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Cities have played an instrumental role in defining human history. Great civilizations arose around cities while some of the greatest empires crumbled around them.
While some cities trace their origins to the earliest annals of human history there are others, which have been planned and built, completely in modern times to fulfill such purposes as establishing a new administrative capital or denoting a new zone of commercial activity. With growing industrialization and urbanization, cities continue to attract an increasing tide of human population be it from adjoining towns and villages or from areas further a field and even regions and countries far and wide. In the first half of the Twentieth Century the population of some of the world's great cities increased by as much as 250 per cent with Asian cities experiencing a growth three times than that of their European or American Counterparts. The growing swells of people migrating to some of the world's most populous cities have also resulted in the growth of suburbs or other adjoining urban centers of human activity.
The cities of the present-day world cannot be clubbed into any one class or category. There are those cities that form the commercial and business hubs of a country or region while there are others which are much quieter and planned centers of government and administration. There are cities that are renowned for their historical origins while there are others which represent the culture and identity of a people or region. There are also those cities that are simply havens for tourists while there are others which thrive solely on entertainment and showbiz. Some of the world's greatest cities fall into more than one of the above categories.
The World City Map shows the location of some of the most famous cities in the world including modern cities, commercial and financial centers, industrial cities, port cities, important world capitals, regional cities, cultural capitals, historical cities, cities of tourist importance, shopper's paradises, resort cities, and cities of education and university learning.
The cities of global importance as represented in the World Cities Map include Anchorage, Juneau, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Washington DC, Havana, Panama City, Mexico City, Acapulco, Caracas, Lima, Bogotá, Santiago, La Paz, Sao Paolo, Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires in the Americas; London, Edinburgh, Oxford, Cambridge, Dublin, Paris, Marseille, Nice, Brussels, Amsterdam, Lisbon, Madrid, Barcelona, Rome, Milan, Venice, Berne, Zurich, Geneva, Berlin, Frankfurt, Prague, Warsaw, Budapest, Vienna, Graz, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Athens, Istanbul, Kiev, St. Petersburg and Moscow in Europe, Casablanca, Tripoli, Cairo, Accra, Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Lagos, Mombassa, Dar es Salaam, Harare, Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and Port Louis in Africa; Ankara, Damascus, Amman, Dubai, Riyadh, Mecca, Beirut, Baghdad, Kuwait City, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Tehran, Kabul, Karachi, Islamabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, New Delhi, Chennai, Bengalooru, Colombo, Kathmandu, Lhasa, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Seoul, Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka, Nagoya, Taipei, Hong Kong, Macau, Manila, Jakarta, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Yangon, Bangkok, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City in Asia; and Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Darwin, Hobart, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch in Australia and New Zealand.
