But even the city proper has grown to more than 10m, from 8.5m a decade ago.
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Today, Xochimilco is one of the 16 boroughs within the Mexican Federal District that makes up Mexico City proper.
They will be shuttled in and out of the city proper for museums, Broadway shows, class trips and family dinners.
Head north into Atlantic City proper and the experience is quite different from the almost bucolic feel of Margate and Marven Gardens.
The population of the city proper was 437, 715 at the 1 Jan. 2006 census, with 1, 102, 882 inhabitants in the metropolitan at the 1 Jan. 2006 census.
There are some in Cleveland, in actually the city proper of Cleveland, who are concerned, saying that Cleveland is a prime example of a city who can benefit from any kind of stimulus package.
After he died, in 1951, his will was slowly picked apart until legal permission was granted to move the pieces from his private museum outside Philadelphia to a soon-to-be-finished public one in the city proper.
Meanwhile, across the Mississippi River and south of the city proper lie major suburban areas, also protected by levees, a system of canals and pumps, and abutting marshes and bays where storm can surges rise.
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Sin City's single-family vacancy rate of 5.5 percent at the end of last year more than 7, 000 empty homes in the city proper, according to Census estimates was among the highest in the country.
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As of now I am negotiating with the land owner in the city proper of Zamboanga City Philippines, I am proposing a 60 unit Housing Projects covering more than I hectare land and it cost me 25 to 30 Million pesos in order to start the project.
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Gips has been bursting with downhome music for more than 50 years without benefit of proper city certification.
This is about protecting towns and city centres and about a proper application of the planning regulations.
Based on established legal precedent, the 2nd Circuit decided that the city's decision was proper under established law.
The previous incarnation of Guildford City reached the Second Round proper six times during the course of their history before the club's demise in 1974.
Inhabitants built a mirror city in the caves surrounding Vicksburg proper caves provided the only available protection from the incessant bombardment.
The newspaper cited a city spokeswoman as saying police followed proper procedures in removing her name from the list because they weren't able to reach her mother to verify that she was still missing.
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This real-time need for information rendered the traditional way of communication inadequate, causing gridlock in the city and citizens to be unaware of the proper emergency routes.
By 2030, when greater Cairo's population is predicted to top 30 million, the government estimates that half of those residents will live not in Cairo proper, but in a satellite city.
The city encouraged Mr. Gipson to apply for the proper zoning and licensing or move his establishment to a commercially zoned location.
Belleville was newly part of Paris proper, as the 20th became the city's final arrondissement, out on the volute's tail and the Commune was defeated but not forgotten.
That forced the city to show it was enforcing the codes for a proper reason.
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And, although boss Graham Turner then brought in another loan keeper, Chris Weale from Bristol City, when he also got injured, Samson was this time given a proper chance.
The likelihood of civil unrest is lessened by the fact that the incident took place in Inglewood, an independent city that nestles between four freeways, rather than in big, bad Los Angeles proper.
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"We wanted to use the same building and do a proper reconstruction, but it's just not possible in the middle of the city these days, " he said.
She said the Commons fees office had approved the claims for the home in the city where her partner had worked for 20 years and said she could not "have a proper family life... unless I share the costs of the Southampton home".
There was a time when singer-pianist Diana Krall (who is also appearing at the Borgata in Atlantic City on Saturday and the Beacon Theater next Friday) was labeled a musical "conservative" apparently the proper term for an artist whose songs were popular before she was born.
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