The city of Turin has more than 850,000 inhabitants .
Turin is the largest city to have ever hosted a Winter Olympics , and was the largest metropolitan area to host them at the time. < ref name='slc_explanation ' > The 2002 Salt Lake City games also claims this title because at the time of the Olympics its Combined Statistical Area population was 1,516,227 and some events were held in the Provo metropolitan area of 400,209 ( tables from the Census ) .
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