluster size, which may lead to very similar points being assigned to different clusters.

Central has over fifty-five academic staff and a wide range of visiting lecturers and artists, making it one of the largest clusters of drama, theatre and performance specialists in Europe.

On the stalk flowers and seeds are produced in clusters on branched stems, with the largest cluster being found at the apex.

Dublin has the largest number of stations, and there are significant clusters in north and west Connaught and mid-Munster.

The report went on to outline a manned exploration program using these rockets as they became available ; using existing ICBMs a small four-man space station could be operational 1961, the clusters would support a manned lunar landing in 1965-1966 and a larger 50-man space station by 1967, while the largest of the rockets would support large moon expeditions in 1972, set up a permanent moon base in 1973-1974, and launch manned interplanetary trips in 1977.

Its 15, 372 residential units, in 35 high rise buildings and seven clusters of townhouses, make it the largest single residential development in the United States.

It was discovered by Jean-Dominique Maraldi in 1746 and is one of the largest known globular clusters.