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Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...
In antiquity the city was known under the ancient name Lychnidos. probably meaning "City of Light" Perth , Western Australia, became known worldwide as the "City of Light" when city's residents lit their house lights and streetlights as American astronaut John Glenn passed overhead while orbiting the Earth on Friendship 7 in 1962.
Buffalo is the county seat of Erie County, and the second most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, after New York City. Originating around 1789 as a small trading community inhabited by the Neutral Nation near the mouth of Buffalo Creek, the city, then a town, grew quickly after the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, with the city at ...
Negros Occidental (geographically only) Negros Island Region. City of Smiles. Came from introduction of the MassKara Festival, which is known as a "festival of smiles", in 1980 as a response to a socioeconomic crisis in that period. [ 7] Bacoor. Cavite. Calabarzon. Marching Band Capital of the Philippines.
Karachi University is the city's largest by number of students, number of departments & occupied land area. Karachi is home to several major public universities. Karachi's first public university's date from the British colonial era. The Sindh Madressatul Islam founded in 1885, was granted university status in 2012.
Medellín (/ ˌ m ɛ d ə ˈ l iː n / MED-ə-LEEN / ˌ m ɛ d eɪ ˈ (j) iː n / MED-ay-(Y)EEN; Spanish: [meðeˈʎin]), officially the Special District of Science, Technology and Innovation of Medellín (Spanish: Distrito Especial de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación de Medellín), is the second-largest city in Colombia after Bogotá, and the capital of the department of Antioquia.
Gas lamps gradually started replacing oil street lamps in the United States, beginning in the first quarter of the 19th century. [ 3] The first street in the world to be illuminated by gaslight was Pall Mall in London, starting in 1807. [ 1][ 5] The first US city to use gas street lights was Baltimore, starting in 1817. [ 4]
Las Vegas, [ a] often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County. The Las Vegas Valley metropolitan area is the largest within the greater Mojave Desert, and second-largest in the Southwestern United States. [ 6][ 7] Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort ...