Introduction Caracas officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the centre of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas. It is Venezuela’s largest urban agglomeration and the country’s primary centre of industry, commerce, education, and culture....
Introduction Damascus, the capital of Syria, is the country's largest city, surpassing Aleppo after significant population shifts due to conflicts. Known locally as aš-Šām, Damascus is an essential cultural and historical centre of the Levant and the Arab world. In 2024, it holds an estimated...
Introduction Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia as well as one of the world's oldest continuously inhabited cities. It is situated on the Hrazdan River, 14 miles from the Turkish frontier. Though first historically recorded in 607 ce, Yerevan dates by archaeological...
Introduction Santo Domingo, officially known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic. It also holds the distinction of being the most populous metropolitan area in the Caribbean. As of 2024, the city's metropolitan population is estimated at...
Introduction Detroit is the largest and most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County. The municipality of Detroit had a 2018 estimated population of 672,662, making it the 23rd-most...
Introduction Riga is the capital of Latvia and is home to 632,614 inhabitants , which is a third of Latvia's population. Being significantly larger than other cities of Latvia, Riga is the country's primate city. It is also the largest city in the three Baltic...
Introduction Baku is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located 28 metres (92 ft) below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the...
Introduction Brisbane is the capital of and the most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland,and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2.5 million, and the South East Queensland metropolitan region, centred on Brisbane, encompasses...
Introduction Niamey is the capital and largest city of the West African country of Niger. Niamey lies on the Niger River, primarily situated on the east bank. Niamey's population was counted as 978,029 as of the 2012 census; the Niamey Capital District, covering 670 km2,...
Introduction Nur-Sultan, known, between 1998 and 2019, as Astana, is the capital city of Kazakhstan. In March 2019, it was renamed Nur-Sultan in honour of the departing Kazakh president, Nursultan Nazarbayev. Nursultan lies in the north-central part of the country, along the Ishim River, at...
Introduction Guadalajara is a metropolis in western Mexico and the capital of the state of Jalisco. The city has a population of 1,460,148, while the Guadalajara metropolitan area has a population of 5,002,466, making it the second-largest metropolitan area in the country. Guadalajara has the...
Introduction Kyoto, officially Kyoto City is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Located in the Kansai region on the island of Honshu, Kyoto forms a part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kobe. As of 2018, the city had a...
Introduction Alexandria is the second-largest city in Egypt and a major economic center. With a population of 5,200,000, Alexandria is the largest city on the Mediterranean, the sixth-largest city in the Arab world and the ninth-largest in Africa. The city extends about 40 km at...
Introduction Bucharest is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the country's southeast, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than 60 km north of the Danube River and the Bulgarian...
Introduction Montevideo is the capital and largest city of Uruguay. It lies on the north shore of the Río de la Plata estuary. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 in an area of 201 square kilometres . The...
Introduction Qingdao is a major sub-provincial city in eastern Shandong province, China. Located on the western shore of Yellow Sea coast, Qingdao is a major nodal city on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road arm of the Belt and Road Initiative that connects East Asia...
Introduction Saint Petersburg formerly known as Petrograd , then Leningrad , is a city situated on the Neva River, at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is Russia's second-largest city after Moscow. With over 5.3 million inhabitants as of...
Introduction Maputo , officially named Lourenço Marques until 1976, is the capital and most populous city of Mozambique. The city is named after chief Maputsu I of the Tembe clan, a subgroup of Tsonga people. It lies along the north bank of Espírito Santo Estuary...
Introduction Fukuoka is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture, situated on the northern shore of the Japanese island of Kyushu. It is the most populous city on the island, followed by Kitakyushu. It is the largest city and metropolitan area west of Keihanshin. The city...
Introduction Philadelphia, known casually as Philly, is the largest city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city with a 2019 estimated population of 1,584,064.[Since 1854, the city has had the same geographic boundaries as Philadelphia County, the most populous county...
Introduction Belo Horizonte is the sixth-largest city in Brazil, with a population of approximately 2.5 million.It lies on the western slope of the Espinhaço Mountains, at an elevation of 2,720 feet . It is the thirteenth-largest city in South America and the eighteenth-largest in the...
Introduction Las Vegas , officially the City of Las Vegas and often known simply as Vegas, is the 28th-most populated city in the United States, the most populated city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the...
Introduction Houston, inland port city, in Harris, Fort Bend, and Montgomery counties, that is the seat of Harris county, southeastern Texas, U.S. It is linked by the Houston Ship Channel to the Gulf of Mexico and the Intracoastal Waterway at Galveston, 50 miles southeast. Its...
Introduction Harbin is a sub-provincial city and the provincial capital of Heilongjiang province, People's Republic of China, as well as the second largest city by urban population and largest city by metropolitan population in Northeast China. It is located on the south bank of the...
Introduction Rotterdam is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, at the mouth of the Nieuwe Maas channel leading into the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta at the North Sea. Its history goes back to 1270, when a dam was...
Introduction Brasília is the federal capital of Brazil and seat of government of the Federal District. The city is located atop the Brazilian highlands in the country's center-western region. It was founded on April 21, 1960, to serve as the new national capital. Brasília is...
Introduction Baghdad is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. Located along the Tigris River, the city was founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate. Within a short time of its inception,...
Introduction Rabat is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million. It is also the capital city of the Rabat-Salé-Kénitra administrative region. Rabat is located on the...
Introduction Quitois the capital of Ecuador, the country's most populous city,and at an elevation of 2,850 metres above sea level, it is the second highest official capital city in the world, after La Paz, a It is located in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the...
Introduction Ottawa is the capital city of Canada. It stands on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of southern Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area (CMA) and the National Capital Region...