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What's The City You Live In?
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Post #1 post Sep 27 2007, 08:00 AM
Lets start an interesting topic.

post here the name of your City/town, Country, any specialties of the city and the population of your city.

This will help us to learn more about new places on the earth and share the knowledge.

Let me begin with mine.

City : Tuticorin
Country : India
Specialties : Port City - India's 3rd Largest Container Hub, known as Pearl City, One of the oldest cities in India, former dutch, Portuguese colony.
Population : 600,000
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Post #2 post Sep 27 2007, 11:44 AM
Okay, I'll continue with your topic here.

City : Jakarta
Country : Indonesia
Specialties : Capital city of Indonesia, we have so large of communities here.
Population : (largest in my country-I dunno though)
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Post #3 post Sep 27 2007, 02:22 PM
City : Brezno
Country : Slovakia
Specialties : Brezno is the entry centre into contiguous areas of travel industry and their holiday centres as Tale, Chopok and Certovica offering excellent snow conditions.
Population : Don't know but something about 5000 people here smile.gif
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Post #4 post Sep 27 2007, 03:50 PM
City : Southfield
Country : United States
Specialties :
QUOTE("Information from MSN Encarta")
Southfield, city, Oakland County, southeastern Michigan, on the Rouge River, a suburb of Detroit; incorporated as a city 1958. It is a commercial and office center. Lawrence Institute of Technology (1932) is here. A noted historic district, “The Burgh,” contains several old buildings and a museum of fire fighting. The city was laid out in 1817 and is thought to have been named for its location in Bloomfield Township, from which it was separated in the early 1830s. smile.gif

Population : The U.S. Census Berau's 2005 Estimate is around 76,818. xd.gif
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Post #5 post Sep 27 2007, 06:03 PM
City : Liverpool
Country : England, UK.
Specialties : Only city in the world to contain two Cathedrals, home of the "Three Graces" The Beatles, and the Second Largest Chinese Arch outside of China, originally one of the worlds most important ports, to be joint European Capital of Culture in 2008. Played a large part in the Triangular Slave Trade. HOME OF THE LAMB BANANA! (Which is REALLY cool.)
Population : At the time of the 2001 census Liverpool's total population was registered at 439,473.

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Post #6 post Sep 27 2007, 07:02 PM
City : Edison
Country : United States
Specialties : Edison was ranked the 28th most livable small city in America by Money Magazine and the 2nd in New Jersey in 2006 in MONEY Magazine's "Best Places To Live"
Population : Est. 99,523 in 2006
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Post #7 post Sep 27 2007, 07:12 PM
I live in a town, the nearest City I live near is the capital of my county (Cheshire), Chester. The next nearest is Liverpool, then Manchester.

Town : Runcorn
Country : England
Specialties :
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Runcorn is an industrial town and cargo port within the borough of Halton in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England
Population :
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In mid-2004 its population was estimated to be 61,252


Wikipedia Page for my town.

Some interesting trivia:

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Edward John Smith (1850–1912), captain of the Titanic, purchased a retirement home in Higher Runcorn but never lived there because of his death aboard the Titanic.
The singer Nicola Roberts (1985– ) from the British girl band, 'Girls Aloud,' also comes from Runcorn.

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Post #8 post Sep 28 2007, 12:36 AM
My Home town

City Blenheim
Country New Zealand
Specialties Wine, sunny days, Relaxed lifestyle
Population 25,000
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Post #9 post Sep 29 2007, 12:13 AM
City : Minneapolis (I actually live in brooklyn park, which is a suburb about 15 minutes away, close enough)
Country : United States
Specialties : The mall of America is pretty close by downtown. Other than that it is just a nice city to walk around in.
Population : about 3.5 million
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Post #10 post Sep 29 2007, 09:05 AM
I don't actually live anywhere near a big city, or a small city for that matter tongue.gif The closest I get is a medium sized town.

Town: Aylesbury
Country: England
Specialities: Used for most of the exterior shots in Judge John Deed, lots of great bands used to play there, and the English Bridge Union is based just outside Tesco.
Population: About 69,000
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