Showing posts with the label City

Akademgorodok: Siberia’s Silicon Valley

Jan 3, 2018

Tucked away in a remote forest of birch and pine in the heart of Siberia, 3,000 km away from Moscow, at a place where winters are six months...

Derbent: Russia’s Oldest City

Dec 1, 2017

Located on a narrow strip of land between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains in the far western end of Eurasia, is the city of Derbe...

Sansha: A City That Includes Almost an Entire Ocean

Oct 5, 2015

On July 2012, China announced a new prefecture-level city called Sansha whose seat of administration lies on what it calls Yongxing Island, ...

The City of Batman, on Batman River in Batman Province

Jul 6, 2015

Unless you are Turkish, Batman can mean only one thing — the DC Comics superhero with a cool utility belt who lives in Gotham City. But if y...

Chan Chan: World’s Largest Adobe City

Apr 25, 2015

Located near the Pacific coast in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, 5 km west of Trujillo, Chan Chan was the largest Pre-Columbian city in...

The Sunken Pirate City of Port Royal

Feb 25, 2015

Port Royal was a city situated on the end of an 18-mile long sand spit known as the Palisadoes, at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in sou...

Istanbul, The City That Lies in Two Continents

Oct 16, 2014

Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the fifth-largest city in the world by population, is considered European, yet it occupies two diff...

Iquitos, World’s Largest City That Cannot Be Reached by Road

Aug 13, 2014

Iquitos is an important port city of the Amazon and Peru’s largest jungle town. It is located in the Amazon basin at the confluence of the N...

The Depressing Industrial City of Norilsk

Jun 21, 2014

Norilsk is an industrial city located in Krasnoyarsk Krai, in Russia. It is the northernmost city in the world with a population of 170,000 ...

Ashgabat: The City of White Marbles

Mar 7, 2014

Ashgabat is the capital of Turkmenistan and the country’s largest city. Ashgabat is a relatively young city having grown out of a village of...

Sao Paulo: The City With No Outdoor Advertisements

Jul 20, 2013

In September 2006, the mayor of São Paulo passed the so-called “Clean City Law" that outlawed the use of all outdoor advertisements, in...

The Incredible Mountain City of La Paz, Bolivia

Jul 25, 2012

La Paz whose full name is Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia and the second largest city in the country (in p...

11 Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World

Jul 2, 2012

Ever since man learned to grow their own food and rear cattle, they have been living in permanent to semi-permanent settlements with certain...