It has a population of about 11 million and a metropolitan population of about 16.3 million, making it the second most populous city and second most populous urban agglomeration in India.
Over subsequent decades, metropolitan population growth slowed as mining and manufacturing employment declined.
The university is the largest employer in Birmingham, which has a metropolitan population of 850,000.
ABC News reaches 14% of the metropolitan population weekly versus 3% for Sky News.
Rio now has about 800 favelas, containing more than a million people, a fifth of the metropolitan population.
When Labor attained power, more thoroughgoing legislation was introduced to redistribute voting power toward the metropolitan population.
There are three movie houses serving a metropolitan population of 200,000, and the films are often decades old.
"A rule of thumb in our industry is that your attendance should reflect your metropolitan population," Mr. Hoessel said.
Finally, we show that R&D establishments and employment in other creative professions also follow superlinear scaling relations to metropolitan population size, albeit possibly with different exponents.
Since 1950, more than 90percentt of metropolitan population growth in America has taken place in the suburbs.
