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Los Angeles becomes the nation's second largest city in 1982. Third U.S. city (and first on the American West Coast, or in California) to surpass 3 million. 3 Chicago: Illinois: 2,783,726: After nearly 100 years as the nation's second largest city, Chicago is surpassed by Los Angeles in 1982 and becomes the third largest city. 4 Houston: Texas ...
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods.
Greek American novelist Jeffrey Eugenides won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for his novel Middlesex, about a Greek American family in Detroit. In 1967, Academy Award-winning film-director Elia Kazan published a novel, The Arrangement: A Novel, about a conflicted Greek American living a double life as an advertising executive and muckraking journalist ...
A major tourist destination, Rio de Janeiro is Brazil's second biggest city by population. Downtown Santiago, the capital and largest city in Chile and fifth-largest in South America. Skyline of Los Angeles, the second-largest city in the United States third-largest city in North America. Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina and the ninth ...
This is a list of the 50 largest cities in the Americas by population residing within city limits based on the most recent official census results, estimates, or short-term projections available for all of these cities, which refer to mid-2020 populations.
See related population lists; North American metro areas; ... (There are many cities in the US with no ethnic ... List of U.S. cities with large Greek American ...
For example, for U.S. cities, the list uses Metropolitan Statistical Areas as defined by the United States Census Bureau, and for Canadian cities the list uses Census Metropolitan Areas as defined by Statistics Canada. Havana has no official definition of its metropolitan area; the population within its city limits is given instead.