1. Concepción and culture

Concepción stands out as a university city and a cultural reference point in the country.

1. Wrocław and culture

Wrocław, located in western Poland, is an academic and a dynamic business center with an economy increasingly based on new technologies and innovation.

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Wrocław, with a population of 641 607, is a city in western Poland. It’s an academic centre, with 22 institutions of higher learning and over 140,000 students.

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Manchester is the UK’s fifth city and one of 10 authorities which make up the Greater Manchester city region. It is a multicultural city with a rapidly growing population, predicted to exceed 600,000 by 2021.

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Cúcuta is home to about one million inhabitants, and it is not only a natural, but also a political and cultural border.

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Trois-Rivières, the second oldest French-speaking city in North America, was founded in 1634 and is the seat of the regional government. With a population of 138,134 in 2020, it is the ninth largest city in the province of Quebec.

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Bulawayo, with between 1 – 1.5 million inhabitants, is Zimbabwe’s second city. Bulawayo was influenced by many cultures and languages and became home to a rich diversity of minority cultural expressions due to migration.

Background

Escazú has a population of 56,509 (INEC 2011) and is located on the outskirts of San José, the capital of Costa Rica.

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Izmir is the third largest city of Turkey, located near the Mediterranean-Black Sea passage, opened to the Balkans, Europe and to the Middle East through Anatolia.