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| This city of 8 m. people, known locally as Krung Thep, is by some measures the world's most popular tourist destination | |
| This city was the centre of the mostly 19th-century Bengal Renaissance, which sought to merge various aspects of the ancient past with newer Western influences | |
| During its 'Golden Age' in the 17th century, this city was the leading financial centre of the world and the focal point of a worldwide trading network | |
| This St. Lawrence River city was the leading commercial centre nationally until the 1970s, when a stricter provincial language policy diminished its attractiveness to business | |
| This city, situated on a coastal lagoon, is the centre of 'Nollywood,' the second largest film industry in the world by number of annual productions | |
| This sprawling city forms the second largest metropolitan area in the Americas, and is characterized by its diversity, with for example the largest Italian community outside Italy | |
| This popular tourist destination is sometimes referred to as 'The Theme Park Capital of the World' | |
| This Black Sea port was the fourth largest city of Imperial Russia in the 19th century, following Moscow, St. Petersburg and Warsaw | |
| This White Sea city was from 1918-1920 a stronghold of the anti-Bolshevik White Army, supported by an Allied expedition | |
| This city, the capital of Yunnan province, links China by rail to Vietnam and by road to Burma and Laos | |
| This city, the capital of Ethiopia from 1632-1855, is known for its picturesque remains of imperial castles and palaces | |
| One of the wealthiest in northern Brazil, this city is named after the stone reefs found along the city's shores | |
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| This city flourished in the 16th century under the Safavid dynasty, and is renowned for its Islamic architecture in the form of bridges, palaces, mosques, and minarets | |
| This Bavarian city was the site of large annual Nazi rallies and, later, a series of war crimes trials | |
| This city on the west bank of the Nile is home to a number of magnificent ancient structures, including the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramid | |
| Unofficially the capital of Flanders, this major seaport was the home of the Baroque painter Rubens | |
| This city is notable for its Khmer and French colonial architecture and for being forcibly emptied in 1975, its residents forced into the countryside to do manual labour | |
| This tropical capital city on the Almendares River boasts a diverse architectural heritage with baroque, colonial, neoclassical, Art Deco and modernist influences | |
| This city in the middle of Nigeria was masterplanned in the 1970s by an American consortium and has grown rapidly since being named capital in 1991 | |
| In the Ottoman period, this city was the chief seat of Barbary pirates who scoured the Mediterranean for Christian slaves for the Ottoman slave trade | |
| This Nordic city grew rapidly in the 17th century as the capital of an imperial power, but stagnated for a while after the Great Northern War | |
| This city traces the history of its influence to 1561, when King Philip II (on whose great empire 'the Sun never set') moved his court here from Valladolid | |
| This city's port is the largest on the Persian Gulf, despite the area being settled only in 1923 | |
| Located in a large valley in a high plateau, this megacity owes its creation to the Aztecs in 1325 | |
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