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

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.

In the first millennium AD, an urban tradition developed in the Khmer region of Cambodia, where Angkor grew into one of the largest cities ( in area ) of the world.

Constantinople was the largest and richest urban center in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea during the late Eastern Roman Empire, mostly as a result of its strategic position commanding the trade routes between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea.

Glace Bay is the second largest urban community in population and was the island's main coal mining centre until its last mine ceased operation in the 1980s.

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.

Grand Casablanca is also the largest urban area in the Maghreb.

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.

During this period it grew to become one of the largest cities in the world and home to an urban culture centered on the notion of a " floating world ".

Nuuk is the largest town-and the capital-with roughly one third of the country's urban population.

The city is the administrative centre of the Central Coast region, which is the third largest urban area in New South Wales after Sydney and Newcastle.

Karachi is the most populous city in the country, one of the world's largest cities in terms of population and also the 10th largest urban agglomeration in the world.

With as high as 7 million by some estimates, the city of Karachi in Pakistan has the largest concentration of urban Pakhtun population in the world, including 50, 000 registered Afghan refugees in the city.

About 88 % of the population is urban, mostly concentrated in the four largest cities, Tripoli, Benghazi, Misrata and Bayda.

It also constitutes the southernmost and the largest urban center of Legnicko-Głogowski Okręg Miedziowy with agglomeration of 448. 617 inhabitants.

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

The largest concentrations of population are in North P ' yŏngan and South P ' yŏngan provinces, in the municipal district of P ' yongyang, and in South Hamgyŏng Province, which includes the Hamhŭng-Hŭngnam urban area.

The largest surrounds Charlottetown Harbour, situated centrally on the island's southern shore, and consists of the capital city Charlottetown, and suburban towns Cornwall and Stratford and a developing urban fringe.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Seoul, by far the largest urban settlement, had a population of about 190, 000 people.

Based on population of total administrative area, Shanghai is the second largest of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China, behind Chongqing, but is generally considered the largest city in China because Chongqing's urban population is much smaller.

Stuttgart's urban area has a population of roughly 1. 8 million, making it Germany's seventh largest.

The eastern area of the North End plays host to the city's largest park, and one of Canada's largest urban parks.

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 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.

The largest metropolitan areas, based on 2007 population, were:

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

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.