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When Britain made South Africa a country by force, each of the preceding countries bar Natal (which got cash) was given a Capital. SA has t...

Two thousand years of Imperial Rule ended in China in 1912. A lightly held Republic was established, but that descended into Civil War as ...

Guangzhou has a 2,200 year history as a Silk Road port. What we think of as " The Age of Discovery " is analogous to an undergrad...

I am not sure if I am a Town Donkey or a Country Donkey. Categories are more useful questions than answers. I like being able to dip in and...

The borders of countries are tidal. What divides and rules us depends on the whims of the times, and the songs we happen to be singing. Cit...

King Leopold II is a strong contender for the person responsible for committing the most evil acts in human history. The Congo was his pers...

Some people get Microwave Ovens as wedding gifts. Bombaim means good little Bay in Portuguese. In 1661, Charles II of England was given the...

Four Cities in China have the same rank as Provinces - Tianjin, Beijing, Chongqing, and Shanghai. Shanghai has a population of about ...

When 'Greece' fell to Rome, it wasn't an Empire but a bunch of independent city-states who did things differently. The ...

Munich (München) is the largest city in the German state of Bavaria (third biggest in Germany after Berlin and Hamburg) . It is a city ...

Cairo, which now has a population of 9.5 million, has long been an important global city. It managed to avoid Europe's late middle age...

Moscow is the largest city entirely on the European continent. It has 13.2 million people in the city limits, and 17.8 million in the urban...

Hagia Sophia Istanbul was once known as Constantinople and Byzantium. Its commercial and historical centres, and two thirds of its p...

For a relatively small island, the United Kingdom has a lot of flavour. People can tell from accents which city others come from even ...

One way of looking at the current political tensions is a shift from Left-Right, to Local-Global or Rural-Urban. The first was an ideol...

Now one of the 10 biggest cities in the world, the area surrounding Karachi has been inhabited for millennia. It only became a fortified...

Seoul In the middle The Seoul Capital Area is home to almost half of the 50 million strong population of South Korea . Seoul wa...

Jakarta The greater metropolitan area of Jakarta is also known as Jabodetabek . This megacity is home to over 30 million people, and ...

Delhi Map The National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT) is both a city, and a union territory of India . Almost 17 million people liv...

Dhaka Dhaka is one of the world's most populated  ( 17 million in Greater Dhaka area ), and most densely populated ( 28,410 per s...