Ultimately, the project could encompass an area of 291 square miles with a population of 3.4 million people, more than 80 percent of them migrant workers.
Finally, the geographic county and unitary authority encompass an area south of the Ouse, including the town of Goole, that lies in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire.
Heathrow, which first opened in 1946 as a tiny airfield supporting about 9,000 commercial flights a year, has expanded steadily over the past six decades to encompass an area of about five square miles, or 13 square kilometers.
Most American cities encompass an area at least as big as Hartford, West Hartford and East Hartford, folding in middle- and upper-middle-class neighborhoods that can offset the low rates from the inner city.
Over the next few centuries, the House of Luxembourg would choose its wars and wives wisely, and the County of Luxembourg would grow to encompass an area four times the size of the present grand duchy.
In the United States, which is home to a hundred and four commercial reactors, critics noted that if a problem at the Indian Point plant, thirty-five miles north of Times Square, forced an evacuation of fifty miles — the same level imposed by the U.S. in Japan — it would encompass an area of nearly twenty million people.
The high stone walls encompassed an area not much more than 600 feet in diameter, about five or six acres.
Center City encompasses an area of about two square miles from the Delaware River west to the Schuylkill and from South Street north to Spring Garden Street.
The exploration licence encompassed an area including an Obeid property, Cherrydale Farm, which significantly increased in value when the tenement was issued.
