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Caption 1
Jakarta in Indonesia
Parts of Jakarta have a
monthly car free day when
gymnastics, games, karate,
badminton, an on-street
library and musical
performances take over the
roads.
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Central Cairo and the
River Nile, Egypt
Greater Cairo is the largest
metropolitan area in the
Middle East and the Arab
world, and 15th largest in the
world.
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Moscow, Russia
Moscow is the capital and the
largest city in Russia, with
16.8 million inhabitants
within the greater urban
area. The Grand Palace of
the Kremlin was originally
the residence of the Russian
tsar.
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Pudong, China
Pudong is located on the
eastern bank of the
Huangpu River across from
the historic city centre of
Shanghai. Only constructed
since 1993, it is now a
major settlement and
business centre.
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The Shinjuku skyscrapers
and Mount Fuji, Tokyo,
Japan
The Greater Tokyo Area is
the most populous
metropolitan area in the
world.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rio de Janeiro is one of the
most visited cities in the
southern hemisphere and
the most visited destination
in Brazil by foreign tourists.
Its carnival is world famous.
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Times Square, New York,
USA
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Canary Wharf skyline
London, United Kingdom
This major commercial
intersection and
neighbourhood in Manhattan,
New York City is one of the
world's busiest pedestrian
junctions with approximately
330,000 people passing
through daily.
Canary Wharf contains
many of Europe's tallest
buildings, including the
second tallest in Great
Britain. It is a major
business district and one of
the United Kingdom's two
main financial centres.
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Beijing CBD, China
Beijing in northern China has
a population of more than 21
million and is the second
most populous city in the
world.
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Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City is one of the
most important financial
centres in the Americas with
an estimated population of
nearly 9 million people.
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Hanoi, Vietnam
Hanoi has been inhabited
since at least 3000BC. The
population was estimated at
7.7 million people in 2015.
Caption 12
Paris, France
This view of Paris shows the
Eiffel Tower and La Défense
business district. La Défense
is Europe's largest purposebuilt business district with
180,000 daily workers.
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Teaching notes
Image references
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© Morio, 2009 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_largest_cities#mediaviewer/File:Skyscrapers_of_Shinjuku_2009_January_(revised).jpg
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© Martin Steiger, 2003 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population#mediaviewer/File:Kairo_001.jpg
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Public domain image pixabay.com/en/paris-france-french-eiffel-tower-843229/
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© Kogo, 2007 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Pudong_Pano.jpg/800px-Pudong_Pano.jpg
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© Gunawan Kartapranata en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population#mediaviewer/File:Jakarta_Car_Free_Day.jpg
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© Alejandro Islas, 2013 flickr.com/photos/99299995@N02/9355469268
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© David Iliff, 2012 License: CC-BY-SA 3.0
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_proper_by_population#mediaviewer/File:Canary_Wharf_Skyline_2,_London_UK_-_Oct_2012.jpg
© elevonic, 2010 flickr.com/photos/97409040@N05/9031059883/in/photostream
© Rafael Rabello de Barros, 2011
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_Brazil#mediaviewer/File:Rio_de_Janeiro_Helicoptero_49_Feb_2006_zoom.jpg
10. © A.Savin, 2012 commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moscow_05-2012_Kremlin_23.jpg
11. © chensiyuan 2013 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square#mediaviewer/File:1_times_square_night_2013.jpg
12. © CobbleC flickr.com/photos/samanvari/1403652986
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