JBK has pushed the concept of " regional " heathenry as opposed to national " internet heathenry ", and has formed an active network of " Midwest Tribes " which if organized would be one of the largest organizations in America, regularly drawing attendance of over 200 to their yearly event ( Lighting Across the Plains ).

By far the largest regional market was the Middle East, to which Brazil sold approximately 50 % of its arms from 1977 through 1988.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

India's the largest regional provider of humanitarian and reconstruction aid to Afghanistan.

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.

Japanese investment by 1988 made Australia the single largest source of Japanese regional imports.

The largest regional enterprise operates here, the Tadeusz Sendzimir Steelworks in Nowa Huta, employing 17, 500 people.

In 2002 the government merged the nine largest airlines into three regional groups based in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, respectively: Air China, China Eastern Airlines, and China Southern Airlines, which operate most of China's external flights.

Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

Air traffic is routed through several international and regional airports, the largest of which is Barajas International Airport in Madrid.

There are also local and regional sub-groups, usually called " households ", which are not part of the Society's formal organization, the largest of which is the Mongol Empire-themed Great Dark Horde.

Tours is the largest city in the Centre region of France, although it is not the regional capital, which is the region's second-largest city, Orléans.

Today, the Beaton Institute is the second largest public archive in Nova Scotia and operates as a regional archive for Cape Breton Island.

It is the fifth largest regional air cargo centre in the UK.

However, it is also the largest city in France that is not a regional capital ; the much larger Marseille is its regional capital.

In the early 2000s, the leftist Green Party won the largest number of votes to nearly carry a majority in regional and local representation.

Philadelphia's largest park, Fairmount Park, encompasses of this parkland and includes 63 neighborhood and regional parks.

In Canada, the largest such chain is Loblaw, which operates stores under a variety of regional names, including Fortinos, Zehrs and the largest, Loblaws, ( named after the company itself ).

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.

* 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the 10 largest U. S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in 5 years and ceases all operations.

Germany's largest airline is former national carrier Lufthansa that was privatised in the 1990s.

Air Berlin became second largest airline in recent years by absorbing LTU and dba.

Domestic flights: are available through Sunrise Airways which is Haiti's largest airline for the general public offering scheduled, as well as, charter flights.

* 2008 – Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.

The state-owned Adria Airways is the largest Slovenian airline.

Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (), formerly Ülemiste Airport is the largest airport in Estonia and home base of the national airline Estonian Air.

* December 9 – United Airlines, the second largest airline in the world, files for bankruptcy.

* Iberia ( airline ), largest Spanish airline and flag carrier of Spain.

It represents one of the three international airports of Sardinia and the base of the Sardinian airline Meridiana, Italy ’ s third largest airline.

Memphis International Airport is the global " SuperHub " of FedEx Express, the world's largest airline in terms of freight tons flown, and has the second largest cargo operations by volume of any airport worldwide, surpassed only by Hong Kong's international airport.

Advertised in 1918 as the largest aircraft company in the world, Airco established the first airline in the United Kingdom, Aircraft Transport and Travel Limited, as a subsidiary.

Naturally the airline tries to maximize the number of seats available in every aircraft to carry the largest possible ( and therefore most profitable ) number of passengers.

Stansted is a hub for a number of major European low-cost carriers, being the largest base for low-cost giant Ryanair with over 100 destinations served by the airline.

AXA is one of the world's largest insurance companies ; Air France is the world's largest airline company in incomes ; L ' Oreal is the world's largest cosmetic company ; LVMH and PPR are the world's largest and second-largest luxury product companies respectively ; GDF-Suez is the world's largest energy company ; EDF is the world's largest utility company ; Areva is a large nuclear-energy company ; Veolia Environnement is the world's largest environmental services and water management company ; VINCI, Bouygues and Eiffage are respectively world's 1st, 2nd and 4th building and public work companies ; Michelin is the world's pneumatic leader ; Lafarge is the world's largest cement company ; JCDecaux is the world's largest outdoor advertising corporation ; BNP Paribas, Credit Agricole and Societe Generale are respectively the world's 1st, 6th and 8th biggest banks in assets in 2010 ;

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

The University of Gothenburg is the third-oldest Swedish university, and with 24, 900 full-time students it is also among the largest universities in the Nordic countries.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

* 1944 – World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic Countries, begins.

* Barlex One of the largest Nordic producers of malt extract and malt syrup

Internationally, the Left Party. PDS was a co-founder of the Party of the European Left alliance of parties and was the largest party in the European United Left – Nordic Green Left group in the European Parliament.

* Stockholm Pride is the largest Pride event in the Nordic countries and takes place in the last week of July every year.

TeliaSonera is now the largest Nordic and Baltic fixed-voice, broadband, and mobile operator by revenue and customer base.

It is also the one of largest providers of distance education courses in the Nordic countries.

* June 25 – WWII: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala ( the largest battle ever in the Nordic countries ) begins between Finnish and Soviet troops.

Later the D5s were used to set up the first and largest bank terminal system for the Nordic banks, a system which was partly in use until the late 1980s.

Originally built for the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, the airport served 14, 865, 871 passengers in 2011 and it is the fourth largest airport in the Nordic countries.

It is the largest airport in Sweden, and the third largest airport in the Nordic countries, and the second busiest in terms of international passengers.

Statoil is the largest petroleum company in the Nordic countries and Norway's largest company, employing over 25, 000 people.

Helsingin Sanomat is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma.

This method is used by, among others, the Nordic Optical Telescope, the New Technology Telescope, the Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and the Keck telescopes, as well as all of the largest telescopes built in the last decade.

In foreign policy, he initially sought an alliance of Nordic countries, but without success, instead maintaining strict neutrality while building up among the most impressive armed forces in the world ( surpassed only by the United States, the Soviet Union and Israel in terms of per-capita spending ), making the Swedish Air Force the third largest in the world, while ultimately rejecting nuclear capability, signing the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in 1968.

The Nordic Choir has also appeared throughout the United States, performing in well-known concert halls as Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. Additionally, Luther College has the largest collegiate choral program in the United States with almost 600 student singers.

It is the largest department store in the Nordic countries.

It is the largest library in the Nordic countries.

Nordischer Klang introduces the cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to the German public and is the largest festival of Nordic culture outside of the Nordic countries.