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Santo André, is a municipality in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. It is home to over 700,000 people spread out over an area of 175,000 square kilometres.

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San José is the capital of Costa Rica. Comprised of 11 districts, it is the second-most densely populated area in the country, home to 6.9% of the total national population.

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The city of Donostia, or San Sebastian, is the capital of the Gipuzkoa region in Euskadi / Basque Country, Spain.

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Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania, with 400 000 inhabitants together with its District.

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Esch-sur-Alzette is the second-largest city of Luxembourg, with 35 000 residents. The steel crisis of the 1970s and Luxembourg’s subsequent rise to an international financial centre redistributed power in the country.

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Santa Maria da Feira is a medium-sized city, located 20km south of Porto, with a total area of 216 km2 and a population of 140.000 inhabitants.

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Pincourt is a town of about 15,000 inhabitants located on the outskirts of Montreal, in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges region.

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Larissa is the capital of the Thessaly region in Central Greece and its largest city, with a population of 147.000.

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The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires covers an area of ​​200 km² and has a population of approximately 3 million.

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