General ⇒ [help] how can I create a special cell like this?

[umb365]

how can I create a special cell like this?

Hi all.
I meet a problem:
I wanna create a sheet, one of the cell shoule look like this:
------------
|Population|
|.....of.....|
|.the.city..|
------------

The words are centered and wrapped under my control.

but, when I use "tabular*" or "tabularx":

\begin{tabular*}{250pt}{|p{10ex}|}
\hline
Population of the city \\
\hline
\end{tabular*}

the cell looks like this:
------------
|Population|
|of the.....|
|city........|
------------

Question:
What can I do? Is there any other package can resolve the issues?

Thanks in the advanced.

[umb365]

dots (".") in the cell mean the blank char.

[gmedina]

Hi umb365,

you can use p{length} or m{length} along with the \centering command. Please refer to the documentation of the array package for further information:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{array}

\begin{document}

\begin{tabular}{|>{\centering\arraybackslash}p{1.7cm}p{3cm}|}
  Population of\\ the city & some text \\
\end{tabular}

\end{document}

[umb365]

Thank you. I will read the article first.