The city of Putrajaya was established in 1995 as Malaysia's new administrative center and was later declared a federal territory. The city was built to be “a laboratory for a new form of electronic government” using new technology, according to The New York Times.
Putrajaya, Malaysia
The metropolis was built to be the “smart garden city” with a focus on sustainability. It has a large green space and many technological innovations.
The youngest city in America is Provo, Utah, where the average age of Americans living there is 25 years. Notably, much of the population of Provo consists of college students at Brigham Young University and the families of academics and staffers of the university.
The resulting City of Jurupa Valley was 43.5 square miles and, originally, home to approximately 88,000. Jurupa Valley officially became the youngest city in the United States on July 1, 2011.
Saudi Arabia is building The Line, a new city enclosed by mirrored walls The futuristic, walled city in the desert will have a mirrored facade and will use renewable energy. Known as The Line, it will be taller than the Empire State Building and only about 220 yards wide.
If you want to visit the town of Baarle, head on over to northern Belgium ... or the southern tip of the Netherlands. The town straddles an international border, with half of it belonging to the Dutch and the other half to the Belgians.
Mediterranean and Mesopotamia
The earliest known city is Çatalhöyük, a settlement of some 10,000 people in southern Anatolia that existed from approximately 7400 BCE to 5200 BCE. Hunting, agriculture and animal domestication all played a role in the society of Çatalhöyük.
Jericho, Palestine
A small city with a population of 20,000 people, Jericho, which is located in Palestine, is believed to be the oldest city in the world.
A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.
The first cities appeared thousands of years ago in areas where the land was fertile, such as the cities founded in the historic region known as Mesopotamia around 7500 B.C.E., which included Eridu, Uruk, and Ur.
If you're the firstborn child, your birth order would be referred to as the oldest child. If you're the second born, you're a middle child—however, there can be multiple middle kids in a family. If you're the last sibling to be born, you're the youngest child or the baby of the bunch.
At the heart of Birmingham's steady growth lies a thriving young community. As the youngest city in Europe, with 40% of its population under the age of 25 and a graduate retention rate of 46%, Birmingham offers ample career opportunities for Millennials and Generation Z.
Cities will continue to expand, with more skyscrapers being built as millions head to large cities for employment and career prospects. Climate change will also have a huge impact, as many will be forced out of coastal towns due to flooding. It's possible that one billion people could be displaced by 2050.
Vatican City is the smallest city in the world, but it's bursting with activity for locals and tourists alike.
The dream of El Dorado, a lost city of gold, led many a conquistador on a fruitless trek into the rainforests and mountains of South America. But it was all wishful thinking. The "golden one" was actually not a place but a person - as recent archaeological research confirms.
People have been coming to Bombay for 300 years, hoping to make their fortune. But in their search for gold many have died. Their bodies were laid in a place known as Sonapur, which also means 'the city of gold' since, according to an Indian saying, to die is to be turned to gold.
Sumerian can be considered the first language in the world, according to Mondly. The oldest proof of written Sumerian was found on the Kish tablet in today's Iraq, dating back to approximately 3500 BC.
Peshawar is the capital and the largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Peshawar's history dates back to at least 539 BCE, which makes it the oldest city in Pakistan, also one of the oldest cities in South Asia.
The name city is given to certain urban communities by virtue of some legal or conventional distinction that can vary between regions or nations. In most cases, however, the concept of city refers to a particular type of community, the urban community, and its culture, known as “urbanism.”
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History of the concept
Andrew J. Woods's 1974 calculation of the geographical center of all land surfaces on Earth: Kırşehir Turkey.