Question: George Hires represented the state that ranks what in regards to population figures?

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Igede
List of urban areas in the European Union
Largest cities in southern California
List of countries by population in 2010
List of cities in Argentina by population
New Jersey
List of countries by population in 2005
South Bay, Florida
Demographics of Arizona

George Hires (January 26, 1835 – February 16, 1911) was an American Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1889.
The Igede people are the third largest ethnic group in present-day Benue State of Nigeria.
 They are native to the Oju and Obi local government areas of Nigeria, where 2006 population figures stand at an estimated 267,198 people.
 However, a large number of Igede people are dispersed across the state and the Nation.
 For instance, the Igede language is also spoken in Nigeria's Cross River State, and a large number of Igede communities exist in Osun State and Ogun State.
 The Igede language is a member of the Benue-Congo subgroup of the Niger-Congo language family.
 Igede.org is the unofficial online community of Igede people.
This is a list of urban areas in the European Union with over 500,000 inhabitants as of 2014.
 This list is an attempt to present a consistent list of population figures for urban areas in the European Union.
 Figures here have been compiled by Demographia and the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
 Demographia provides figures for urban areas (including conurbations), while the UN DESA figures are for agglomerations only.
 For comparison, Function Urban Area (FUA) population figures by Eurostat are also provided, however, these measure the wider metropolitan areas.
This is a list of the 100 largest cities in southern California by population.
 Official definitions of cities are defined according to the concept of city proper.
 The list ranks the region's urban municipal units (or well-defined statistical groupings of sudech units) according to the population.
 Note that the populations listed are for the city proper and not for the urban area nor the metropolitan area.
 Population figures for southern California cities are based on the reports of the 2010 United States Census.
This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 2010 (rounded to the nearest 1,000).
 The figures are estimates for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) "2010 annual statistics", List the more than 100,000 of population in country and territory.
This list of Argentine cities by population briefly explains the three different population figures given for Argentine cities, and provides rankings for each.
 The population of each city except Buenos Aires includes its conurbation.
 Greater Buenos Aires has a population of 12,801,365.
New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.
 It is a peninsula, bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on the southwest by the Delaware Bay and Delaware.
 New Jersey is the fourth-smallest state by area but the 11th-most populous and the most densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.
 New Jersey lies entirely within the combined statistical areas of New York City and Philadelphia and is the third-wealthiest state by median household income as of 2016.
This is a list of sovereign states and other territories by population, with population figures estimated for 1 July 2005 (rounded to the nearest 1,000).
 The figures are estimates for the year 2005 from the U.N. World Population Prospects (2004 revision) using the medium fertility variant.
South Bay is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States.
 It is the westernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area.
 The population was 3,859 at the 2000 census.
 As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau was 4,506.
 While the current estimates place South Bay's population in the incorporated city limits at more than 4,000 people, surrounding areas increase the population figures to 54,000 people in a 25 mi radius and more than 1.4 million in a 50 mi radius.
As of 2009, Arizona had a population of 6.343 million, which is an increase of 213,311, or 3.6%, from the prior year and an increase of 1,035,686, or 20.2%, since the year 2000.
 This includes a natural increase since the last census of 297,928 people (that is 564,062 births minus 266,134 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 745,944 people into the state.
 Immigration from outside the United States resulted in a net increase of 204,661 people, and migration within the country produced a net increase of 541,283 people.
 New population figures for the year ending July 1, 2006, indicate that Arizona is the fastest growing state in the United States, with 3.6% population growth since 2005, exceeding the growth of the previous leader, Nevada.
 The most recent population estimates released by the US Census put the population at 6,828,065 in 2015.