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 | | The census bureau estimate for July 20, 2005 is 11,322,000 for the province, which is generally considered as the metropolitan area, making it one of the twenty largest metropolitan areas in the world. |
 | | Elevated office and residential areas are located particularly in the north on the hills above the second Bosphorus bridge above Bebek in the quarters of Levent, Etiler and Maslak. |
 | | Despite this burden, in the middle of 1999 a slow reorganization of the economy of Istanbul was observed, until the earthquake centered in Kocaeli on 17 August 1999 caused the second large economic shock for the city from the east after the crisis in Russia. |
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