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Some global cities are considered national or regional primate cities. [5] [11] An example of a global city that is also a primate city is Istanbul in Turkey.Istanbul serves as the primate city of Turkey due to the unmatched economic, political, cultural, and educational influence that the city possesses in comparison to other Turkish cities such as the capital Ankara, İzmir, or Bursa.
Pages in category "Primates of Southeast Asia" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Port Moresby (/ ˈ m ɔːr z b i / ⓘ; Tok Pisin: Pot Mosbi), also referred to as Pom City or simply Moresby, is the capital and largest city of Papua New Guinea. It is one of the largest cities in the southwestern Pacific (along with Jayapura ) outside of Australia and New Zealand.
The grouping of Thai provinces into regions follow two major systems in which Thailand is divided into either four or six regions.In the six-region system, commonly used in geographical studies, central Thailand extends from Sukhothai and Phitsanulok Provinces in the north to the provinces bordering the Gulf of Thailand in the south, excluding the mountainous provinces bordering Myanmar to the ...
Today it remains one of the largest mosques in Central Asia, and can welcome some 10,000 worshippers at a time. And then there’s Timur’s grandson, Ulug Bheg.
Most populous cities in Southeast Asia (500,000+ inhabitants) Largest metropolitan areas
Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to lowland southern China, and through Indonesia as far as Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo, east of which lies the Wallace line, the realm boundary named after Alfred Russel Wallace which separates Indomalaya from Australasia.
The word was invented in 1967 by the Greek city planner Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis to represent the idea that, in the future, urban areas and megalopolises would eventually fuse, and there would be a single continuous worldwide city as a progression from the current urbanization, population growth, transport and human networks. [1]