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Chenghai (Chinese: 澄海; pinyin: Chénghǎi; postal: Tenghai; Teochew: Thěng Hài) is a district of the city of Shantou, GuangdongProvince, China.
Located at the Han River Delta in the southeast part of Guangdong Province, Chenghai spans from 116°41' to 116°54' E longitude and 23°23' to 23°38' N latitude. Chenghai is an important transportation hub of the area around east Guangdong, the southeast part of Fujian and south Jiangxi Province, which is known as the "Gateway of East Guangdong". The total area of this district is 345.23 square kilometres

Chenghai


Dubai (/duːˈbaɪ/ doo-BY; Arabic: دبي‎ Dubay, Gulf Arabic: Arabic pronunciation: [dʊˈbɑj]) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).[5] On the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf, it is the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the country.[6][7][8]
Dubai is a global city and business hub of the Middle East.[9] It is also a major global transport hub for passengers and cargo.[10]Oil revenue helped accelerate the development of the city, which was already a major mercantile hub, but Dubai's oil reserves are limited and production levels are low: today, less than 5% of the emirate's revenue comes from oil.[11] A growing centre for regional and international trade since the early 20th century, Dubai's economy today relies on revenues from trade, tourism, aviation, real estate, and financial services.[12][13][14][15]
Dubai has attracted world attention through large construction projects and sports events, in particular the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. As of 2012, Dubai was the most expensive city in the Middle East.[16][17] In 2014, Dubai's hotel rooms were rated as the second most expensive in the world.

Dubai


Rio de Janeiro , souvent désignée simplement sous le nom de Rio, est la deuxième plus grande ville du Brésil après São Paulo. Située au sud-est du pays, elle est la capitale de l'État de Rio de Janeiro. Avec ses 6,1 millions d'habitants intra-muros (communément appelés Cariocas, la variante Carioques existant aussi en français) et 12,62 millions dans l'aire urbaine, Rio de Janeiro est l'une des métropoles les plus importantes du continent américain.
Elle est mondialement connue pour son carnaval, ses plages (Copacabana, Leblon et Ipanema) ainsi que sa statue du Christ Rédempteur au sommet du Corcovado. Elle fut capitale du Royaume-Uni de Portugal, du Brésil et des Algarves, à la suite de la fuite de la cour portugaise lors de l'invasion des troupes napoléoniennes (1808-1821), puis de l'Empire du Brésil (1822-1889), de la República Velha (1889-1930), de l’Estado Novo (1937-1945) et du début de la Deuxième République jusqu'en 1960.
La ville a accueilli les Journées mondiales de la jeunesse 2013, les finales des Coupes du monde de football de 1950 et de 2014 et enfin, en 2016, les Jeux olympiques d'été.
Rio de Janeiro désigne à l'origine la baie de Guanabara, découverte le  par Gaspar de Lemos et Gonçalo Coelho3, capitaines de la flotte de l'explorateur portugais Pedro Álvares Cabral, découvreur du Brésil.
Selon certains historiens4, le nom initial était Ria de Janeiro « baie de janvier », puis une confusion se produisit entre le mot ria, qui à l'époque pouvait désigner une baie ou un bras de mer, et rio « rivière ». Par la suite, le nom de la baie était fixé sous la forme Rio de Janeiro « rivière de janvier ». Selon d'autres, c'est Amerigo Vespucci qui, lors de son 3e voyage d'exploration en Amérique du Sud aurait pris la baie de Guanabara pour l'embouchure d'un fleuve auquel il attribua le nom du mois5,6.
Les habitants de la ville sont des « cariocas », venant du tupi7 et signifiant « maison des hommes blancs », contraction des mots kara’iwa, « hommes blancs » et oka, « maison ». Les habitants de l'État de Rio de Janeiro, sont eux des « fluminenses ».

Rio de Janeiro

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Agadir  is a major city in Morocco. Agadir is located on the shore of the Atlantic Ocean near the foot of the Atlas Mountains, just north of the point where the Sus River flows into the ocean and 316 miles (509 km) south of Casablanca. It is the capital of the Agadir Ida-U-Tanan Prefecture and of the Sus-Massa economic region. The majority of its inhabitants speak Tashelhit Berber—a variety of the Berber language.

History

ecorded on Agadir before the 12th century.

In the 2nd century AD, the historian Polybius referred to North Africa on the Atlantic, a place called cap Rhysaddir, that may have been located near Agadir but its location is still under debate.
The oldest cartographic mention of Agadir is on a map from 1325: at the approximate location of the modern city there was an indication of a place called Porto Mesegina, after the name of a Berber tribe already mentioned in the 12th century, the Mesguina, that is to say the Ksima.
At the end of the medieval period, Agadir was a town of some notoriety. The name itself, Agadir al-harba, was attested to for the first time in 1510.
In 1505, the Portuguese, who were already installed on the Moroccan coast, founded a trading post and a fort at the foot of the hill to the sea, Santa Cruz do Cabo de Aguer on the site of the now-vanished neighborhood of Founti (named after the Portuguese word fonte meaning fountain) under a governor.
Quickly, the Portuguese were exposed to the hostility of the tribes of the region. From 1530, they were blockaded in Santa Cruz. Portuguese weakness showed itself on 12 March 1541 when Sherif Saâdien Mohammed ash-Sheikh captured the fortress of Santa Cruz de Aguer. Six hundred Portuguese survivors were taken prisoner, including the governor, Guterre de Monroy, and his daughter, Dona Mecia. The captives were redeemed by the holy men mostly from Portugal. Dona Mecia, whose husband was killed during the battle, became the wife of Sheikh Mohammed ash-Sheikh but died in childbirth in 1544. In the same year, Mohammed ash-Sheikh released the Governor Guterre de Monroy, whom he had befriended.

Culture

The Timitar festival, a festival of Amazigh and music from around the world, has been held in Agadir every summer since its inception in July 2004.
The Morocco Movement association is involved in the arts and organizes concerts, exhibitions and meetings in the visual arts, design, music, graphic design, photography, environment and health
Other cultural events in Agadir are:
  • Noiz Makerz concert of urban music.
  • Breaking South national break-dancing championship
  • International Documentary Film Festival in November (FIDADOC)
  • Film Festival for immigration
  • International Festival of University Theatre of Agadir
  • Concert for Tolerance (November)
  • Festival of Laughter
  • International Salon of Art of Photography (Clubphoto d'Agadir)

    Education

    The city of Agadir has a university: the University Ibn Zuhr which includes a Faculty of Science, Faculty of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, and the multi-disciplined Faculty of Ouarzazate.
    There are also establishments of higher education such as:
    • the National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA)
    • the National School of Business and Management (ENCG)
    • the Graduate School of Agadir technology (ESTA).
    There is an international French school: the French School of Agadir and also public schools: Youssef Ben Tachfine School, Mohammed Reda-Slaoui School, and the Al-Idrissi Technical College.
    There is a range of highschools:
    • Groupe Scolaire Paul Gauguin Agadir (CLOSED in 2014)
    • Groupe Scolaire LE DEFI
    • Lycée Lala Meryem Agadir
    • Lycée Qualifiant Youssef Ben Tachfine
    • Lycée Technique Al Idrissi
    • Lycée Al Qalam
    • Lycée Al Hanane
    • Lycée Français d'Agadir
    • Lycée Anoual
    • Lycée Zerktouni
    • Lycée Mohamed Derfoufi
    • Lycée Bader Elouefaq



AGADIR

Los Angeles officially the City of Los Angelesand often known by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in California, the second most populous city in the United States, after New York City, and the third most populous city in North America. With an estimated population of nearly four million, Los Angeles is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of Southern California. The city is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic diversity, Hollywood and the entertainment industry, and its sprawling metropolis. Los Angeles is the largest 

city on the West Coast of North America


Los Angeles is one of the most substantial economic engines within the United States, with a diverse 

economy in a broad range of professional and cultural fields. Los Angeles is also famous as the home of Hollywood, a major center of the world entertainment industry. A global city, it has been ranked 6th in the Global Cities Index and 9th in the Global Economic Power Index. The Los Angeles metropolitan area also has a gross metropolitan product of $1.044 trillion (as of 2017), making it the third-largest in the world, after the Tokyo and New York metropolitan areas. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and will host the event for a third time in 2028. The city also hosted the Miss Universe pageant twice, in 1990 and 2006, and was one of 9 American cities to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup and one of 8 to host the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup, hosting the final matchfor both

Geography

The city of Los Angeles covers a total area of 502.7 square miles (1,302 km2), comprising 468.7 square miles (1,214 km2) of land and 34.0 square miles (88 km2) of water. The city extends for 44 miles (71 km) longitudinally and for 29 miles (47 km) latitudinally. The perimeter of the city is 342 miles (550 km).
Los Angeles is both flat and hilly. The highest point in the city proper is Mount Lukens at 5,074 ft (1,547 m),located at the northeastern end of the San Fernando Valley. The eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains stretches from Downtown to the Pacific Ocean and separates the Los Angeles Basin from the San Fernando Valley. Other hilly parts of Los Angeles include the Mt. Washington area north of Downtown, eastern parts such as Boyle Heights, the Crenshaw district around the Baldwin Hills, and the San Pedro district.
Surrounding the city are much higher mountains. Immediately to the north lie the San Gabriel Mountains, which is a popular recreation area for Angelenos. Its high point is Mount San Antonio, locally known as Mount Baldy, which reaches 10,064 feet (3,068 m). Further afield, the highest point in the Greater Los Angeles area is San Gorgonio Mountain, with a height of 11,503 feet (3,506 m).
The Los Angeles River, which is largely seasonal, is the primary drainage channel. It was straightened and lined in 51 miles (82 km) of concrete by the Army Corps of Engineers to act as a flood control channel. The river begins in the Canoga Park district of the city, flows east from the San Fernando Valley along the north edge of the Santa Monica Mountains, and turns south through the city center, flowing to its mouth in the Port of Long Beach at the Pacific Ocean. The smaller Ballona Creek flows into the Santa Monica Bay at Playa del Rey.

 

Los Angeles

Amazonas 

Brazilian state


Amazonas is named after the Amazon River, and was formerly part of the Spanish Empire's Viceroyalty of Peru, a region called Spanish Guyana. It was settled by the Portuguese moving northwest from Brazil in the early 18th century and incorporated into the Portuguese empire after the Treaty of Madrid in 1750. It became a state under the First Brazilian Republic in 1889.
  Is a state of Brazil, located in the North Region in the northwestern corner of the country. It is the largest Brazilian state by area and the 9th largest country subdivision in the world, and is greater than the areas of Uruguay, Paraguay, and Chile combined. Mostly located in the Southern Hemisphere, it is the third largest country subdivision in the Southern Hemisphere after the Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland. It would be the sixteenth largest country in land area, slightly larger than Mongolia. Neighbouring states are (from the north clockwise) Roraima, Pará, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, and Acre. It also borders the nations of Peru, Colombia and Venezuela. This includes the Departments of Amazonas, Vaupés and Guainía in Colombia, as well as the Amazonas state in Venezuela, and the Loreto Region in Peru.
Demographics
The chief commercial cities are Barcelos, Benjamin Constant, Eirunepe, Itacoatiara, Lábrea, Manacapuru, Manicoré, Parintins, and Tefé.
Manaus is the capital and largest city in the Amazonas State.
The state achieved a very great population growth in the early 20th century, due to the golden period of rubber, and after installation of the Industrial Pole of Manaus, in the 1960s. The state still maintains population rates above the national average. In the 1950s the state had a population growth of 3.6% per year, while Brazil has maintained a growth of 3.2%. In the period between the years 1991 and 2000, Amazon grew by 2.7% per annum while the national average remained at 1.6%. For 2018, the estimate is 4,080,611 inhabitants.
The composition of Amazonian population by gender shows that for every 100 female residents of the state there are 96 men; this small imbalance between the sexes is because women have a life expectancy of eight years higher than that of men. However, the migration to the state is mostly male.
The capital, Manaus is the largest city in the northern region, with about 2,145,444 inhabitants. 52% of the state's population lives in the city.
Amazonas is the second largest precinct in northern Brazil, with 2,428,098 voters,according to the Superior Electoral Court.
Urbanization: 77.6% (2006); Population growth: 3.3% (1991–2000); Houses: 819,000 (2006).
The last PNAD (National Research for Sample of Domiciles) census revealed the following numbers: 2,489,000 Brown (Multiracial) people (74.3%), 703,000 White people (21.0%), 144,000 Black people (4.3%), 13,000 Asian or Amerindian people (0.4%).
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Amazonas Brazilian state

São Paulo

Having the largest economy by GDP in Latin America and the Southern Hemisphere, the city is home to the São Paulo Stock Exchange. Paulista Avenue is the economic core of São Paulo. The city has the 11th largest GDP in the world, representing alone 10.7% of all Brazilian GDP and 36% of the production of goods and services in the state of São Paulo, being home to 63% of established multinationals in Brazil, and has been responsible for 28% of the national scientific production in 2005. With a GDP of US$477 billion, the São Paulo city alone would have ranked 26th globally compared with countries by 2017 estimates. São Paulo (/ˌsaʊ ˈpaʊloʊ/; Portuguese pronunciation: [sɐ̃ʊ̯̃ ˈpaʊ̯lʊ ] (About this soundlisten)) is a municipality in the Southeast Region of Brazil. The metropolis is an alpha global city (as listed by the GaWC) and the most populous city in Brazil, the Western Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere, besides being the largest Portuguese-speaking city in the world. The municipality is also the Earth's 11th largest city proper by population. The city is the capital of the surrounding state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest state in Brazil. It exerts strong international influences in commerce, finance, arts and entertainment.The name of the city honors the Apostle, Saint Paul of Tarsus. The city's metropolitan area, the Greater São Paulo, ranks as the most populous in Brazil and the 12th most populous on Earth. The process of conurbation between the metropolitan areas located around the Greater São Paulo (Campinas, Santos, Sorocaba and the Paraíba Valley) created the São Paulo .

History

The region of modern-day São Paulo, then known as Piratininga plains around the Tietê River, was inhabited by the Tupi people, such as the Tupiniquim, Guaianas, and Guarani. Other tribes also lived in areas that today form the metropolitan region.
The region was divided in Caciquedoms (chiefdoms) at the time of encounter with the Europeans. The most notable Cacique was Tibiriça, known for his support for the Portuguese and other European colonists. Among the many indigenous names that survive today are Tietê, Ipiranga, Tamanduateí, Anhangabaú, Piratininga, Diadema, Cotia, Itapevi, Barueri, Embu-Guaçu etc..

Geography

Jaraguá Peak is the highest point in the city, at 1,135 metres (3,724 ft).[25]
Cantareira State Park, part of the Green Belt Biosphere Reserve
São Paulo is located in Southeastern Brazil, in southeastern São Paulo State, approximately halfway between Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro. The city is located on a plateau located beyond the Serra do Mar(Portuguese for "Sea Range" or "Coastal Range"), itself a component of the vast region known as the Brazilian Highlands, with an average elevation of around 799 metres (2,621 ft) above sea level, although being at a distance of only about 70 kilometres (43 mi) from the Atlantic Ocean. The distance is covered by two highways, the Anchieta and the Imigrantes, (see "Transportation" below) that roll down the range, leading to the port city of Santos and the beach resort of Guarujá. Rolling terrain prevails within the urbanized areas of São Paulo except in its northern area, where the Serra da Cantareira Range reaches a higher elevation and a sizable remnant of the Atlantic Rain Forest. The region is seismically stable and no significant seismic activity has ever been recorded.

Educational institutions

The universities and colleges include:
  • Universidade de São Paulo (USP) (University of São Paulo);
  • Insper Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa (Insper-SP) (Insper Institute of Education and Research);
  • INPG Business School;
  • Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing – ESPM) (Superior School of Advertising and Marketing)
  • Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (MACKENZIE-SP) (Mackenzie Presbyterian University)
  • Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) (Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo)
  • Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de São Paulo (IFSP) (São Paulo Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology);
  • Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp) (São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho);
  • Faculdade de Tecnologia de São Paulo (FATEC) (São Paulo Technological College);
  • Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP) (Federal University of São Paulo);
  • Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo(University of Fine Arts of São Paulo);
  • Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes (UMC) (University of Mogi das Cruzes);
  • Universidade Paulista (UNIP) (Paulista University);
  • Universidade São Judas Tadeu (USJT) (São Judas Tadeu University/"São Judas University");
  • Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM-SP) (Superior School of Advertising and Marketing);
  • Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV-SP) (Getúlio Vargas Foundation);
  • Fundação Escola de Comércio Álvares Penteado (FECAP) (School of Commerce Alvares Penteado Foundation);
  • Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) (Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation);
  • Universidade Anhembi Morumbi (Anhembi Morumbi University);
  • Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU) (UMC, United Metropolitan Colleges);
  • Instituto Brasileiro de Mercado de Capitais (Ibmec-SP) (Brazilian Capital Market Institute);
Some pictures OF  São Paulo


São Paulo

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