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Fun Facts about Famous Cities:
– The entire name of Bangkok is written with 163 symbols – it is the longest city name in the world.
– The New York street network is the longest in the world. It exceeds 10 000 km.
– Honk Kong has the biggest number of Rolls-Royce cars per resident in the entire world.
– The real name of Los Angeles is spelled correctly as: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncula.
– There are almost 3 000 residents in Tokyo’s regions per m2 – it is the most densely populated area in the world.
– Situated at 4,150 meters above sea level, El Alto, Bolivia, is the highest city in the world.
– Jericho, Palestine, is the lowest city in the world, sitting at 258 meters (846 feet) below sea level.
– The world’s northernmost city with a population of more than 100,000 is Norilsk in Siberia.
– Ushuaia is commonly regarded as the southernmost city in the world.
– The coldest city is Yakutsk (Russia).
– Ahvaz (Iran) and the Kuwait city are the hottest cities on Earth.
– In the Chinese city of Chongqing, cell phone addicts have their own sidewalk lane.
– The Spanish city of Cartagena once declared independence and applied to become a US state.
– Barcelona is one of the worst places to drive in the world with an accident occurring every 19 seconds.
– New York’s Central Park is one of the world’s largest urban parks at 843 acres.
– There is a law in Paris which means that buildings cannot exceed 6 stories, so that everyone can get some sun.
– Berlin was the first place in Europe to have traffic lights.
– Istanbul is the only city in 2 continents; it is set over Asia and Europe.
– Amsterdam has more bikes than people, there are approximately 1 million of them.
– Before 1992 Barcelona didn’t have any beaches.
– Jericho is the oldest city in the world founded in 9600 BC.
– Manhattan was purchased from the native people in 1626 for the modern equivalent of US $1000.
– There are total 6100 streets in Paris.
– It took around 666 years to build the great Louvre in Paris.
29% of the pollution in San Francisco comes from China.
– San Francisco remained a part of Mexico City till the American Mexican war in 1948.
– The Irish coffee was actually invented in San Francisco.
– 1400 years ago, the first paper money was built in China.
– The Arabic meaning of Cairo is Al-Qahirah which means the Victorious.
– Constantinople was the former name of Istanbul.
– The Germans in Berlin consume 125 tons of sausages daily.
– Berlin has 1700 bridges; this makes it the city with more bridges than Venice.