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Eindhoven. Eindhoven ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɛintˌɦoːvə (n)] ⓘ ;) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant, of which it is the largest municipality, and is also located in the Dutch part of the natural region the Campine.
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.
Athens, Greece. In one of his surviving fragments (fragment 76), the Greek lyricist poet Pindar wrote [ 1] of Athens: "City of light, with thy violet crown, beloved of the poets, thou art the bulwark of Greece." The climate of Attica is characterised by low humidity and a high percentage of dust in the air, which make sunsets display hues of ...
lyon.fr. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Lyon[ c] is the second largest city of France by urban area. [ d] It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, 391 km (243 mi) southeast of Paris, 278 km ...
Paris (French pronunciation: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of France.With an official estimated population of 2,102,650 residents in January 2023 [2] in an area of more than 105 km 2 (41 sq mi), [5] Paris is the fourth-largest city in the European Union and the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2022. [6]
Kaliningrad is a "green" city with many parks [ 66] and areas with many trees and lawns. Parks range from tiny city squares to massive parks. [citation needed] The Youth Recreation Park is one of the most popular parks in the city. [citation needed] The park was established in the 1920s–1930s in the English style.
alexandria.gov.eg. Alexandria ( / ˌælɪɡˈzændriə, - ˈzɑːn -/ AL-ig-ZA (H)N-dree-ə; [ 5] Arabic: الإسكندرية; [ a] Greek: Ἀλεξάνδρεια[ b], Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. It lies at the western ...
Cologne ( / kəˈloʊn / ⓘ kə-LOHN; German: Köln [kœln] ⓘ; Kölsch: Kölle [ˈkœlə] ⓘ) is the largest city of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with nearly 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and over 3.1 million people in the Cologne Bonn urban region.