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The Port moved over $100 billion in goods in 2003, making it the 15th busiest in the world at the time, but was the number one container port as recently as 1985. [172] Plans are underway for billions of dollars of improvements–larger cranes, bigger railyard facilities, deeper channels, and expanded wharves. [173]
Cabarrus County (/ k ə ˈ b ɛər ə s / kuh-BAIR-us) [1] [2] is a county located in the south-central part of the U.S. state of North Carolina.As of the 2020 census, the population was 225,804, making it the 9th-most populous county in North Carolina. [3]
The analysis predicted that 80 million ballots could be cast by mail in 2020—more than double the number in 2016. [ 174 ] The Postal Service sent a letter to multiple states in July 2020, warning that the service would not be able to meet the state's deadlines for requesting and casting last-minute absentee ballots. [ 175 ]
Omaha (/ ˈ oʊ m ə h ɑː / OH-mə-hah) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska and the county seat of Douglas County. [6] It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River.
The country's urban population more than tripled between 1981 and 2017 (from 23.8 million to 75.7 million), as Pakistan's urbanisation rate rose from 28.2% to 36.4%. Even with this, the nation's urbanisation rate remains one of the lowest in the world , and in 2017, over 130 million Pakistanis (making up nearly 65% of the population) lived in ...
In 1772, the Spanish Viceroy of Peru Don Manuel de Amat ordered a number of expeditions to Tahiti under the command of Domingo de Bonechea who was the first European to explore all of the main islands beyond Tahiti. [10] A short-lived Spanish settlement was created in 1774, [7] and for a time some maps bore the name Isla de Amat after Viceroy ...
In 1950, the city was incorporated and by 1951 the population had doubled from its 1941 numbers. On April 1, 1953, the city was designated the capital of the Yukon Territory when the seat was moved from Dawson City after the construction of the Klondike Highway. [20] On March 21, 1957, the name was officially changed from White Horse to ...