Venice (Venezia) is a city in the northeast of Italy at the head of the Adriatic Sea and is the capital of the region of Veneto.

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London, capital of the United Kingdom and of England, is one of the great world cities, mentioned in the same breath as Paris, Tokyo and New York. Originally a Celtic town, it was settled by the Roman invaders who called it Londinium and used it as a port on the River Thames. The Thames runs right through the city and bisects it, north from south, although it is crossed by a number of bridges and tunnels, the most famous of which is the neo-Gothic Tower Bridge.

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York is a city in the north of England, on the River Ouse, near its confluence with the River Foss. Since Roman times, York has been the main city in the north of England. For the Romans it was a major military base, named Eboracum. Emperor Septimius Severus died there in 211 AD, and Constantius Chlorus, the father of Constantine I, died there in 306.

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Las Vegas is the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is sometimes called "Sin City" due to the popularity of legalized gambling locally, availability of alcoholic beverages any time of the day and night, various forms and degrees of adult entertainment

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The Republic of Seychelles is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, some 1,600 km east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar.

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Shanghai is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta.

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The capital city of Hungary and the country's principal industrial, commercial and transportation centre, Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the Danube river with the amalgamation in 1873 of right-bank Buda and Óbuda with Pest on the left (east) bank.

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Hong Kong is a Special Administrative Region and specially-administered division of China, and the main city on Hong Kong island is one of the richest places in the world.

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Eivissa or Ibiza is one of the Balearic Islands located in the Mediterranean Sea, and belonging to Spain. With Formentera, it is one of the two Illes Pitiüses. Major cities are Ibiza Town, Santa Eulària des Riu and San Antonio.

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Beijing is the capital city of the People's Republic of China. In China, the city has had many names. Between 1911 and 1949, it was known as Beiping or "Northern Peace". The name was changed because jing means "capital" and the Kuomintang government in Nanjing wanted to emphasize that Beijing was not the capital of China. Curiously, many maps of China from Taiwan still use the old name, although most people in Taiwan call the city Beijing.

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Paris is the capital and largest city of France, and the number one tourist destination in the world. The city is built on an arc of the river Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the right bank to the north and the smaller left bank in the south.

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Prague (Praha in Czech) is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated on the Vltava river, it contains approximately 1.2 million inhabitants. Nicknames for Prague have included "city of a hundred spires", "the golden city", "the Paris of the Twenties in the Nineties", the "mother of all cities", and "the heart of Europe".

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New York City (or NYC)--officially, "City of New York," and affectionately known as "The Big Apple"--is the largest city of the state of New York and in the United States, and by many measures, one of the most important cities in the world.

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Manchester is a city in Greater Manchester, in North West England. It is the centre of one of the largest conurbations in the United Kingdom.

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Kuala Lumpur is the largest city in Malaysia and the capital of the federation. Within Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur is almost always fondly abbreviated to KL.

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Abu Dhabi or Abu Zaby is the largest of the seven emirates that comprise the United Arab Emirates. Abu Dhabi is also a city of the same name that is the capital of the country, in north central UAE.

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Seoul, formerly called Hanseong or Hanyang, is the capital of South Korea, located in the north-west of the country, on the river Han.

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