1.  As a percentage of the population, Santa Ana, the largest city in the district, has more Hispanic residents than any other US city except El Paso.

2.  As a result there is considerable curiosity here over how he will govern North America's largest city when he takes office in December.

3.  Denver has the thinnest population, according to an obesity study of the nation's 33 largest cities released last year.

4.  Detroit, Michigan's largest city, has one of the nation's most troubled inner city areas.

5.  Despite having absolutely no government experience, Bloomberg is convinced he has what it takes to lead the nation's largest city.

6.  DETROIT-CASINO (Detroit) _ A casino opens in Detroit, the largest U.S. city to have one.

7.  Despite its slippage in parliamentary voting, however, Virtue seemed likely to hold the mayors' posts in the country's two largest cities, Istanbul and Ankara.

8.  During 10 days in March, 11,600 B-29 sorties had wiped out 32 square miles of the four largest Japanese cities, killing at least 150,000 people.

9.  Despite these obstacles, an opposition coalition managed to triumph in runoff elections earlier this month in 15 of Serbia's 18 largest cities, including Belgrade.

10.  Diamante's plants are inland, concentrating on the urban triangle of Bogota, Medellin and Cali, Colombia's three largest cities.