Shanghai is the largest Chinese city by population and the largest city proper by population in the world. It is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2014. It is a global financial center, and a transport hub with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
For centuries a major administrative, shipping, and trading town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War while the subsequent 1842Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlementand the French Concession. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was reoriented to focus on socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
Shanghai is a popular tourist destination renowned for its historical landmarks such as The Bund, City God Templeand Yu Garden as well as the extensive Lujiazui skyline, many skyscrapers, and major museums including theShanghai Museum and the China Art Museum. It has been described as the "showpiece" of the booming economy of mainland China.
Dubai is The Most populous city and emirate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and the second Largest emirate by territorial size partner after the capital, Abu Dhabi.
Dubai is Located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf and is one of the seven emirates That Make up the country. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the only two emirates to-have veto power over critical matters of national importance in the country's legislature. The city of Dubai is Located on the emirate's northern coastline and heads up the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area. Dubai is to host World Expo 2020.
Dubai HAS Emerged as a global city and business hub of the Persian Gulf area. It est a major transportation hub for passengers and cargo. By the 1960s Dubai's economy is based Was revenues from trade and, to a smaller extent, oil exploration concessions, profit oil Discovered Was not Until 1966. Oil started to flow back first in 1969. Dubai's oil revenue Helped Accelerate the early development of the city , icts goal reserves are limited and Production levels are low: today, less than 5% of the emirates' revenue comes from oil. The emirate's Western-style model of business drives economy icts with the hand back now coming from tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services. Recently Dubai HAS Attracted Many innovative world wide through careful construction projects and sports events. The city Become symbolic HAS icts for skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in Particular the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. Dubai has-been criticised for human rights violations concernant the city's South Asian Largely workforce. Dubai's property market has Experienced Staff deterioration in 2008-2009 Following the financial crisis of 2007-2008, purpose is making a gradual recovery with help from Neighbouring emirates.
As of 2012, Dubai is the 22nd Most Expensive city in the world and The Most expensive city in the Middle East. In 2014, Dubai's hotel rooms were rated as the second Most Expensive in the World, After Geneva. Dubai was rated as one of the best places to live in the Middle East by global consulting firm Mercer American.
Antibes is a French commune in the Alpes-Maritimes department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Its inhabitants are called Antibes or Antipolitains. Antibes is the second most populous city of the department.
Seoul city or private capital city. Is the capital of South Korea and the largest Hawwadharha. Live in a mega-city nearly 10 million people, is one of the largest cities in the developed countries. Seoul metropolitan area includes the capital of neighboring Incheon and Gyeonggi Province, the second largest metropolis with a population of more than 25.6 million people, and home to about half of South Koreans, in addition to approximately 632 thousand international resident.
Cairo is the capital of the Arab Republic of Egypt and the most important cities at all, the population of the city of Cairo 7,787,000 people, according to 2007 statistics, representing 10.73% of the total population of Egypt, while the population of Greater Cairo 20 million and a half people. Inhabited by more than a quarter of the population of Egypt, whose population at home and abroad 91 million and 475 thousand and 426 people, according to Census 2012, the population density and reach out to more than 15 thousand people per square kilometer, and historically named as the city of a thousand minarets of the many mosques.
Foundations of several cities and the capital of, commander Muizz to open the Cairo after that the foundations of the Fatimid state, has been the essence of Sicilian year 358 AH (969 AD) built a wall around the three cities and the designation of the three cities of Cairo, and includes Cairo city of Fustat, founded by Amr ibn al-Aas year 20 AH, the military and the city founded by Saleh bin Ali Abbasi year 132 AH, and the city Alktaea founded by Ahmed Ibn Tulun in 256 AH, in addition to the neighborhoods that have occurred after the reign of Salah al-Din and even now.
Cairo is the largest city in Africa and the most populous in Africa and the Middle East. It is the province of the city, any province that they occupy the entire area of one city, and at the same time constitute the province of the big city alone. Despite being a city is the largest, but it is one of the smaller provinces of Egypt as mayor. There is also what is known as the Greater Cairo administrative entity which is a semi-official includes in addition to the city / town of Cairo governorate of Giza and some of its suburbs and Shubra Al Khaimah from Qaliubiya addition to the former provinces of Helwan and Sixth of October City.
Paris is the capital of France. It lies at the heart of a vast fertile plain temperate climate, the Paris Basin, on a bend of the Seine, between the junction of the latter with the Marne and Oise. Its inhabitants are called Parisians.
Paris is also the capital of the Île-de-France and the only French town that is also a department. As the cities of Lyon and Marseille, it is divided into districts (twenty in number). It has a police commissioner.
Most populous city long in Europe, it remains the most populous France. According to the census of INSEE, the town of Paris on 1 January 2011 had over 2.2 million inhabitants. The Paris agglomeration has largely developed during the twentieth century, bringing 10.5 million at January 1, 2011, and its urban area (the city and the suburban ring) were approximately 12.3 million inhabitants on 1 January 2011 and is one of the most populated cities in Europe.
The position of Paris, on an island to cross the great navigable river that is the Seine by a route connecting the north and south of Gaul, in fact since ancient times an important city, capital of the Parisii and a base of an emperor. Its position at the center of the territory controlled by the Frankish kings actually choose as the capital of France instead of Tournai. Placed at the center of a fertile agricultural area with a damp, mild climate, Paris is one of the main cities of France during the tenth century, with royal palaces, wealthy abbeys and a cathedral; during the twelfth century, with the University of Paris, the city became one of the first homes in Europe for education and the arts. Royal power setting in the city, its economic and political importance is growing. Thus at the beginning of the fourteenth century, Paris is one of the most important of the whole Christian world cities. In the seventeenth century it was the capital of a major European political powers in the eighteenth century one of the great cultural centers of Europe and the nineteenth century capital of the arts and pleasures. Paris plays a major political and economic role in the history of Europe during the second millennium.
Roma is a city located in the center-west of the Italian peninsula and the capital of Italy since 1871, is located in the Lazio region and has 2,865,151 inhabitants established on 1285 square kilometers, making it the Italy's most populous municipality and the largest in Europe after Moscow and London. Its metropolitan area, which identifies 4,321,244 inhabitants in 2013, is however less important than those of Milan and Naples. Its inhabitants are called the Romans.
City cradle of Western civilization after Athens, Rome has a history that spans more than two thousand five hundred years. It was the center of the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe, North Africa and the Middle East for over five hundred years from the first century BC. BC to the fifth century AD. AD .. Rome occupies a crucial place in Christianity and is the seat of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican City, a sovereign state whose head is the pope.
The historic center of Renaissance and Baroque style. Rome is the third most visited in Europe after London and Paris and its historic center is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage site tourist destination.
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