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Maps

Maps, by their very nature, are big fat liars. Despite what the Flat-Earthers would have you believe, the world is indeed spherical, meaning any 2-D attempt to depict it has to be a distortion. One of the worst of these distortions is the famous Mercator projection, which makes Greenland look like Africa, despite it being a whopping 14 and half times smaller.&nbsp;If you're looking for more accurate world maps, James Talmage and Damon Maneice's <a href="http://thetruesize.com">The True Size Of&nbsp;</a>app has you covered. By dragging the outlines of countries and continents across the Mercator projection, you get to see what it would be like if, say, Florida was as exaggerated a peninsula as Sweden and Norway, or if Canada got taken down a peg and didn't benefit from its exaggerated, Mercator-enhanced form. The true size of Africa is perhaps <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/most-shocking-moments-in-comics/ranker-comics?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">the most shocking</a> revelation: the Mercator projection dwarfs it, but it is actually large enough to&nbsp;contain both the United States and Australia. The slideshow below features some of the most surprising and&nbsp;eye-opening examples of what the app can reveal.

America

America. It&#39;s so much more than chants of &quot;USA!&nbsp;USA!&nbsp;USA!&quot; can possibly capture. It&#39;s a diverse empire of more than 327 million people living often radically different star-spangled lives in the land of the free. In addition to helping navigate from sea to shining sea, maps can help convey just how magnificently multifarious this great nation really is. These are the most compelling maps of the United States of America available on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/" target="_blank">r/mapp*rn</a>, and you can vote up the ones that blow your red, white, and blue mind.

US History

If you want to learn about history, you have a plethora of resources. Oral traditions, written texts, and material objects all reveal historical facts, as do maps. US history maps, going all the way back to before the United States even existed, give insights into the people, events, and trends that have defined the North American continent and the American nation.

Maps can contain demographic information. They may also reflect the establishment of boundaries, redefined borders, or changing physical features. Some US&nbsp;maps incorporate economic, cultural, and political content, all of which reveal&nbsp;some of the most significant moments and changes in US history. Maps may also remind viewers of something from the past that, in hindsight, looks like a mistake, perhaps imparting a lesson for the future.

Interesting

Maps can be useful for so much more than simply locating borders or figuring out bus routes. Maps of the world can visually illustrate how humans move around the globe, what cultures value, how nations relate to one another, and even how innumerable animal species inhabit <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/interesting-world-population-maps/mallory-weiler" target="_blank">this starship Earth</a>. These are the most interesting planet-spanning maps&nbsp;on <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/mapporn" target="_blank">r/mapp*rn</a>, so vote up the ones that shifted your worldview just a little.

These&nbsp;maps that show the relative size of cities around the world (both in area and in population) illustrate just how large the United States and its cities really are. This is particularly true when foreign cities like Paris and Tokyo are compared to their American counterparts. Looking at&nbsp;maps of cities around the world, it's clear which cities are dense, which are sprawling, and which are small but have an outsized influence on politics and culture.In many cases,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/true-size-world-maps/kellen-perry">the real size of world cities</a> will surprise you. Check out how your hometown stacks up against, say, New York City or&nbsp;Atlanta, Georgia. Even rival cities&nbsp;in the Midwest can be compared to one another in this&nbsp;ultimate showdown.&nbsp;

Weird

The Earth is unimaginably large -&nbsp;even in a modern aircraft, it takes nearly all day to circle the planet. There have been <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/historical-theories-about-space/machk" target="_blank">historical theories about space</a> from ancient to modern times, trying to explain how the earth is shaped and its place in the universe. Theories on the shape of the earth vary from <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/crazy-flat-earther-beliefs-theories-why-they-believe/jeffrichard" target="_blank">those who believe the earth is&nbsp;flat</a> to those who believe the earth is&nbsp;the trunk of a massive tree. By the Middle Ages, it was generally accepted that the earth was nice and round. Yet for some reason, in the late 19th century, there was a strange rebirth of&nbsp;ideas about&nbsp;how the earth is really shaped.&nbsp;Though the ancient Greeks were the first people credited with <a href="http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160126-how-we-know-earth-is-round" target="_blank">discovering that the earth is round</a>, there is a persistent notion that it is a relatively new concept in the field of scientific history. During the Reformation and&nbsp;when scientific advancements in the 1800s began to threaten religion, ideas that the earth may be flat reemerged in the public imagination. Gathered below are some of the weirdest and most eccentric theories about the earth's shape that were posited even after much scientific evidence existed to support the roundness of the planet.&nbsp;

Maps: how do they work? Presumably, when a cartographer makes a map they not only have expert knowledge of geography&nbsp;but also top-notch artistic skills. Not so much with the intense geography fails cataloged on this list. Some of the funny maps on this list were (hopefully) created to be silly, but for the most part, pure stupidity played a big role in the creation of these drawings of geographic areas. If you&rsquo;re going on a road trip any time soon, please don&rsquo;t take any of these maps along with you. Just do what everyone else does and make Siri tell you where to go until you lose cell reception and then panic. Or take an actual map! Either way, don&rsquo;t trust any of the worst maps on the internet.

Check out this list of the worst maps on the internet and for Pete&rsquo;s sake don&rsquo;t commit them to memory! Vote up the maps that make you laugh out loud below, even though (or maybe because) they&#39;re the worst, and someone please track down some Greenland data.

What is a map projection? Oh boy, get ready to learn! Map projections are the ways humans attempt to portray the curved earth's surface on a flat piece of paper or computer screen. Because the surface of the earth isn't flat, there is inevitably distortion in whatever way a cartographer (map maker) chooses to show the planet. Unfortunately, you just have to deal with it and choose the projection with least amount of distortion for your purposes when you create a map.There are many map projection types, and they all have special uses for which they are best suited. There's the Mercator projection, which most likely hung in your elementary school classroom. It shows North and South America on one side, and Africa, Europe, and Asia on the other, and then Australia is off to the side, and the whole bottom is just Antarctica in a white stripe. There's the Albers projection, which is great for showing area, but boy do the shapes of all the countries look weird. There's also the Gall-Peters projection, which any geography buff or geographer will tell you ruffled everyone's feathers in the '80s.If you make your own map or make a map online, you will probably be just fine. Plus, what are you mapping, anyway? Did you know any person's cell phone will show them how to get to your house? Technology! However, even in this modern age, it is good to be aware different map projections so that you know what you are looking at. And also so you know that Greenland really isn't that big. Sorry to burst your bubble.Read on to learn more about the best map projection, how to make a map, and maybe even map making in general. Maybe you will impress a potential new romantic partner at a party with this information. You are most welcome!

Historical Photos

Historical world maps are full of secrets. They sometimes exclude entire hemispheres or add imagined continents that never existed. And <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/world-maps-of-historical-empires/amandasedlakhevener" target="_blank">world map changes</a> over time reveal just how much humanity's view of the planet has evolved through the centuries.How was the world map created? Some of the earliest world maps focus on the three known continents -&nbsp;Europe, Africa, and Asia - and&nbsp;often disorient&nbsp;modern viewers by placing east or south at the top. Many of them are inventive, creative&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/public-transportation-maps-from-around-the-world/kellen-perry" target="_blank">works of art</a>. Maps through time have been adapted and changed according to the people making them and viewing them, giving us a particularly unique glimpse into the past.Maps of the world also reveal how different cultures saw themselves and their place in the world. Was the center of the world Jerusalem, or Mount Meru? Was the earth mostly land, or mostly water? And is the ocean blue, or green?&nbsp;World maps are rich historical windows to the past, and here are just a few of the most striking.

Oftentimes, the image we have of the world is skewed by where we grew up, what we learned&nbsp;in school, and how extensive our travels have been. Factoring in the incomprehensible number of people alive on Earth, it&#39;s not surprising that many people can&#39;t wrap their heads around how heavily each state, country, and continent are populated. Thankfully, some graphic designers have put together population <a href="https://www.ranker.com/list/whoa-world-maps/jtdesaulnier/" target="_blank">maps</a> that help others visualize just how massively inhabited some parts of the world are.&nbsp;

Vote up the world population density maps that surprise you.

Songs

The great part about music is that you can write a song about anything, but for this list we're ranking the best songs about maps. Do you have a favorite map song? Whether it's rock, rap, country, or anything in between, we want you to vote up your favorites on this list of songs about maps. You can even add additional tracks to the poll if any good map songs are missing, so feel free to contribute to the list. We've included YouTube videos to accompany the songs when available, so think of this page as a map songs playlist. Some of the songs below include &quot;Maps&quot; by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, &quot;Maps and Legends&quot; by R.E.M., and &quot;Maps&quot; by Macy Gray. A song can qualify to be on this in two ways. First, the song has map in the title or lyrics, or some close variation of that word. Second, the song is conceptually about maps, even if it doesn't specifically mention that word.

Medieval maps look nothing like modern ones. And that&rsquo;s not just because geographical knowledge and <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/map-projections/amylindorff" target="_blank">cartographic techniques</a> were different in the medieval period. Medieval maps served specific purposes, and the goal wasn&rsquo;t always getting from point A to point B. These may look like weird medieval maps to us, but they were valuable objects in the Middle Ages.

These strange maps, which stamp the head of Jesus Christ on the world, or show the location of the Earthly Paradise, often served <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/HOC/HOC_V1/HOC_VOLUME1_chapter18.pdf" target="_blank">religious purposes</a>. Medieval cartography was an art form, and maps often <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/relative-size-maps-of-cities-around-the-world/amandasedlakhevener" target="_blank">manipulated size</a> or features to emphasize a moral message.&nbsp;

Medieval maps carry a message that many of us can understand today - and remind us that <a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/early-theories-about-the-shape-of-the-earth/hugh-landman" target="_blank">beliefs about the world</a> are constantly changing.&nbsp;

This is a list of global cities, sorted by their positioning on the planet from North to South. These are the cities listed by the <a href="https://www.atkearney.com/research-studies/global-cities-index/2014" target="_blank">A.T. Kearney Global Cities Index</a> (GCI), which measures global engagement across metrics in business, human capital, information exchange, culture, and politics. What cities in the world are coldest? Which ones are right along the Equator? Did you know that London is 11 degrees north of New York City? But NYC is south of Istanbul?&nbsp;This global cities list includes all 83 cities given this official designation, along with their coordinates. 75 of them are in the Northern hemisphere, and only 8 of them are in the Southern Hemisphere.&nbsp;

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Stockholm - 59°19&#39;N

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic region, with 911 989 people living in the municipality, approximately 1.4 million in the urban area, and a total population close to 2.2 million in the metropolitan area. The city is spread across 14 islands on the coast in the southeast of Sweden at the mouth of Lake Mälaren, by the Stockholm archipelago and the Baltic sea. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Birger Jarl.
Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The region alone accounts for over a third of the country's GDP, and is among the top 10 regions in Europe by GDP per capita. It's an important global city, and the main centre for corporate headquarters in the Nordic region. The city is home to some of Europe's top ranking universities, such as the Karolinska Institute, and hosts the annual Nobel Prize ceremonies and banquet at the Stockholm Concert Hall and Stockholm City Hall. One of the city's most prized museums, the Vasa Museum, is the most visited non-art museum in Scandinavia.

Moscow - 55°45&#39;N

Moscow

Moscow is the capital city and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural and scientific center in Russia and in Eastern Europe. According to Forbes 2013, Moscow has been ranked as the ninth most expensive city in the world by Mercer and is one of the world's largest urban economies, being ranked as an alpha global city according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network and is also one of the fastest growing tourist destinations in the world according to the MasterCard Global Destination Cities Index. Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Earth, one of the most populous in Europe and the 8th largest city proper in the world, as well as the largest amongst high income economies. It is home to the Ostankino Tower, the tallest free standing structure in Europe; Mercury City Tower, the tallest skyscraper in Europe and the Moscow International Business Center. It is the largest city in Russia, with a population of 12,197,596 people.

Berlin - 52°31&#39;N

Berlin

Berlin is the capital of Germany, and one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.5 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union. Located in northeastern Germany on the banks of River Spree, it is the center of the Berlin-Brandenburg Metropolitan Region, which has about 6 million residents from over 180 nations. Due to its location in the European Plain, Berlin is influenced by a temperate seasonal climate. Around one third of the city's area is composed of forests, parks, gardens, rivers and lakes.
First documented in the 13th century, Berlin became the capital of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the Kingdom of Prussia, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. Berlin in the 1920s was the third largest municipality in the world. After World War II, the city was divided; East Berlin became the capital of East Germany while West Berlin became a de facto West German exclave, surrounded by the Berlin Wall. Following German reunification in 1990, the city was once more designated as the capital of all Germany, hosting 158 foreign embassies.

Amsterdam - 52°22&#39;N

Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital city and most populous city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Its status as the Dutch capital is mandated by the Constitution of the Netherlands though it is not the seat of the Dutch government, which is The Hague. Amsterdam has a population of 813,562 within the city proper, 1,112,165 in the urban area and 1,575,263 in the metropolitan area. The city region has a population of 2,332,773. The city is located in the province of North Holland in the west of the country. It comprises much of the northern part of the Randstad, one of the larger conurbations in Europe, with a population of approximately 7 million.
Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin as a dam of the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world during the Dutch Golden Age, a result of its innovative developments in trade. During that time, the city was the leading center for finance and diamonds. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded, and many new neighborhoods and suburbs were planned and built.

Warsaw - 52°14&#39;N

Warsaw

Warsaw, is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, in east-central Poland, roughly 260 kilometres from the Baltic Sea and 300 kilometres from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population is estimated at 1.729 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 2.666 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 9th most populous capital city in the European Union. The area of the city covers 516.9 square kilometres, while the city's agglomeration covers 6,100.43 square kilometres.
In 2012 Warsaw was ranked as the 32nd most liveable city in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit. It was also ranked as one of the most liveable cities in Central and Eastern Europe. Today Warsaw is considered an Alpha– global city, a major international tourist destination and a significant cultural, political and economic hub. Warsaw's economy, by a wide variety of industries, is characterised by FMCG manufacturing, metal processing, steel and electronic manufacturing and food processing. The city is a significant centre of research and development, BPO, ITO, as well as Polish media industry.

Brussels - 50°51&#39;N

Brussels

Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is the capital and largest city of Belgium and the de facto capital of the European Union. Brussels is a regional level entity comprising 19 municipalities, including the municipality of the City of Brussels, which de jure is the capital of Belgium, in addition to the seat of the French Community of Belgium and of the Flemish Community.
Brussels has grown from a 10th-century fortress town founded by a descendant of Charlemagne to a sizeable city. The city has a population of 1.2 million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8 million, both of them the largest in Belgium.
Since the end of the Second World War, Brussels has been a major centre for international politics. Hosting principal EU institutions, the secretariat of the Benelux and the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the city has become the polyglot home of numerous international organisations, politicians, diplomats and civil servants.
Brussels is just a few miles north of the boundary between Belgium's language communities—French in the south, Dutch in the North.

Prague - 50°5&#39;N

Prague

Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. It is the fifteenth-largest city in the European Union. It is also the historical capital of Bohemia. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava River, the city is home to about 1.24 million people, while its larger urban zone is estimated to have a population of nearly 2 million. The city has a temperate climate, with warm summers and chilly winters. The origin of the name Praha is rather associated with the word prah, which is a rapid on the river.
Prague has been a political, cultural, and economic centre of central Europe with waxing and waning fortunes during its 1,100-year existence. Founded during the Romanesque and flourishing by the Gothic and Renaissance eras, Prague was not only the capital of the Czech state, but also the seat of two Holy Roman Emperors and thus also the capital of the Holy Roman Empire. It was an important city to the Habsburg Monarchy and its Austro-Hungarian Empire and after World War I became the capital of Czechoslovakia.

Copenhagen - 55°40&#39;N

Copenhagen

Copenhagen is the capital and most populated city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,246,611 and a metropolitan population of 1,992,114. It is situated on the eastern coast of Zealand, 164 km east of Odense and 28 km northwest of Malmö, Sweden. The city stretches across parts of the island of Amager and contains the enclave of Frederiksberg, a municipality in its own right.
Founded as a Viking fishing village in the 10th century, Copenhagen became the capital of Denmark in the early 15th century. During the 17th century, under the reign of Christian IV, it developed into an important regional centre, consolidating its position as capital of Denmark and Norway with its institutions, defences and armed forces. After suffering from the effects of plague and fire in the 18th century, the city underwent a period of redevelopment. This included construction of the prestigious district of Frederiksstaden and founding of such cultural institutions as the Royal Theatre and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.

Dublin - 53°20&#39;N

Dublin

Dublin is the capital and largest city of Ireland. Dublin is in the province of Leinster on Ireland's east coast, at the mouth of the River Liffey. The city has an urban area population of 1,110,627.
Founded as a Viking settlement, the Kingdom of Dublin became Ireland's principal city following the Norman invasion. The city expanded rapidly from the 17th century and was briefly the second largest city in the British Empire before the Act of Union in 1800. Following the partition of Ireland in 1922, Dublin became the capital of the Irish Free State, later renamed Ireland.
Dublin is administered by a City Council. The city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network as a global city, with a ranking of "Alpha-", placing it among the top thirty cities in the world. It is a historical and contemporary centre for education, the arts, administration, economy and industry.

London - 51°30&#39;N

London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom. Standing on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who named it Londinium. London's ancient core, the City of London, largely retains its 1.12-square-mile medieval boundaries and in 2011 had a resident population of 7,375, making it the smallest city in England. Since at least the 19th century, the term London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the Greater London administrative area, governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
London is a leading global city, with strengths in the arts, commerce, education, entertainment, fashion, finance, healthcare, media, professional services, research and development, tourism, and transport all contributing to its prominence. It is one of the world's leading financial centres and has the fifth-or sixth-largest metropolitan area GDP in the world depending on measurement. London is a world cultural capital.

Frankfurt - 50°7&#39;N

Frankfurt

Frankfurt am Main is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a population of 701,350 within its administrative boundaries. The larger cosmopolitan area surrounding the city itself, Frankfurt Rhein-Main, has a population of 2,221,910. The city is at the centre of the larger Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region which has a population of 5,500,000 and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region. Since the enlargement of the European Union in 2013, the geographic centre of the EU is about 40 km east of Frankfurt.

Vancouver - 49°15&#39;N

Vancouver

The City of Vancouver is the formal name of the governing entity whose geographical location is Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The City of Vancouver was established by a provincial statute on April 6, 1886. The city is governed by a City Council and a Mayor.

Munich - 48°8&#39;N

Munich

Munich is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria, on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg, with a population of around 1.49 million. The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to 5.6 million people.
The name of the city is derived from the Old High German term Munichen, meaning "by the monks". It derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who ran a monastery at the place that was later to become the Old Town of Munich; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat of arms. Munich was first mentioned in 1158. From 1255 the city was seat of the Bavarian Dukes. Black and gold — the colours of the Holy Roman Empire — have been the city's official colours since the time of Ludwig the Bavarian, when it was an imperial residence. Following a final reunification of the Wittelsbachian Duchy of Bavaria, previously divided and sub-divided for more than 200 years, the town became the country's sole capital in 1506.

Paris - 48°51&#39;N

Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France. Situated on the Seine River, in the north of the country, it is in the centre of the Île-de-France region, also known as the région parisienne, "Paris Region". The City of Paris has an area of 105.4 square kilometres and a population of 2,273,305 people within its city limits, It has the most populous urban area in the European Union. The Paris Region covers 12,012 square kilometres, and has its own regional council and president. It has a population of 12,005,077 as of January 2014, or 18.2 percent of the population of France.
Paris was founded in the 3rd century BC by a Celtic people called the Parisii, who gave the city its name. By the 12th century, Paris was the largest city in the western world, a prosperous trading centre, and the home of the University of Paris, one of the first in Europe. In the 18th century, it was the centre stage for the French Revolution, and became an important centre of finance, commerce, fashion, science, and the arts, a position it still retains today.

Vienna - 48°12&#39;N

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.794 million, and its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 7th-largest city by population within city limits in the European Union. Until the beginning of the 20th century it was the largest German-speaking city in the world, and before the splitting of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in World War I the city had 2 million inhabitants. Today it is the second only to Berlin in German speakers. Vienna is host to many major international organizations, including the United Nations and OPEC. The city lies in the east of Austria and is close to the borders of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. These regions work together in a European Centrope border region. Along with nearby Bratislava, Vienna forms a metropolitan region with 3 million inhabitants. In 2001, the city centre was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Apart from being regarded as the City of Music because of its musical legacy, Vienna is also said to be "The City of Dreams" because it was home to the world's first psycho-analyst – Sigmund Freud.

Budapest - 47°29&#39;N

Budapest

Budapest is the capital and the largest city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in Central Europe. It is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre, sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. In 2011, according to the census, Budapest had 1.74 million inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2.1 million due to suburbanisation. The Budapest Metropolitan Area is home to 3.3 million people. The city covers an area of 525 square kilometres. Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with its unification on 17 November 1873 of Buda and Óbuda, on the west bank, with Pest, on the east bank.
The history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Pannonia Inferior. Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century.

Zurich - 47°22&#39;N

Zurich

Zurich is an unincorporated community in Inyo County, California. It is located 2 miles northeast of Big Pine, at an elevation of 3934 feet.

Geneva - 46°12&#39;N

Geneva

Geneva is the second most populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situated where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the capital of the Republic and Canton of Geneva.
The municipality has a population of 196,257, and the canton has 479,158 residents. In 2011, the compact agglomération franco-valdo-genevoise had 915,000 inhabitants in both – Switzerland and France. Within Swiss territory, the commuter area named "Métropole lémanique" contains a population of 1.25 million. This area is essentially spread east from Geneva towards the Riviera area and north-east towards Yverdon-les-Bains, in the neighbouring canton of Vaud.
Geneva is a global city, a financial center, and worldwide center for diplomacy due to the presence of numerous international organizations, including the headquarters of many of the agencies of the United Nations and the Red Cross. Geneva is the city that hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world. It is also the place where the Geneva Conventions were signed, which chiefly concern the treatment of wartime non-combatants and prisoners of war.

Montreal - 45°30&#39;N

Montreal

Montreal is a city in the Canadian province of Quebec. It is the largest city in the province, the second-largest in Canada and the 9th-largest in North America. Originally called Ville-Marie, or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The city is on the Island of Montreal, which took its name from the same source as the city, and a few much smaller peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard.
In 2011 the city had a population of 1,649,519. Montreal's metropolitan area had a population of 3,824,221 and a population of 1,886,481 in the urban agglomeration, all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. Current 2014 estimates of the CMA place the metropolitan area of Montreal at 4.1 million.
French is the city's official language and is the language spoken at home, as Quebec French, by 56.9% of the population of the city, followed by English at 18.6% and 19.8% other languages. In the larger Montreal Census Metropolitan Area, 67.9% of the population speaks French at home, compared to 16.5% who speak English.

Milan - 45°28&#39;N

Milan

Milan, Latin: Mediolanum, is the second-most populous city in Italy and the capital of Lombardy. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area is the 5th largest in the EU with an estimated population of about 5,264,000. The massive suburban sprawl that followed the post-war boom of the 1950s–60s and the growth of a vast commuter belt, suggest that socio-economic linkages have expanded well beyond the boundaries of its administrative limits and its agglomeration, creating a polycentric metropolitan area of between 7 and 10 million people, stretching over the former provinces of Milan, Bergamo, Como, Lecco, Lodi, Monza and Brianza, Pavia, Varese, Novara. The Milan metropolitan region is part of the so-called Blue Banana, the area of Europe with the highest population and industrial density, and one of the Four Motors for Europe.
Milan was founded by the Insubres, a Celtic people. The city was later conquered by the Romans as Mediolanum, eventually becoming the capital of the Western Roman Empire. During the Middle Ages, Milan flourished as a commercial and banking center.

Toronto - 43°42&#39;N

Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario, with the original city area lying between the Don and Humber rivers. As of 2011, Toronto had a population of 2,615,060 people within its city limits, making it the fourth most populous city in North America, after Mexico City, New York City, and Los Angeles. The Toronto census metropolitan area, with a population of 5,583,064 people in 2011, is the most populous metropolitan area in Canada.
The history of Toronto began in the late 18th century when the British Crown purchased its land from the Mississaugas of the New Credit. The settlement established there became York, which lieutenant governor John Graves Simcoe designated as the capital of Upper Canada. The city was ransacked in the Battle of York during the War of 1812. In 1834, York became a city and renamed to Toronto. It was damaged in two huge fires in 1849 and 1904. Since 1954, the city occasionally expanded its borders through amalgamation with surrounding municipalities, most recently occurring in 1998.

Boston - 42°21&#39;N

Boston

Boston is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States. Boston also serves as county seat of Suffolk County. The city proper covers 48 square miles with an estimated population of 645,966 in 2014, making it the largest city in New England and the 24th largest city in the United States. The city is the anchor of a substantially larger metropolitan area called Greater Boston, home to 4.5 million people and the tenth-largest metropolitan area in the country. Greater Boston as a commuting region is home to 7.6 million people, making it the sixth-largest Combined Statistical Area in the United States.
One of the oldest cities in the United States, Boston was founded on the Shawmut Peninsula in 1630 by Puritan settlers from England. It was the scene of several key events of the American Revolution, such as the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, the Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Siege of Boston. Upon American independence from Great Britain, the city continued to be an important port and manufacturing hub, as well as a center for education and culture.

Rome - 41°54&#39;N

Rome

Rome is a city and special comune in Italy. Rome is the capital of Italy and region of Lazio. With 2.9 million residents in 1,285 km², it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome has a population of 4.3 million residents. The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio, along the shores of Tiber river. Vatican City is an independent country within the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.
Rome's history spans more than two and a half thousand years. Although Roman tradition states the founding of Rome around 753 BC, the site has been inhabited much earlier, being one of the oldest continuously occupied cities in Europe. The city's early population originated from a mix of Latins, Etruscans and Sabines. Eventually, the city successively became the capital of the Roman Kingdom, the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, and is regarded as one of the birthplaces of Western civilization.

Chicago - 41°50&#39;N

Chicago

Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles. With 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in both the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States. Its metropolitan area, sometimes called Chicagoland, is home to 9.9 million people and is the third-largest in the United States. Chicago is the seat of Cook County.
Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed, and experienced rapid growth in the mid-nineteenth century. Today, the city is an international hub for finance, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation, with O'Hare International Airport being the busiest airport in the world; it also has the largest number of U.S. highways, and railroad freight entering its region. In 2012, Chicago was listed as an alpha global city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, and ranks seventh in the world in the 2014 Global Cities Index.

Barcelona - 41°23&#39;N

Barcelona

Barcelona is the capital city of the autonomous community of Catalonia in Spain and the country's second largest city, with a population of 1.6 million within its administrative limits. Its urban area extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of around 4.5 million people, being the sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris, London, Madrid, the Ruhr area and Milan. It is the largest metropolis on the Mediterranean Sea, located on the coast between the mouths of the rivers Llobregat and Besòs, and bounded to the west by the Serra de Collserola mountain range, the tallest peak of which is 512 metres high.
Founded as a Roman city, in the Middle Ages Barcelona became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After merging with the Kingdom of Aragon, Barcelona continued to be an important city in the Crown of Aragon. Besieged several times during its history, Barcelona has a rich cultural heritage and is today an important cultural center and a major tourist destination. Particularly renowned are the architectural works of Antoni Gaudí and Lluís Domènech i Montaner, which have been designated UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

This is a list of global cities, sorted by their positioning on the planet from North to South. These are the cities listed by the A.T. Kearney Global Cities ...

All Global Cities, Listed North to South

Stockholm - 59°19'N

Moscow - 55°45'N

Berlin - 52°31'N

Amsterdam - 52°22'N

Warsaw - 52°14'N

Brussels - 50°51'N

Prague - 50°5'N

Copenhagen - 55°40'N

Dublin - 53°20'N

London - 51°30'N

Frankfurt - 50°7'N

Vancouver - 49°15'N

Munich - 48°8'N

Paris - 48°51'N

Vienna - 48°12'N

Budapest - 47°29'N

Zurich - 47°22'N

Geneva - 46°12'N

Montreal - 45°30'N

Milan - 45°28'N

Toronto - 43°42'N

Boston - 42°21'N

Rome - 41°54'N

Chicago - 41°50'N

Barcelona - 41°23'N