Akademgorodok: Siberia’s Silicon Valley
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 3, 2018
Tucked away in a remote forest of birch and pine in the heart of Siberia, 3,000 km away from Moscow, at a place where winters are six months...
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Derbent: Russia’s Oldest City
Kaushik Patowary
Dec 1, 2017
Located on a narrow strip of land between the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus Mountains in the far western end of Eurasia, is the city of Derbe...
Sansha: A City That Includes Almost an Entire Ocean
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 5, 2015
On July 2012, China announced a new prefecture-level city called Sansha whose seat of administration lies on what it calls Yongxing Island, ...
The City of Batman, on Batman River in Batman Province
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 6, 2015
Unless you are Turkish, Batman can mean only one thing — the DC Comics superhero with a cool utility belt who lives in Gotham City. But if y...
Chan Chan: World’s Largest Adobe City
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 25, 2015
Located near the Pacific coast in the Peruvian region of La Libertad, 5 km west of Trujillo, Chan Chan was the largest Pre-Columbian city in...
The Sunken Pirate City of Port Royal
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 25, 2015
Port Royal was a city situated on the end of an 18-mile long sand spit known as the Palisadoes, at the mouth of the Kingston Harbour, in sou...
Istanbul, The City That Lies in Two Continents
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 16, 2014
Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey and the fifth-largest city in the world by population, is considered European, yet it occupies two diff...
Iquitos, World’s Largest City That Cannot Be Reached by Road
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 13, 2014
Iquitos is an important port city of the Amazon and Peru’s largest jungle town. It is located in the Amazon basin at the confluence of the N...
The Depressing Industrial City of Norilsk
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 21, 2014
Norilsk is an industrial city located in Krasnoyarsk Krai, in Russia. It is the northernmost city in the world with a population of 170,000 ...
Ashgabat: The City of White Marbles
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 7, 2014
Ashgabat is the capital of Turkmenistan and the country’s largest city. Ashgabat is a relatively young city having grown out of a village of...
Sao Paulo: The City With No Outdoor Advertisements
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 20, 2013
In September 2006, the mayor of São Paulo passed the so-called “Clean City Law" that outlawed the use of all outdoor advertisements, in...
The Incredible Mountain City of La Paz, Bolivia
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 25, 2012
La Paz whose full name is Nuestra Señora de La Paz is the administrative capital of Bolivia and the second largest city in the country (in p...
11 Oldest Continuously Inhabited Cities in the World
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2012
Ever since man learned to grow their own food and rear cattle, they have been living in permanent to semi-permanent settlements with certain...
