Today, it is approximately half urban, with the city population growing at the rate of about 1% a year.
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It is now home to The Museum of Musical Instruments, which despite holding more than 5, 000 rare items has faded into relative anonymity with much of the city population.
The city population has dwindled from 2 million to 900, 000.
But the tragedy in Shanghai has prompted public warnings about the need for fire prevention, as Chinese cities continue to build high-rise structures to accommodate the burgeoning city population.
While the city population has shrunk (from a peak population of 1.8 million in 1950 to 714, 000 in the last census), it has hardly reduced the government that serves it.
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Today was the fifth day in the battle for Qusayr, a small Syrian city, population normally about 30, 000, that lies close to the border with Lebanon.
The Harvard Business School graduate has kept New York City (population: 8.4 million) afloat amid a staggering financial crisis and a seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 10.6%.
By 1886, sunny days brought one-fifth of the city's population to their park, ignoring the city's newspaper dire warning that its scenic benches could lead to "excess hugging".
Half of the city's population comes from immigrant backgrounds, Solidance notes, and the city supports a "good level" of diversity acceptance.
The Shanghai Population and Family Planning Committee says that more than a third of the city's population will be over 60 by 2020.
Mianyang is the only city in Sichuan Province, besides Chengdu, to receive State Council approval to develop as a million-plus population city.
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"While the load of its ageing population is weighing down Sweden, our city has a young population that is in itself an investment in future welfare, " he says.
The city's population is growing rapidly and there is limited infrastructure to handle this boom.
Since 1950, when Philadelphia had around 2m residents, the city's population has slumped by a quarter.
By comparison, in the US only New York City has a population of more than 5 million.
The city's population has grown by more than 161, 500 people since 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated.
Santa Maria is a major university city with a population of around a quarter of a million.
The city has a population of 6.3m and growing, and accounts for over a fifth of Vietnam's economy.
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At the same time, demand is increasing as the city's population rose to about 2.8 million last year.
The city peaked in population by the year 700, and by 900, "the show is over, " Scarborough said.
In the past half-century the city's population has shriveled from 857, 000 to 343, 000.
Throughout the attacks, the British have tried to win over the city's population.
The city's population has declined by 13, 500, or 3.6 percent, from the 380, 000 people it had before the magnitude 6.3 earthquake.
But with 5.5% of the city's population claiming unemployment benefit, well above the national average of 3.8%, more jobs are needed.
Mr. Ye's mother is a member of the Bai ethnic group, which comprises more than 65% of the city's population of 652, 000.
The city's population has dropped more than 50% since 1950 to an estimated 318, 000 in 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The city's homicides were 80% gang-related, and 80% of the victims were black, although only 33% of the city's population is black.
Back in the 1940s, George Zipf, an American researcher, noted that a city's population is inversely proportional to its rank in a country.
Many Katrina evacuees stayed away, and the city's population somewhere above the 360, 740 counted as of 2011 isn't back to its pre-storm level of 455, 000.
Meanwhile, the city's population has fallen, declining to 59, 515 in 2010, a 10.3% drop from 10 years earlier, according to the U.S. Census.
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