The city proper has a population of only about 275,000, but its suburbs spread into three Kentucky counties and four across the river in Indiana.

By about 1900 he realised that Auckland's suburbs were spreading at an alarming rate and he decided to leave the Greenlane property to the city as a park.

Its suburbs spread around the shores of Port Phillip Bay, and the city itself retreats inland to the banks of the Yarra River.

No longer content to climb up the canyon walls, its impoverished suburbs are now spreading across the high plains of the Altiplano to the west.

The Chicago metropolitan area, and capital of Cook County, is home to about 8 million people, and its suburbs spread for miles to the north, south, and west.

As San Francisco's suburbs spread east, the thousands of unknown faults that scientists suspect exist in the Bay Area carry potentially greater consequences for life and property.

Each suburb spread the word in its own way.

Ohio was densely settled; suburbs spread from towns like tentacles.

Later, suburbs spread over vast acreages, tourism flourished and the emphasis on recreation brought trailer parks and golf courses.

The suburb later spread westwards to the Hartwell railway station, which was renamed as Burwood railway station.