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| This British city has a history as a noted innovation hub: during the Industrial Revolution its residents registered 3 times as many patents as any other British city's | |
| This city has famously resisted invasions by Napoleon and Hitler's Germany | |
| This city suffered tremendously during World War II, with 85% of its buildings destroyed; its Jewish ghetto was liquidated in April 1943 after an unsuccessful uprising | |
| This capital city on the Khomas Highland plateau was first settled by an Afrikaner and founded by a German army major | |
| This high-altitude city, located in a valley surrounded by mountains, is highly dependent on tourism and boasts many Hindu and Buddhist sites | |
| This western Chinese city was a major hub on the Silk Road during the Tang dynasty (7th - 9th c.) | |
| In 1950, this city was the site of a decisive victory by UN forces over the Korean People's Army | |
| This port city played a big role in the American slave trade and was by far the biggest southern city in the antebellum era | |
| Sold to the US by France in 1803, this city became the gateway to the West and was the first non-European city to host the Olympics | |
| The automobile is purported to have been invented in this Swabian city by Karl Benz, and the city is home to the headquarters of both Mercedes-Benz and Porsche | |
| This Mediterranean city is renowned for its Bauhaus architecture that has inspired the nickname 'White City' | |
| Grand Duke Gediminas is credited with building this city up to become the capital of a duchy extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea | |
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| The oldest sample of wine in the world was discovered near this ancient city, one of the oldest in Persia | |
| This mining city delivered much silver for the Spanish crown, but it was also the venue of one of the bloodiest battles of the Mexican Revolution | |
| This city, situated in a valley near the Andes, is home to South America's largest metro system | |
| This northern city, known for a time as Kristiania, is one of the most expensive in the world | |
| This Mediterranean city, founded by Moorish traders in 903, had a varied colonial history, with Spanish, Ottoman, and French periods | |
| This capital city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Sahelian Highway and also on the Tripoli-Cape Town Highway (although through the Sahara the latter is merely a desert track) | |
| It was from his ashram in the suburb of this city that Mahatma Gandhi led a 24-day march to coastal Dandi to protest the British salt monopoly | |
| This city is home to Germany's third largest airport and is also a major hub in the Deutsche Bahn network | |
| This Tuscan city is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, during which time it was controlled from behind the scenes by the famous Medici family | |
| This city is at 4150 m the highest major metropolis in the world, and also the largest city in Latin America with a mostly Amerindian population | |
| One of the hottest cities in the world with average highs of 30-42 C year-round, this city is the largest in its country and sits across the Nile from the national capital | |
| During WWII, Japan is alleged to have dropped bombs containing fleas infested with the bubonic plague on this Chinese port city | |
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