Post your city, and some interesting facts about it

Post your city, and some interesting facts about it.

>Sudbury, (Northern) Ontario, Canada

>largest city in Northern Ontario (165 000 pop.)
>largest city in Ontario by land area
>second-tallest structure in the country, and the tallest chimney in the hemisphere, the Inco Superstack (380m | 1 250ft)
>second-largest known impact crater on Earth, the Sudbury Basin
>former geological training ground for the Apollo missions

We also have some of the highest rates of drinking, smoking, drug use, and sex toy purchases in the entire country. Sudbury was rated the happiest city in Canada a few years back.

Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil

>Capital of Brazil
>Planned city inaugurated in 1960 just to be the capital, has it's unique architecture and urbanization
>9th highest HDI in the country (0,824)
>It's central region is a patrimony protected by UNESCO
>In the central region, the buildings can't have more than 6 floors (defined by a law), with the exception of the downtown.
>Has a huge green area and it has the most expensive square meter in the country

Norway, Rogaland, Haugesund

>second largest city in district

>poor af because of the kommune invested in terra shares and got scamed (this only effects primary school and elderly care)

>first the seat of the norwegian king fairhair (pic related it is his grave)

>then the norwegian center for hansiatic trade

>then one if norways fishimg centers which produced herring and more

>earned money from herring and became rich

>rich people then scammed insurance companies during ww1

>used scam money to build the majestic pink mayor house awared the prettiest by nirwegian gov

>now place between major cities like bergen and stavanger

I like it here

Venice, Veneto, Italy

>everyday there are more tourists than inhabitants walking in its streets

>St. Mark's bell tower was completely re-built in 1912 because 10 years before it collapsed

>1/5 of the city is occupied by the Arsenale, the place where Venice build its fleet used to defeat the T*urks in Lepanto, 1571

>There are more than 417 bridges

>There are more than 84 bell towers

>Its flag is the only one in the world with the word "Peace" written in it

>The whole city is an UNESCO protected site

>One of the world's most expensive city to live in

>Venice is the most copied city in the world

Dublin, Ireland

>Got it's name from people mispronouncing the original Irish name
>has the widest road in Europe
>Ireland's Capital
>Uh...something about the Easter Rising

Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul - Brazil
>has a nice name

Forgot the pic

Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands.

>gained city right in 1259

>topographical center of the country, The x and y 0 Points of the dutch grid system are actually in the city's church tower.

>3 meters above sea level

>called boulder-city because of a 9 ton boulder that was dragged into the city by 400 people because of a bet between two landowners in 1661

>had concentration camp

>has one of the only medieval combined land-and water gates in europe (koppelpoort)

...

>proud of a structure designed to pump poison in the air you breathe
sudbury is a fucking shithole

>Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

>It is NOT Toronto and doesn't deserve to be thrown in with them

>lille/risjel, french flanders, France

>Largest city in northern france, birthplace of based De gaulle

>used to be the industrial heart of france til neoliberalism fucked everything up

>Vauban fortified city with remnans of the fortifications everywhere

>crossroad town, close to every major city by train (london, paris, amsterdam and koln at 1h , brussels at 30min)

>nowaday a student town filled to the brim with sandniggers and leftist politicians

forgot pic

Helsinki
>capital
>only real city
>only city that isn't just 70s commieblocks
>too many niggers
>too many fags
>easy grills
>expensive

>London, Ontario, Canada
>11th largest city in Canada
>Home town of Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams and Justin Bieber.
>Home of General Dynamics Land Systems, high production city for LAV III armoured vehicles for the military, used by countries like USA and New Zealand
>Home of Western University, Canada's 9th rated University
>Nicknamed The Forest City because fucking trees everywhere, sure is fun in the fall when you have to rake every 3 minutes
>Have a river called the Thames going through it, because English settlers are unoriginal


Not much interesting to go on here.

Ceuta
> No Morocco

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England

>originally settled by the romans and called Pons Aelius
>a new castle was build on the roman fort and named Novum Castellum or Newcastle in 1080
>BTFO the scots in the civil war and was given the motto "Fortiter Defendit Triumphans"
>major mining and ship building hub in the early 20th century
>fucked over by maggie thatcher and is now one of the poorer places in Britain
>mainly call centres, dolewallers and potential millitary recruits nowadays
>MTV made Geordie shore a thing recently

Flagstaff, AZ
>Pluto was discovered here
>Also its moon Charon
>In the largest ponderosa pine forest in the world
>used to be a lumber town, now just full of hippies and college kids
>70-120 trains go through here every day
>Part of Forrest Gump was filmed here
>Apollo astronauts trained for the moon landing here, too, in the cinder pits just NE of town.

Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.

>Known as the "Mile High City", Exactly one mile (5280ft/1.609km) above sea level
>Because of the altitude, alchohal is more potent, and balls fly further.
>In 1976, Denver declined an offer to host the Winter Olympics, the only city to do so.
>The cheeseburger was first trademarked in Denver (1935)
>Denver brews the most beer out of any city in the U.S.
>Purina rated Denver the healthiest city for pets
>It wasn't built on a road, railroad, or navigable body of water, settlers were attracted to the gold
>The Denver mint is the largest producer of coins in the world
>Denver International Airport is the largest (land area) airport in the U.S.

Red Rocks is in Morrison

West Palm Beach, Florida

>retired millionaires have a home on the island
>Trump lives on the island
>island is off limits on weekends when Trump is here
>city if full of dindus and daily black on black crime
>regular people live out in the suburbs

yeah, but the city of denver owns it

That's a really neat looking city, toothpaste.

This thread is aesthetic as fuck. I live in Chicago, so I'm not gonna post a picture

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

>Largest city in Australia
>Population of more then 4 million
>Centre Point Tower is the tallest building in Sydney
>Largest community of immigrants in Australia, (Much of the city is Asian)
>Very expensive
>Bondi beach is found in Sydney
>It's a pretty nice place

Toronto, Ontario, Canada
>Largest city in Ontario
>Capital of Ontario
>5th largest city in NA
>Probably the only city most burgers and others know, besides Vancouver I guess
>CN Tower (used to be the tallest tower in the world, now its the third largest I believe)
>Lot of films made here, usually as a stand in for Chicago since we're pretty much clones
>We had the longest street in the world (Yonge Street)
>Home of Drake, The Weeknd, Jim Carrey, Mike Myers, even Keanu Reeves was raised somewhere here
>Multicultural shithole right now
>Literally Pakistan/India/Little China

>Houston was founded on August 30, 1836 by brothers Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen on land near the banks of Buffalo Bayou.
>Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation (trailing only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), and is the largest in the southern U.S. and Texas.
>The Houston-Galveston-Brazoria Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (Houston CMSA) consists of eight counties: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller
>The Houston CMSA covers 8,778 square miles, an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts but larger than New Jersey.
Houston is 43 feet above sea level
>The three-airport system served 55 million passengers in 2015, including over 10 million international travelers.
>If Houston were an independent nation, it would rank as the world's 30th largest economy
>Houstonians eat out more than residents of any other city. While here you can choose to indulge in one of the more than 11,000 restaurants ranging from award-winning and upscale to memorable deli shops.
>Houston has a Theater District second only to New York City with its concentration of seats in one geographic area. Located downtown, the 17-block Theater District is home to eight performing arts organizations with more than 12,000 seats.
>More than 90 languages are spoken throughout the Houston area.
>Houston is home to the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. The world's largest livestock show and rodeo attracts more than 2.2 million visitors each year.
>Houston has among the youngest populations in the nation. The city has the third-largest Hispanic and third-largest Mexican population in the United States
>Houston is home to the Texas Medical Center, the largest medical center in the world, with a local economic impact of $10 billion. More than 52,000 people work within its facilities, which encompass 21 million square feet. Altogether 4.8 million patients visit them each year.

Finland, Lahti (lahti literally means bay or cove)

>One of the biggest cities in Finland (119 377 pop.)
>Our most noticeable landmarks are our two radio towers that German Lehmann & Co came to build for us in 1928.
>Our refugee containment facility is going to be moving to somewhere else, soon.
>Lahti is hosting some kind of skiing world championships 2017 right now.
>There is couple of war memorials with with huge iron crosses and swastikas (they may have side effect of scaring cucks away)
>My home is not historically known or important at all but it still has interesting back story.
>My home is about 100 years old and it was designed to be small cult church by two women.
>When my parents were fixing our roof they found old hat, empty perfume bottle and news paper dating back to 1926 and it had an article about assassination attempt on Mussolini.
>One of our elementary schools was hospital during the WW2,
When I was in that school, I got some extra hours because I was bad at literature. Those extra hours were spend in small class room with couple of other kids and when we behaved well, we got a tour to the attic with a huge swastika painted on the wall.

damn that looks comfy