Sentences with phrase «largest cities in the world»

And because 28 out of the 30 largest cities in the world today are in tropical climates, there will probably be a sequel soon.

Dhaka itself has a population of 15 million, and UNEP predicts that it will be the second largest city in the world by 2015.

Turkey has a larger and younger population than the UK, the population heavily concentrated into a few major cities like Istanbul, which has 14.6 m people and is the fifth largest city in the world.

Beijing, the capital of China is the home to some 21 million people making it the 3rd largest city in the world.

The sixth largest city in the world in 400 A.D., Teotihuacán was mysteriously abandoned 300 years later, centuries before the Aztec occupation.

Did you know that Istanbul is the 5th largest city in the world, and is larger than New York City (which is ranked # 21)?

In 2014, the City of Angels was listed as one of the most water - stressed large city in the world by The Nature Conservancy.

I know of it because I went to 87 % non-Caucasian Detroit and tried to work with others to create the first, and only, self - sustaining large city in the world.

Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, is expected to be the 12th largest city in the world by 2025 and has already displaced Cairo as the largest city on the continent.

Mount Vernon and Westchester County own and maintain 241 acres of playgrounds, parks, and recreational areas that produce a rural lifestyle on the brink of the second largest city in the world.

ICLEI will be joining with the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Project, which represents the largest cities in the world and just sponsored a climate change conference in São Paulo, to complete the protocol.

Like the Romans or the Jews before, they wandered through the wilderness, eventually reaching a giant lake in the mountains where they built Tenochtitlan — the largest city in the world at the time, now called Mexico City.

Why It Matters: With a population of more than 16 million, Beijing is one of the largest cities in the world, with an air quality problem to match.

He impressed with the imprint of the largest city in the world.

More than 8.5 million people live in New York City, making it one of the largest cities in the world.

A person has the ability to be isolated in their own little world even while working and living in the largest city in the world.

French Bulldogs are also the # 1 breed in New York, one of the largest cities in the world.

Catch a flight back to the largest city in the world.

From here, you can make your journey towards Iquitos — one of the largest cities in the world only reachable by river or air.

The decision was sudden, and at dawn, as the ferry floated towards one of the largest cities in the world, I could see the few lights still lit from the buildings twinkling like stars.

The largest city in the world north of the Arctic Circle, in the zone of the eternal frost and 630 mi / 1, 015 km north of St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Russia, is a port town and base for the Northern Fleet (submarines).

Teotihuacan was the largest pre-Columbia city in the Americas, with a population of approximately 125,000 people in the city core, making it one of the largest cities in the world between 1 and 500 AD.

To access Peru's northern Amazon Rainforest you will visit Iquitos, which is the largest city in the world unconnected to others by road.

Iquitos is also the largest city in the world unreachable by road, which means to access Iquitos you are likely to enter the region by air.

We landed in Lima at around 5 am on 2 April, and spent a few days exploring Peru's capital before catching an internal flight up to Iquitos, the largest city in the Peruvian rainforest and also the largest city in the world that is inaccessible by road.

Iquitos sits in the Amazon Rainforest and is the largest city in the world unreachable by road.

As the largest city in the world unreachable by road, to arrive in Iquitos you take a 40 minute flight from Lima, Peru's capital city.

Tokyo is the largest city in the world.

New York City is the largest city in the world to mandate carbon reductions of 80 % from 2005 levels by 2050.

Let's not forget that eight of the 10 largest cities in the world are near a coast.

Air pollution is already reducing life expectancy in northern China by five and a half years, and in India (whose capital, New Delhi, has the worst air pollution of any large city in the world) by 3.2 years.

Responding to public pressure from advocacy groups, Ex-Im Bank is no longer considering financing for a coal plant proposed to be built outside Bangladesh's capital city of Dhaka, one of the largest cities in the world.

Together with Motivate, we are the global bike share leader and a partner to governments and nonprofits in some of the largest cities in the world.

Beijing is the largest city in the world, with over 17 million people.

if you go looking for trouble you can find it (as with an large city in the world, including the u.s.) i will not travel to mexico city nor any of the boarder towns.

Should S - coin come to fruition, Seoul would become the largest city in the world to adopt its own digital cryptocurrency.

In fact, South Korea's capital city is looking to become one of the largest cities in the world with its own official cryptocurrency.

Following suit with various other cities around the globe, South Korea's capital city is looking to become one of the largest cities in the world with its own official cryptocurrency.

Interns in Shanghai will get to experience their placements in one of the fastest - growing and largest cities in the world — a place where breakneck development straddles traditional society.

Lagos, the largest city in Africa, is the country's business center and one of the 25 largest cities in the world.