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This is a list of planned cities (sometimes known as planned communities or new towns) by country. Additions to this list should be cities whose overall form (as opposed to individual neighborhoods or expansions) has been determined in large part in advance on a drawing board, or which were planned to a degree which is unusual for their time and place.
The fact remains that, for about half of each day, above-water territory that Canada regards as Canadian is surrounded by sea territory that the U.S. has declared to be American. Maps of the Dixon Entrance showing the A-B Line of 1903 [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 10 ] (left) and the boundary currently claimed by the U.S. [ 11 ] (right).
The United States bought Alaska in 1867 from Russia in the Alaska Purchase, but the boundary terms were ambiguous. In 1871, British Columbia united with the new Dominion of Canada . The Canadian government requested a survey of the boundary, but the United States rejected it as too costly; the border area was very remote and sparsely settled ...
From Alaska to Maine, all border states have seen an influx of migrants over the past two years, especially New York and the New England states, which border the heavily populated areas of ...
It should not be confused with 'urban areas' or 'built-up areas' that are more rigorously defined by the Office for National Statistics – or even city status. Historically, the boundaries of cities within England and the United Kingdom as a whole have remained largely undefined, [citation needed] leading to difficulties in comparisons between ...
'Russian America' on a map. The Treaty of Saint Petersburg of 1825 or the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1825, officially the Convention Concerning the Limits of Their Respective Possessions on the Northwest Coast of America and the Navigation of the Pacific Ocean, [1] defined the boundaries between Russian America and British claims and possessions of the Pacific Coast, and the later Yukon and ...
This is a list of the cities and towns in New England with population over 25,000 as of the 2020 census. Massachusetts contains the most cities and towns on the list with 80, while Vermont contains the fewest with just one. Neither Vermont's nor Maine's state capitals fall within the top 150 by population.
A border town is a town or city close to the boundary between two countries, states, or regions. Usually the term implies that the nearness to the border is one of the things the place is most famous for.