`` It's a whole lot easier '', he said, `` to increase the population of Nevada, than it is to increase the population of New York city ''.

Of course, this isn't taking into consideration the population of Nevada and New York city, but it's the way things look from here at this point.

The trends have been in evidence for many years -- population shifts to the Southwest and Far West, and from city to suburbs.

Only a radical change in the nature of the population in the central city would be likely to destroy this preference -- and we must now turn our attention to the question of whether such a change, gloomily foreseen by so many urban diagnosticians, is actually upon us.

The largest city by population is Birmingham.

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Warfare between city states had led to a population decline, from which Akkad provided a temporary respite.

The civilian population of the city dropped to near zero during the eight-years Iran – Iraq War. As of the 1986 census due to the war the population dropped to only 6 people.

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

In 1851, Ann Arbor was chartered as a city, though the city showed a drop in population during the Depression of 1873.

The city is the headquarters of the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market and a sizeable population of European public workers live here.

The population of Aarau grew continuously from 1800 until about 1960, when the city reached a peak population of 17, 045, more than five times its population in 1800.

There are three reasons for this population loss: firstly, since the completion of Telli ( a large apartment complex ), the city has not had any more considerable land developments.

The population of the city throughout the centuries maintained an oral tradition that had originally been Roman.

Ajmer has a population of around 551, 360 in its urban agglomeration and 542, 580 for the city ( 2011 census ), and is located west of Jaipur, the state capital, 274 km from Udaipur, 439 km from Jaisalmer, and 391 km from Delhi.

The population of Ajmer city according census 2011 is 5, 42, 580 positioning Ajmer in top 100 major cities of India and 5th in Rajasthan.

The official population of Alicante in 2011 was 334, 329 inhabitants and 771, 061 in the metropolitan area " Alicante-Elche ".

According to the 2009 population data, Alicante ranks as the 4th most populous province in Spain ( after Madrid, Barcelona, and Valencia ), with 1, 917, 012 inhabitants.

Banyeres de Mariola (, ) is a settlement in the north of the province of Alicante ( Spain ), 860 metres above sea level, with a population of 7, 500.

Torrevieja lies about 30 miles south of the city of Alicante and has a population of 104, 000 ( 2008 ).

The new town of Gran Alacant, north of Santa Pola along the Alicante bay, accounts for about one third of the population of the district.

Parcent has a population of about 1100 and is about one hour's drive north of the city of Alicante, and about an hour's drive south of the city of Valencia.

However 1. 4 billion people still live without clean drinking water and 2. 6 billion of the world ’ s population lack access to proper sanitation.

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 population of Gary proper was 80, 294 at the time of the 2010 census, making it the seventh-largest city in the state of Indiana.

Furthermore Chinese population were largely unable to learn English due to the lack of proper educational facilities in pre-1970 Hong Kong.

The city proper has a population of 69, 074 ( 2011 ).

While 680, 000 people lived in the city proper in 1950, a combination of suburbanization and economic turbulence caused a sharp decrease in city population to just 330, 000 in the year 2000.

Shanghai is the largest city by population in the People's Republic of China ( PRC ) and the largest city proper by population in the world.

In 2011 the city proper had a population of 70, 063, and the population of the Saint John Metro region is currently 127, 761.

In some cities such as Miami and San Francisco, the main city is much smaller than the surrounding suburban areas, leaving the city proper with a small portion of the metro area's population and land area.

As of the 2010 census, the city proper had a population of 287, 128.

Its population is estimated at 1, 708, 491 residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2, 666, 278 residents, making Warsaw the 9th most populous city proper in the European Union.

The basic administrative division proper has a population of about 1. 3 million, while its urban area is the 5th largest in EU and the largest in Italy with an estimated population of approximately 5. 2 million.

The city proper has a population of 1, 324, 110 inhabitants as of December 2010.

Thereafter, during the following 30 years, almost one third of the population moved to the outer belt of new suburbs and satellite settlements that grew around the city proper.

The urban area extends beyond the limits of Bucharest proper and has a population of 1. 93 million people.

In the 2005 national census, the population of the city of Granada proper was 236, 982, and the population of the entire urban area was estimated to be 472, 638, ranking as the 13th-largest urban area of Spain.

The New York City Metropolitan Area contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, enumerating 682, 265 individuals as of the 2010 United States Census, including at least 8 Chinatowns-six in New York City proper, and one each in Edison, New Jersey and Nassau County, Long Island, not to mention fledgling ethnic Chinese enclaves emerging throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

This was quickly reversed at the war's end, but 280, 000 Serbs ( out of a population of about 350, 000 ) were in turn forced to flee into Serbia proper, unlike Albanians, most Serbs never returned.

In the Caucasian region of the former Soviet Union the phenomenon of population transfer along ethnic lines has affected many thousands of individuals in Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan proper ; from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Georgia proper ; as well as from Chechnya and adjacent areas within Russia.