1.  Coventry was a provincial capital, one of the half-dozen largest provincial cities and the fourth richest.

2.  Los Angeles is the second largest city in the US.

3.  Still, there is an immense income disparity between the largest cities, Jakarta and Soerabaya, and rural areas.

4.  This, the second largest city in Bavaria, is an unusual mix of ancient architecture and almost tangible joie-de-vivre.

5.  In Nouakchott, the capital and by far the largest city in Mauritania, an Islamic fundamentalist list gained two-thirds of the seats.

6.  The strength of the largest city firms stems from the international business that flows through the capital.

7.  During its years of power Constantinople was the largest city in Europe with a population of more than half a million.

8.  In the later period, from the tenth century, it was the second largest city of the empire and its rich Byzantine heritage still shows this.

9.  An uneasy truce has prevailed since late October, when thousands of cocaleros gathered for protests in Cochabamba, the largest city near the Chapare.

10.  And people in the third and fourth largest cities in the state, Grand Forks and Minot, could not fly in or out at all.