With the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986, these metropolitan boroughs became independent, and continue to be so at present.

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.

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

With the recent election of Benedict XVI in 2005, his personal coat of arms eliminated the papal tiara ; a mitre with three horizontal lines is used in its place, with the pallium, a papal symbol of authority more ancient than the tiara, the use of which is also granted to metropolitan archbishops as a sign of communion with the See of Rome, was added underneath of the shield.

With 1, 202, 889 inhabitants as of 1 January 2008, the Toulouse metropolitan area is the fourth-largest in France, after Paris ( 12. 1 million ), Lyon ( 2. 1 million ), and Marseille ( 1. 7 million ).

With a population at the 2010 census of 129, 779 people, New Haven is the principal municipality in the Greater New Haven metropolitan area, which had a total population of 862, 477 in 2010.

With a population of 189, 899 as of the 2011 estimate, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1, 145, 905.

With 142, 722 inhabitants in a 2007 census, Brest is at the centre of Western Brittany's largest metropolitan area ( with a population of 300, 300 in total ), ranking third behind only Nantes and Rennes in the whole of historic Brittany, and the 22nd most populous city in France ; moreover, Brest provides services to the one million inhabitants of Western Brittany.

With a municipal population of 7, 605, 743, and 8, 472, 935 for the metropolitan area and a population density of as of 2007, Lima ranks as the 27th most populous ' agglomeration ' in the world.

With the assistance of an Egyptian informant wearing a listening device, the FBI managed to record Rahman issuing a fatwa encouraging acts of violence against US civilian targets, particularly in the New York and New Jersey metropolitan area.

With an Arbitron-assigned 836, 700 listening area population, the metropolitan area of which Bonita Springs is one part ranks 61 / 300 for the spring of 2009.

With a trade area of over half a million people it is the largest metropolitan area between Denver and Calgary and between Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Spokane, Washington.

With the other bishops of the Church, the metropolitan is considered the first among equals.

With the arisal of the Berlin metropolitan area the original Brandenburgisch together with Berlinerisch has formed the local Berlin-Brandenburgish dialect, which today is considered an East Central German subgroup.

With a population of 1, 161, 308, it is the eighth most populous city in Russia, while the metropolitan area has a population of 1. 57 million ( 2011 ).

With its Newark hub United is the largest provider of air service to the New York metropolitan area.

With the collapse of tin prices and the closure of the tin mines in the late 1970s, Ipoh's growth stagnated and resulted in migration to other parts of Malaysia ( particularly metropolitan areas such as Kuala Lumpur ) and Singapore.

Ebetsu is located about 16 km from downtown Sapporo, accessed by the Hokkaido Expressway, by Chūō or JR Hokkaidō bus lines, or by the Asahikawa-Hakodate train line that approximately follows Route 12 north-south through town ( With Oasa, Nopporo, Takasago, and Ebetsu stations ), joining with the northwest-southeast running main line that extends from Chitose Airport to Sapporo Station in Shinsapporo ( meaning new Sapporo, a district of larger metropolitan Sapporo ).

With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming.

With a population of 110, 514 and 278, 206 inhabitants in the metropolitan area in 2006, it is the largest city in the Haut-Rhin département, and the second largest in the Alsace region after Strasbourg.

With a population of approximately 1. 4 million in the city, and nearly 2 million in the metropolitan area, Johor Bahru is the second largest urban area in Malaysia, after the national capital, Kuala Lumpur, and its associated Klang Valley region.

With the founding of the Marca Hispanica, the diocese, like the others recently restored, became part of the ecclesiastical province of Narbonne until the recreation of the metropolitan see of Tarragona in 1091.

With an estimated population of 1, 402, 056 people — 2, 249, 405, or considering its metropolitan area — is the 11th most populous city in Brazil ( besides being the second largest in the North Region, second only Manaus, in Amazonas state ) as well as be the 16th by economic relevance.

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.

With about 6 million native speakers in South Africa, or 13. 3 percent of the population, it is the third most spoken mother tongue in the country.

With a population of about 66, 000, Aalen is the 15 most-populated settlement in Baden-Württemberg.

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.

With of land and a population of only 333, 200 inhabitants ( 2010 est.

Bahamian tastes in consumer products roughly parallel those in the U. S. With approximately 85 % of the population of primarily African descent, there is a large and growing market in the Bahamas for " ethnic " personal care products.

With the establishment of a German state in Prussia, and the eradication or flight of much of the Baltic Prussian population in the 13th century, the remaining Prussians began to be assimilated, and by the end of the 17th century, the Prussian language had become extinct.

With more than 1. 1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.

With less than 1 percent of the total population holding a bank account, access to financial services is extremely limited in the CAR.

With agriculture came increased population, the ability to store and redistribute crops, and the potential to support specialist craftsmen and administrators.

With a population of 6. 76 million spread over, Cairo is by far the largest city in Egypt.

With a population of 110, 438 as of the 2011 according to the United States Census, it is the principal municipality of the Columbia Metropolitan Area, a region of 175, 831 residents.

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

With kidnapping methods Cheka was able to extinguish numerous cases of discontent especially among the rural population.

With increased population movements, the possibility of transmission by blood transfusion became more substantial in the United States.

With a steadily enlarging Somali population, the likelihood of a third referendum appearing successful had grown even more dim.

With an average annual population growth rate of 2. 5 percent, the economy cannot significantly benefit national income per capita growth.

With most of the population remaining active in ( or indirectly dependent on ) the agricultural sector, the main pressure in most areas remained land clearing for crop and cattle farming.

With a population rate increase of 4. 39 % annually the city has become the third fastest growing in Africa ( 9th fastest in the world ), after Bamako and Lagos, respectively.

With 2, 000 congregations and a membership of some 1. 8 million ( or 10. 8 % of the Dutch population, 2009 ), it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.

With a population of about 1. 3 million, Estonia has about 1. 7 million cellular telephones, 0. 5 million fixed phones, and 0. 8 million internet users ( as of 2006 ).

With a population of approximately 3, 000, and the number of speakers in the mere hundreds, Alutiiq communities are currently in the process of revitalizing their language.

With the onset of the dechristianisation campaign the Republic silenced these bells and sought simultaneously to silence the religious fervor of the majority Catholic population.

With a 2010 census population of 143, 986, it is the fourth most populous city in Colorado.