But the city is the power centre of Sweden, from politics to technology to design.
The North East has of course lost its regional development agency One North East, and it lacks the power centre offered by the Scottish Executive.
WHO, a Geneva-based arm of the United Nations, openly worry that the foundation is setting up a new power centre that may rival their organisation's authority.
Maj Tahir says that the nazim system offers voters unique access to the levers of power that they do not have when their political rulers are far away in the Punjabi power centre of Lahore, or the national capital Islamabad.
The difference is that Ken Livingstone was prepared to let go of power at the centre.
Between 1967 and 1989 - except for a brief Janata Party government - Congress held power at the centre and the majority of states.
Ms Blears has called for a revival of local political culture, a significant shift of power from the centre to the community and politicians who look and sound like the people they represent.
By concentrating power at the centre, Mr Blair is making it easier to ensure that government policy is coherent, rather than contradictory, and to get to grips with those messy but important problems that have been the responsibility either of several ministries or of none.
The fire at the Joy Street station in the town centre cut power to 3, 000 homes.
In its five years in power Denmark's centre-right government has presided over a boom.
But all were in or around Chechnya itself, far from the centre of power in Moscow.
Russia has traditionally had only one centre of power: the Kremlin.
Britain ran the ball on the last tackle after receiving possession from the drop out and Harris' brilliantly-timed pass to Paul Newlove allowed the centre to power over.
Army rule shifted the centre of power further from them still, for the army is largely Punjabi and Pathan, and those groups reaped the benefits of soldierly rule.
He headed to another significant Celtic site, the Rock of Cashel, in the town of Cashel, County Tipperary, about 94km north of Cork, which then rivalled Tara as a centre of power in Ireland.
They were designed to try to ensure the minutiae of local representation was not lost as power shifted towards the centre and survived the overhaul which created the current system of local government in 1996.
Along the way, he makes judicious use of political events, large and small, to show what happens to men who get close to the centre of power, be they senators, murky intelligence agents or small-time hoods.
Agricultural rents fluctuate, the centre of political power shifts, old families rise and fall.
When Mr Laar's right-of-centre coalition took power two years ago, it was determined to reform the machinery of government.
Parties seriously hoping to win power tend to hog the centre ground.
The directly elected national assembly, the lower house, is the formal centre of legislative power, but Mr Ravalomanana is keen to ensure that he and his ministerial team, rather than parliamentarians, set the agenda.
As the clock ticked over into injury time a last assault from the Wallabies saw them come within inches of scoring several times before Giteau sent the ball wide for replacement centre Cross to power over.
Ancillary and power facilities and a visitors' centre will go up in 2008.
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Then they look at the new centre of some economic power, and rather more than some juicy funds, the European Union.
On July 20th the government announced that 14.4% of Chileans were living below the poverty line, down from 15.1% in 2009, when the centre-left was in power under Michelle Bachelet.
No single party had a majority in the 56-member parliament but the three-party, centre-right coalition in power had 30 seats in total - one more than needed to pass the bailout.
When Prime Minister Mario Monti took power, he put the issue at the centre of his programme.
To an extent never seen in England, the court was the centre of taste as well as power.
Mr Rossel and his fellow supergovernors are a rising class, but the new arrangement that gives them increasing clout in the centre is not backed by unfettered power over their fiefs at home.
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