Mr. Speaker, for several years now the commuter railroads serving our large metropolitan areas have found it increasingly difficult to render the kind of service our expanding population wants and is entitled to have.

The Nassau system recognizes that its major task it to broaden reference service, what with the constant expansion of education and knowledge, and the pressure of population growth in a metropolitan area.

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 >

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

The population of the metropolitan area ( including Elche and satellite towns ) was 771, 061 estimates, ranking as the eighth-largest metropolitan area of Spain.

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

According to the Turkish Statistical Institute, as of 2011 the city of Bursa had a population of 1, 704, 441 and its metropolitan municipality 1, 948, 744.

The Bordeaux metropolitan area has a population of 1, 105, 000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France.

Copenhagen ( or ; ) is the capital of Denmark and its most populous city, with an urban population of 1, 213, 822 () and a metropolitan population of 1, 937, 611 ().

Much of southern and western Connecticut ( along with the majority of the state's population ) is part of the New York metropolitan area ; three of Connecticut's eight counties are statistically included in the New York City combined statistical area, the same area is widely referred to as the Tri-State area.

Nova Scotia has a growing metropolitan area surrounding Halifax, but a contracting population in industrial Cape Breton, and several smaller centres in Bridgewater, Kentville, Yarmouth, and Pictou County.

At the 2010 census, the population was 141, 527 ; the Dayton metropolitan area had 841, 502 residents, making it the fourth largest metropolitan area in Ohio and the 61st largest in the United States.

In 2010, Erfurt had a population of over 200, 000 and is part of the Erfurt-Weimar-Jena metropolitan area with a population of about 500, 000.

With a population close to 2. 3 million ( metropolitan region over 3. 4 million ), Fortaleza is the 5th largest city in Brazil.

As of the 2002 census, the metropolitan area had a population of 2. 3 million.

The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay ( of the Baltic Sea ), in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity ( Trójmiasto ), with a population near 740, 000.

The metropolitan area, including the outer commuter zone, covers an area of and has a total population of 594, 582 as of 1 January 2008, which ranks it as the fourth most populous in Belgium.

Located in Kashubia in Eastern Pomerania, Gdynia is part of a conurbation with the spa town of Sopot, the city of Gdańsk and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the Tricity ( Trójmiasto ), with a population of over a million people.

Gosford is considered an exurb of the Sydney metropolitan area, with a significant proportion of the population commuting for work or study.

Regardless of rights and wrongs, a population and an area appropriate to a pre-World-War- 1 great power have been, following conquest, ruled against their will by a neighboring people, and have had imposed upon them social and economic controls they dislike.

A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade.

With a population of about 30 million, it has an area of, making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world.

The largest archipelagic state in the world, by area and population, is Indonesia.

The large and diverse population of antibodies is generated by random combinations of a set of gene segments that encode different antigen binding sites ( or paratopes ), followed by random mutations in this area of the antibody gene, which create further diversity.

Thirdly, population growth was absorbed by neighboring municipalities in the regional urban area, and numerous citizens of Aarau moved into the countryside.

It had an area of 771 mile² ( 1997 km² ), and a population of 78, 236 in 1901.

By the late 1960s, the area of LAFTA had a population of 220 million and produced about $ 90 billion of goods and services annually.

The municipality has a total population of 55, 269 inhabitants and a total area of 408. 1 km².

The town has a population of 35, 203 according to the 2001 census and the urban area has a population of over 70, 000.

At this point in time, the area that is currently Afghanistan had a multi-religious population consisting of Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Jews, and others.

The Arabs were unable to succeed in converting the population because of constant revolts from the mountain tribes in the Afghan area.

The Arabs were unable to succeed in converting the population of that area because of constant revolts from the mountain tribes.

Aveiro ( or ) is a city in Aveiro Municipality in Portugal, with a total area of 199. 9 km², a total population of 78, 463 inhabitants, and 61, 430 electors ( 2006 ).

The Latin name for that settlement, " Bonna ", may stem from the original population of this and many other settlements in the area, the Eburoni.

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.

Additional suburbs soon developed and increased the area and population of Berlin.

The novel is believed to be based on the cholera epidemic that killed a large percentage of Oran's population in 1849 following French colonization, but the novel is placed in the 1940s.

The different attitudes of the characters reflect different attitudes in the French population during the occupation.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

In particular, British ships cut Malta off from France, aided by the rebellion among the native Maltese population that forced the French garrison to retreat to Valletta and shut the gates.

Most of the population () speaks German ( 129, 592 or 77. 8 %), with Italian being second most common ( 9, 049 or 5. 4 %) and French being third ( 4, 280 or 2. 6 %).

Only a small part of the population has more than an elemental knowledge of French, the official language.

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

After the French ceded its colonies on Newfoundland and the Acadian mainland to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the French relocated the population of Plaisance, Newfoundland to Île Royale and the French garrison was established in the central eastern part at Ste.

Moore asked the commission to assess whether the francophone population of the Ottawa-Gatineau area was sufficiently well-served by existing French radio services, and to consider licensing one or more of the French language applications, which included a Christian music station, a community radio station and a campus radio station for the Université du Québec en Outaouais, in addition to or instead of the approved stations.

The first population census in Syria was taken by the French Mandatory Regime in 1921-22.

Casablanca remained a modestly sized port, with a population reaching around 12, 000 within a few years of the French conquest and arrival of French colonialists in the town, at first administrators within a sovereign sultanate, in 1906.

The remaining 5 % of Djibouti's population primarily consists of Arabs, Ethiopians and Europeans ( French and Italians ).

In 1778, during the American War of Independence, the French mounted a successful invasion with the active cooperation of the population, which was largely French.

This population and their descendants were major influences on the culture of English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish New World colonies.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of French Polynesia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Bad harvests ( caused in part by extreme weather from El Niño along with volcanic activity at Laki and Grímsvötn in 1783 – 1784 ), rising food prices, and an inadequate transportation system that hindered the shipment of bulk foods from rural areas to large population centers contributed greatly to the destabilization of French society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

In the Brunswick Manifesto, the Imperial and Prussian armies threatened retaliation on the French population if it were to resist their advance or the reinstatement of the monarchy.