Many of the people living in the region think they already know the answer.

About 60 percent of the school's instructors live in the region.

There are some 400 black bears living in the region.

There are more than 50 ethnic groups living in the region.

It is spoken as a first language by 98.7% of the people who live in the region.

Although more people live in the immediate region around the town.

There were people living in the region since a very long time, most of them along the coast.

But people have lived in the region for thousands of years.

And what difference will that make to people living in the region?

About 100,000 people live in the region surrounding the city.