Lourdes is the second-biggest city in Hautes-Pyrénées, dedicated almost exclusively to the pilgrimage industry.

And everyone from The Los Angeles Times to the mayor is putting forth ideas on how best to remodel the country's second-biggest city.

Buffalo is the second-biggest city in New York State.

But in late 19th century, it again it became the second-biggest city in the wider southern Balkan region after Salonica.

Nalbandian grew up farther north in Unquillo, near Cordoba, Argentina's second-biggest city.

It was not safe for him to go further north to Basra, the second-biggest city in Iraq, his aides said.

In Mandalay, the second-biggest city, almost naked children with distended stomachs scrounged on the riverfront.

By its old spelling, Calcutta, India's second-biggest city conjures up images of human suffering to most Westerners.

Don't expect a beautiful place; Sardinia's second-biggest city has the gritty individuality and drabness of a Sardinian working town.

Then the rebels captured Huambo, Angola's second-biggest city, in a battle that claimed thousands of lives.