metropolis
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Lagado is the capital metropolis of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa.
the capital or chief city of a country or region.
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Four thousand years ago Kerma, the capital of the kingdom of Kush, was a massive 'metropolis' , the first in sub-Saharan Africa.
he preferred the peaceful life of the countryside to the bustle of the 'metropolis'
Vancouver is a rare city - a 'metropolis' that pretty much has it all, yet avoids being bland, boring or smug.
I had expected to escape the bustle of the 'metropolis' and soak in the undisturbed beauty of nature.
This has the look of an inner London borough on a bright Saturday, a feeling of a village within a huge 'metropolis' .
It may be that what happens in half a dozen great conurbations mirrors life in the 'metropolis' .
Located far away from the hustle and bustle of a 'metropolis' , the choice of venue was well and truly acknowledged by all concerned.
Lagado is the capital 'metropolis' of Balnibari, the continent of the land of Laputa.
Ironically, the network which leads the girl away from her little village to the 'metropolis' does not figure anywhere.
A miniature village at the bottom of a Gorse Hill garden is fast evolving into a sprawling 'metropolis' .
A capitalist centre or 'metropolis' with a number of colonies or areas of interests was thus the norm.
At one end it bleeds into the 'metropolis' of Kansas City and at the other is farmland and small towns.
She was to buy a train ticket to Lanzhou, a polluted industrial 'metropolis' in northern China with a large addict population.
It was a rather dreary day outside, which really wasn't unusual in the busy 'metropolis' of San Francisco.
The modern 'metropolis' of Shanghai was once a small village facing the East China Sea.
The city formerly known as Saigon is a sprawling, bustling 'metropolis' in the south of Vietnam.
It had grown from a cluster of stone buildings to a high-tech 'metropolis' reaching kilometers in the air.
Here the small town atmosphere is intermixed with the comforts of a 'metropolis' .
It was closed off when communist rule was imposed in 1949 but is now regaining its reputation as a cosmopolitan 'metropolis' .
The child's cry of concern went on unheard, a faint whisper amidst the busy streets of a crowded 'metropolis' .
The water supply and underground water systems in Taipei are outdated for the modern 'metropolis' that is the nation's capital.
by the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a 'metropolis' with a population of nearly one million
They could have knock that sort of split but there does not seem to be one voice in favour of two county teams from the 'metropolis' .
The trio crashed through the dangling remains, now in the rough suburbs of the 'metropolis' .
Shanghai's amazing economic growth is promoting the city into a 'metropolis' .
The larger the 'metropolis' grows, the less coherent its image becomes.
Currently, 28 per cent of our population is urban, residing in 23 'metropolises' with a population of more than one million each, and five mega cities with a population of more than five million each.
I did not have high expectations about my trip before setting off because I thought Seoul would turn out to be a modern city comparable to other world 'metropolises' without any special features.
City centers, especially in the nation's biggest 'metropolises' , have become hosts to resurgent capital markets.
In its heyday, the urban sketch was a byproduct of the concurrent rise of newspapers and population growth in 'metropolises' .
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