The scene, of course, should be nine miles northwest of Centralia, Illinois, the geographical center of population according to the census.

Earlier than 900 CE progressing past the 13th century, the population complexes were a major center of culture for the Ancient Pueblo Peoples.

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century ; the city's economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main rail hub and economic center of Germany.

Although only half the size and population of West Berlin, East Berlin included most of the historic center of the city.

The relatively small central area dominates in terms of population and agricultural resources, and is the cultural and political center from which Chile expanded in the late 19th century when it incorporated its northern and southern regions.

Connecticut's center of population is in Cheshire, New Haven County, which is also located within the Tri-State area.

As a Polonia center, due to the city's having a very large Polish population, Chicago celebrates every Labor Day weekend at the Taste of Polonia Festival in the Jefferson Park area.

The center of population of Delaware is located in New Castle County, in the town of Townsend.

Home to a diverse population hailing from across the Japanese archipelago the island witnessed the birth of a unique culture with the drum at the center of it all.

With its administrative center at the town of Gilgit, the Northern Areas cover an area of 72, 971 km² ( 28, 174 mi² ) and have an estimated population approaching 1, 000, 000.

It is sometimes referred to colloquially as the Heart of America as it is near both the population center of the United States and the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states.

The voivodeships with a majority ethnic Lithuanian population were Vilnius, Trakai and Samogitian voivodeships, and these three voivodeships comprised the political center of the state.

The mean center of United States population as of the 2010 Census is at the town of Plato in Texas County, Missouri.

Long an important trading center in the Persian Gulf, Manama is home to a very diverse population.

The center of population of New Mexico is located in Torrance County, in the town of Manzano.

Nazareth is known as " the Arab capital of Israel "; the population is made up predominantly of Arab citizens of Israel, almost all of whom are either Muslim ( 69 %) or Christian ( 30. 9 %).< ref >< p > In the New Testament, the city is described as the childhood home of Jesus, and as such is a center of Christian pilgrimage, with many shrines commemorating biblical events.

The Muslim population has grown, for a number of historical factors, that include the city having served as administrative center under British rule, and the influx of internally displaced Palestinians absorbed into the city from neighbouring towns during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Moldova adopted the Romanian flag during the declaration of independence from the USSR in 1991 ( and was used in various demonstrations and revolts by the population ) and later the Moldovan coat of arms ( which is part of the Romanian coat of arms ) was placed in the center of the flag.

Doha is the capital of the country and the major administrative, commercial, and population center.

The spill had a severe impact on the coastal area surrounding Madinat ' al-Jubayl as Sinaiyah, the major industrial and population center newly planned and built by the Saudi government.

The centroid near Dayton is particularly important because it is closest to the population center of the US and Canada.

( Although along the southern coastline they account for 21 % of the population ), Kotokoli or Tem and Tchamba in the center, Kabye people in the north ( 22 %).

The San Francisco General Hospital campus cares for the indigent population of San Francisco and contains San Francisco's only Level I trauma center.

Another important center of population was Nova Scotia, for example Africville and other villages near Halifax, see Black Nova Scotians.

The population can thereby replenish itself and actually grow larger.

Swift presents the dire state of Ireland and shows that mere population itself, in Ireland ’ s case, did not always mean greater wealth and economy.

* 1968 – Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.

By the 7th century BC, much of the Assyrian population used Akkadian influenced Eastern Aramaic and not Akkadian itself.

The albinistic are generally as healthy as the rest of the population ( but see related disorders below ), with growth and development occurring as normal, and albinism by itself does not cause mortality, although the lack of pigment blocking ultraviolet radiation increases the risk of skin cancer and other problems.

The city itself has a population of 15, 800 inhabitants.

The place had been transformed on a voluntary basis by the population of Paris itself, in what was recalled as the Journée des brouettes (" Wheelbarrow Day ").

The population value of bees depends partly on the individual efficiency of the bees, but also on the population itself.

In the face of armed revolt of Jewish militant groups and increasing violence of the local Arab population, Britain had found itself unable to control events.

He blamed the Berlin government and the civilian population for the armistice / surrender of November 1918, saying they had failed to support him, had let him down, and had proved itself unworthy of the traditions of a fighting nation.

It subsequently came to be used to refer to the historical movements of the dispersed ethnic population of Israel, to the cultural development of that population or to the population itself.

In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement ; that is, the population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point, if the " homeland " still exists in any meaningful sense.

The first years of the DPP as the ruling party drew accusations from the opposition that, as a self-styled Taiwanese nationalist party, the DPP was itself inadequately sensitive to the ethnographic diversity of Taiwan's population.

Hoy describes Levinas's account as " not the attempt to use power against itself, or to mobilize sectors of the population to exert their political power ; the ethical resistance is instead the resistance of the powerless "( 2004, p. 8 ).

The indigenous population has established itself as a significant force in Ecuadorian politics, as shown by the selection of indigenous representative Nina Pacari, who led the indigenous political party, Pachakutik, as second vice president of the 1969 Congress.

Gdańsk itself has a population of 455, 830 ( June 2010 ), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.

At the same time a large Sephardi Jewish emigrant community from the Iberian peninsula established itself in Thessaloniki, while there were population movements of Arvanites and Vlachs, who established communities in several parts of the Greek peninsula.

While the Kingdom of Prussia contained most of the population and most of the territory of the Reich, the Prussian leadership became supplanted by German leaders and Prussia itself played a lesser role.

McNutt says, " It is probably safe to assume that sometime during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '", differentiating itself from the Canaanites through such markers as the prohibition of intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.

" This " Israel " was a cultural and probably political entity of the central highlands, well enough established to be perceived by the Egyptians as a possible challenge to their hegemony, but an ethnic group rather than an organised state ; Archaeologist Paula McNutt says: " It is probably ... during Iron Age I a population began to identify itself as ' Israelite '," differentiating itself from its neighbours via prohibitions on intermarriage, an emphasis on family history and genealogy, and religion.