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| This city was the largest on the U.S. West Coast in the 19th century, serving as a base for gold seekers | |
| This city, whose name means 'large hill,' rose to prominence in the Edo period, although a peasant revolt in 1837 destroyed a quarter of the city | |
| This Anatolian city, by legend founded by King Midas but actually dating to the Bronze Age, was afforded capital status on 13-Oct 1923, a few weeks before the republic was declared | |
| This oil-rich island city is home to the Sheikh Zayed Mosque, one of the most opulent in the world | |
| This city boasts the highest capacity sports venue in the world, a 2.5-mile racing facility that originally inspired the term 'speedway' | |
| This Neva River city was built almost from the ground up by serf labour, after Peter the Great won the land in the Great Northern War | |
| This city, known formerly as Canton, is the largest city in the Pearl River Delta megalopolis, the combined population of which exceeds 40 million | |
| This inland city on the banks of the river Rhine was an important trade centre in the Middle Ages | |
| This city, whose skyline is dominated by the CN Tower, is known as one of the most diverse and multicultural in the world | |
| This city held strategic importance in the Middle Ages as the northernmost city on the Loire, and thus that river's closest point to Paris | |
| This city of 3 m., whose name means 'saviour,' is one of the oldest in the Americas, and features an escarpment that divides the city into upper and lower towns | |
| This Punjab city is home to Islamabad International Airport, as well as the headquarters of the Pakistani Army | |
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| Now a city of 850,000, this old military fort was founded by the Yoruba peoples and served as an important centre of the Oyo Empire in western Africa | |
| This city, located in the Yangtze River Delta, may have been the largest in the world around 1400, when it was the capital of the Ming Empire | |
| The 10th largest in Latin America, this city is considered the home of mariachi music and hosted the 2011 Pan Am Games | |
| This old Silk Road centre, heavily industrialized during the Soviet period, lost its capital status in 1997 | |
| This city's downtown street network was masterplanned by British military engineers following the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852 | |
| This Mediterranean city was a popular destination for foreign tourists as early as 1854, when its beachfront promenade was renamed 'La Promenade des Anglais' | |
| Having founded a cast-steel factory in this city in 1811, the dynastic Krupp family would manage what was for several decades the largest enterprise in Europe | |
| Now one of the largest cities in the Sahara, this Atlantic fishing village has urbanized rapidly since being chosen as the capital in 1957 | |
| Situated on the Gulf of Finland, this city's well preserved old town is a reminder of an era when it was the northernmost member of the mercantile Hanseatic League | |
| Located at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, this city served as a Loyalist stronghold at the outbreak of the American Revolution; today it hosts the world's largest naval base | |
| Initially a tin-mining frontier town, this commercial hub now features two twin skyscrapers that from 1998-2004 were the tallest buildings in the world | |
| This city, which once spawned an empire, has been called 'The Eternal City' and 'Caput Mundi' | |
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