There were few Indian rulers as passionate about architecture as Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh, the founder of Jaipur.
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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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A key city on the old Silk Road stands midway between Western Europe and China.
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Rome holds about 2.7 million people and rests 12 miles inland from the Mediterranean Sea halfway down Italy’s west coast. In the above image, the city appears as a grayish mass.
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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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Nearly 10 percent of Brazil’s population lives in São Paulo, which ranks as the tenth largest city in the world.
The Mongolian capital is spreading outward as migrants from the countryside fill neighborhoods on the fringes of the city.
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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.
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