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Québec City is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the Americas, and the one that still feels closest to its roots.
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There were few Indian rulers as passionate about architecture as Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the founder of Jaipur.
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Planned at the end of the sixteenth century and built during the seventeenth, Amsterdam has inspired generations of city planners.
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Flood water continues receding from Thailand’s historic city of Ayutthaya in December 2011 and January 2012.
Floods
The Mongolian capital is spreading outward as migrants from the countryside fill neighborhoods on the fringes of the city.
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A key city on the old Silk Road stands midway between Western Europe and China.
Juba, a port city on the White Nile, is the capital of the new nation of South Sudan and is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.
Buenos Aires is one of the larger cities seen by orbiting crews. Twelve million people, almost one third of all Argentines, live in this city, often called the “Paris of the South”.
Several new farms, parks, gardens, and tree-planting projects have made Al Ain one of the greenest cities in the Middle East.
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