Kathmandu is the capital of Nepal and its largest city, with a population of around 1 million. Kathmandu is, and has historically been, the centre of Nepal's history, art, culture and economy.
Karachi is the most populous city in Pakistan, the capital of the Pakistani province of Sindh, and is considered the cultural, economic, philanthropic, educational, and political hub of the country.
Athens is the capital of Greece and the country’s largest city.
Throughout the 20th century, Paysandú was one of the few Departments that strongly embraced industrialization in Uruguay.
The city of Chefchaouen is a town of about 50,000 inhabitants, founded in 1471 by Mulay Ali Ben Rachid al-Alami.
Bolivia is a multicultural and multilingual country, and the city of La Paz is one of its richest expressions of cultural diversity.
Hamilton is the 10th largest city in Canada (550,000 people), situated between Toronto and Niagara Falls.
With a population of 279,284, the city is the eighth-largest in France, and is located within a greater metropolitan area of some 500,000.
Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania, with 400 000 inhabitants together with its District.
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.