`` 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.

Amsterdam has a population of 790, 654 within city limits, an urban population of 1, 209, 419 and a metropolitan population of 2, 289, 762 .< ref >

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 population of the city of Alicante proper was 334, 329, estimated, ranking as the second-largest Valencian city.

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.

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.

Daily conditions of life throughout the country and specifically Luanda ( population approximately 4 million ) mirror the collapse of administrative infrastructure as well as many social institutions.

The main factors defining Armenian foreign policy consist from geopolitical location, decreasing population, economic crisis, and ties with Armenian diaspora throughout the world.

The massacres by Tamurlane massively reduced the Assyrian population throughout Mesopotamia.

Classical Arab music is extremely popular across the population, especially a small number of superstars known throughout the Arab world.

Тhe Aleut people were distributed throughout the Aleutian Islands, the Shumagin Islands, and the far western part of the Alaska Peninsula, with an estimated population of around 25, 000 before contact with Europeans.

Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30 – 60 percent of Europe's population.

Consistently high fertility rates, at five or more children per woman throughout Europe, resulted in high population growth rates and contributed to food shortages.

illegal logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity ( in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries ); soil erosion ; in rural areas, most of the population does not have access to potable water ; declining fish stocks because of illegal fishing and overfishing

Modern-day studies have revealed traces of Taíno DNA in individuals throughout Cuba, although the population was largely destroyed as a culture and civilization after 1550.

The Maritimes also have a black population who are mostly descendants of African American loyalists or refugees from the War of 1812, largely concentrated in Nova Scotia but also in various communities throughout southern New Brunswick, Cape Breton ( where the black population is largely of West Indian descent ), and Prince Edward Island.

The Mi ' kmaq Nation's reserves throughout Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and eastern New Brunswick dominate aboriginal culture in the region, compared to the much smaller population of the Maliseet Nation in western New Brunswick.

During this period, the Japanese population grew to over 100, 000 throughout Micronesia, while the indigenous population was about 40, 000.

Protestant and Catholic troops alike burned and plundered the region and the population was decimated there as it was throughout the German states.

A population of about 200 gray whales stay along the eastern Pacific coast from Canada to California throughout the summer, not making the farther trip to Alaskan waters.

The substantial nearshore industrialization and shipping congestion throughout the migratory corridors of the western gray whale population represent potential threats by increasing the likelihood of exposure to ship strikes, chemical pollution, and general disturbance ( Weller et al.

Berbers, the bulk of Libya's population, have been present throughout the entire history of the country.

Unusually favourable climatic conditions in the first two centuries of Iron Age II brought about an expansion of population, settlements and trade throughout the region.

Some hellbender populations — namely a few in Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee — have historically been noted to be quite abundant, but several anthropogenic maladies have converged on the species such that it has seen serious population decline throughout its range.

Research throughout the range of the hellbender has shown a dramatic decline in population abundance in the majority of locations.

Ireland has, throughout most of its history, had a relatively small population ; until the 19th century this was comparable to other regions of similar area in Europe.

The Industrial Revolution led to a population increase, but the chances of surviving childhood did not improve throughout the Industrial Revolution ( although infant mortality rates were reduced markedly ).

Immigration to the United States is a complex demographic phenomenon that has been a major source of population growth and cultural change throughout much of the history of the United States.

However, a percentage of the indigenous Assyrian population ( known as Ashuriyun by the Arabs ) resisted this process, Assyrian Aramaic language and Church of the East Christianity were still dominant in the north, as late as the 11th and 12th centuries AD.

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.

In the 9th and 10th centuries, Constantinople had a population of between 500, 000 and 800, 000.

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, just the opposite was the case with little to no population concentration in major industrial centres as the predominantly rural resource-dependent Maritime economy continued on the same path as it had since European settlement on the region's shores.

Thus the modern population of Hungary do not feel that they belong in the Western Siberia that the Hungarian Magyars left 12 centuries ago ; and the English descendants of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes do not yearn to reoccupy the plains of Northwest Germany.

Consequently, the 16th and 17th centuries were to witness a succession of armed Druze rebellions against the Ottomans, countered by repeated Ottoman punitive expeditions against the Chouf, in which the Druze population of the area was severely depleted and many villages destroyed.

In the two centuries following 1800, the world's average per capita income increased over tenfold, while the world's population increased over sixfold.

In the ensuing two centuries, the city experienced turbulent periods of Ostrogothic rule, during which the city was often troubled by warfare between the Ostrogoths and the Byzantines, which may have caused the population to fall to as few as 1, 000 people.

Decline in food production, growth of the population, and competition for resources among the great families all led to the gradual decline of Fujiwara power and gave rise to military disturbances in the mid-tenth and eleventh centuries.

Canaan in the Late Bronze Age was a shadow of what it had been centuries earlier: many cities were abandoned, others shrank in size, and the total settled population was probably not much more than a hundred thousand.

However, the majority of expelled Germans had lived in Eastern Europe for many centuries, and the majority of German colonists in Nazi-occupied Poland were Baltic and other East European Germans themselves displaced by the Nazi-Soviet population transfers.

Old Norse-speaking population settled parts of Finland's coastal areas in the 12th to 13th centuries.

Ireland experienced a major population boom in the 18th and early 19th centuries, as did the rest of Europe as a result of the Agricultural and Industrial revolutions, and at the time had comparable population densities to Britain and Europe.

In the two centuries following 1800, the world's average per capita income increased over tenfold, while the world's population increased over sixfold.

By the fifth to 4th centuries BC, the island had grown to an estimated population of over 120, 000 ( two to three times the estimated population in 2005 ), and based on the huge necropoli at the main city of Chios, the asty, it is thought the majority lived in that area.

Malden Island, in the central Pacific, was deserted when first visited by Europeans in 1825, but the unsuspected presence of ruined temples and the remains of other structures found on the island indicate that a population of Polynesians had lived there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.

Numerous giant lemur species vanished with the arrival of human settlers to the island, while others became extinct over the course of the centuries as a growing human population put greater pressures on lemur habitats and, among some populations, increased the rate of lemur hunting for food.

In 1924, the Malden ruins were examined by an archaeologist from the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Kenneth Emory, who concluded that they were the creation of a small Polynesian population which had resided there for perhaps several generations some centuries earlier.

For three centuries Mexico was just another kingdom ( the New Spain ) of the Spanish Empire, during which time its indigenous population fell by more than half and was partially replaced by Spaniards and the now predominant Mestizos or mixture of Indigenous and Spanish populations.

Jews, who had lived in Melilla for centuries, have been leaving the Spanish North African city in more recent years ( from 20 % of the population before World War II to less than 5 % today ).

These new military applications coincided with a population explosion throughout Europe in the 11th-14th centuries which increased the demand for precious metals in order to fill a currency shortage.