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** Dredd's home city of Mega City One grew from BosWash (See Real Life examples below) until it covered the entire eastern seaboard. In fact, the whole point of the ''Apocalypse War'' arc was to trim its sheer size down, as it had become too big.
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. The governments of three large cities (New York, Philadelphia and Washington) are considering merging into one single ''Mega'' Mega City, but the logistics of maintaining and governing such a large conglomerate have so far prevented any action on the plan.
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'', ''Literature/TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. The governments of three large cities (New York, Philadelphia and Washington) are considering merging into one single ''Mega'' Mega City, but the logistics of maintaining and governing such a large conglomerate have so far prevented any action on the plan.
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* In the US (and other places), urban sprawl has started expanding cities to the point where they run together. The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to Washington DC--this has now expanded to include cities further north, and it's soon to connect to the rim of cities around the Chesapeake Bay, and thence to Piedmont, the mega-metropolis that runs from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee (and possibly Memphis). Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city. The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada, but to a lesser degree in the northern part of it - it's a few hours' drove between the main cities of the Northwest, most of which is forests or fields.
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* In the US (and other places), urban sprawl has started expanding cities to the point where they run together. For instance:
** The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to WashingtonDC--this DC. This has now expanded to include cities further north, and it's soon to connect to the rim of cities around the Chesapeake Bay, and thence to Piedmont, the mega-metropolis that runs from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee (and possibly Memphis). Memphis).
** Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. There's still quite a lot of farmland between Chicago and Pittsburgh, but continuous or near-continuous belts of development can be seen from Chicago into northwest Indiana, from Detroit to Toledo (the one in Ohio, not Spain), and from there Cleveland and eastern Ohio kind of gradually spill out into western Pennsylvania (all industrial, but with farms occasionally getting in the way).
** Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city.
** The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada, but to a lesser degree in the northern part of it - it's a few hours' drove between the main cities of the Northwest, most of which is forests or fields.
** The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to Washington
** Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. There's still quite a lot of farmland between Chicago and Pittsburgh, but continuous or near-continuous belts of development can be seen from Chicago into northwest Indiana, from Detroit to Toledo (the one in Ohio, not Spain), and from there Cleveland and eastern Ohio kind of gradually spill out into western Pennsylvania (all industrial, but with farms occasionally getting in the way).
** Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city.
** The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada, but to a lesser degree in the northern part of it - it's a few hours' drove between the main cities of the Northwest, most of which is forests or fields.
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* In the US (and other places), urban sprawl has started expanding cities to the point where they run together. The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to Washington DC--this has now expanded to include cities further north, and it's soon to connect to the rim of cities around the Chesapeake Bay, and thence to Piedmont, the mega-metropolis that runs from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee (and possibly Memphis). Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city. The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada.
Canada, but to a lesser degree in the northern part of it - it's a few hours' drove between the main cities of the Northwest, most of which is forests or fields.
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Depending on the setting you can expect to see a lot of high houses, endless suburbs and futuristic ways to come around. If you are lucky the author may even thought on the troubles with providing food and water for all the inhabients as well as the trouble for the enviroment so many people naturally generate. If you are unlucky however the heroes may find themselve alone at times and places where that should be impossible given the population density.
Notice that despite the introduction a given city does not count as a MegaCity just because it is bigger than a given country. Compaire to example real life where not less than 41 countries around the world have less than a million inhabitants, 17 even less than 100,000, where cities of that size in other countries are normal and therefor would not be seen as mega cities.
Notice that despite the introduction a given city does not count as a MegaCity just because it is bigger than a given country. Compaire to example real life where not less than 41 countries around the world have less than a million inhabitants, 17 even less than 100,000, where cities of that size in other countries are normal and therefor would not be seen as mega cities.
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Depending on the setting you can expect to see a lot of high houses, endless suburbs and futuristic ways to come around. If you are lucky the author may even thought on the troubles with providing food and water for all the inhabients inhabitants as well as the trouble for the enviroment environment so many people naturally generate. If you are unlucky however the heroes may find themselve themselves alone at times and places where that should be impossible given the population density.
Notice that despite the introduction a given city does not count as a MegaCity just because it is bigger than a given country.Compaire Compare to example real life where not less than 41 countries around the world have less than a million inhabitants, 17 even less than 100,000, where cities of that size in other countries are normal and therefor would not be seen as mega cities.
Notice that despite the introduction a given city does not count as a MegaCity just because it is bigger than a given country.
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* According to TheOtherWiki, there are about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population as many people in Jakarta]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population as there are people in Australia]] (especially if you count Jakarta's satellite cities and zones). This troper can personally attest to that.
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* According to TheOtherWiki, there are about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population as many people in Jakarta]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population as there are people in Australia]] (especially if you count Jakarta's satellite cities and zones). This troper can personally attest to that.
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* In the US (and other places), urban sprawl has started expanding cities to the point where they run together. The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to Washington DC--this has now expanded to include cities further north, and it's soon to connect to the rim of cities around the Chesepeake Bay, and thence to Piedmont, the mega-metropolis that runs from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee (and possibly Memphis). Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city. The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada.
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* In the US (and other places), urban sprawl has started expanding cities to the point where they run together. The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to Washington DC--this has now expanded to include cities further north, and it's soon to connect to the rim of cities around the Chesepeake Chesapeake Bay, and thence to Piedmont, the mega-metropolis that runs from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee (and possibly Memphis). Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city. The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada.
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* In the US (and other places), urban sprawl has started expanding cities to the point where they run together. The first was known originally as BosWash, a contiguous mass of cities and suburbs running from Boston to Washington DC--this has now expanded to include cities further north, and it's soon to connect to the rim of cities around the Chesepeake Bay, and thence to Piedmont, the mega-metropolis that runs from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Atlanta, Georgia, to Nashville, Tennessee (and possibly Memphis). Back up North, the manufacturing region known as the Rust Belt connects BosWash with ChiPitts, the city spanning the lower rim of the Great Lakes and beyond. Back in the South, most of the Florida Peninsula is a single urban area, minus the swamps and theme-parks (which might still count, actually), and the Gulf Coast is a continuous strip of development ranging from Houston, Texas, to at least Pensacola, Florida, where this troper lives, and he can tell you that there's less than an hour's drive East before you hit another strip that goes from the tiny town of Navarre, through Destin, Panama City, and Tallahassee, and possibly beyond. Once this one spreads north, the entire US east of the Mississippi and quite a bit west of it will be connected to this one city. The West Coast has another smaller one that connects to the Mexican one as well as southwestern Canada.
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* According to TheOtherWiki, there are about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population as many people in Jakarta]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population as there are people in Australia]] (especially if you count Jakarta's satellite cities and zones). This troper can personally attest to that.
** There are about as many people in Tokyo as there are people in [[CanadaEh Canada]]. Makes [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse a certain trope]] feels juuuuust a little bit {{Justified}}.
* According to TheOtherWiki, there are about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population as many people in Jakarta]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population as there are people in Australia]] (especially if you count Jakarta's satellite cities and zones). This troper can personally attest to that.
** There are about as many people in Tokyo as there are people in [[CanadaEh Canada]]. Makes [[TokyoIsTheCenterOfTheUniverse a certain trope]] feels juuuuust a little bit {{Justified}}.
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* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': The Imperial Palace covers all of [[strike:Europe]] Eurasia (the Golden Throne, with attendant machinery and security, consumes [[RefugeInAudacity Mount Everest's entire interior volume]] all on its own.)
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* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': The Imperial Palace covers all of [[strike:Europe]] Eurasia (the Eurasia. (The Golden Throne, with counting attendant machinery and security, consumes [[RefugeInAudacity Mount Everest's entire interior volume]] all on its own.)
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* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': The Imperial Palace covers all of [[strike:Europe]] Eurasia (the Golden Throne's Throne, with attendant machinery and security security, consumes [[RefugeInAudacity Mount Everest's entire interior volume]].volume]] all on its own.)
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* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': The Imperial Palace covers all of Europe.[[strike:Europe]] Eurasia (the Golden Throne's attendant machinery and security consumes [[RefugeInAudacity Mount Everest's entire interior volume]].)
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. The government's of three large cities (New York, Philadelphia and Washington) are considering merging into one single ''Mega'' Mega City, but the logistics of maintaining and governing such a large conglomerate have so far prevented any action on the plan.
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. The government's governments of three large cities (New York, Philadelphia and Washington) are considering merging into one single ''Mega'' Mega City, but the logistics of maintaining and governing such a large conglomerate have so far prevented any action on the plan.
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. Later in the ''Robots/Empire/Foundation'' series, Trantor, and presumably a few other worlds, are globe-spanning versions of these with populations in the billions.
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. The government's of three large cities (New York, Philadelphia and Washington) are considering merging into one single ''Mega'' Mega City, but the logistics of maintaining and governing such a large conglomerate have so far prevented any action on the plan.
** Later in the ''Robots/Empire/Foundation'' series, Trantor, and presumably a few other worlds, are globe-spanning versions of these with populations in the billions.
** Later in the ''Robots/Empire/Foundation'' series, Trantor, and presumably a few other worlds, are globe-spanning versions of these with populations in the billions.
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* In VladimirVasilyev's ''Big Kiev Technician'' UrbanFantasy series, Big Kiev in this AlternateUniverse is roughly 600 miles in diameter. Big London is also mentioned, although it may be smaller. It takes 9 hours on a train to get from the Black Sea in the southern part of town to the Center (where our Kiev, Ukraine, is located). One of the old cities absorbed into Big Kiev is L'viv. Only canned goods are available in the Center due to lack of farmland or cattle so far from the edge, unless you're willing to spend a fortune on fresh meat and fruit.
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* In VladimirVasilyev's ''Big Kiev Technician'' ''BigKievTechnician'' UrbanFantasy series, Big Kiev in this AlternateUniverse is roughly 600 miles in diameter. Big London is also mentioned, although it may be smaller. It takes 9 hours on a train to get from the Black Sea in the southern part of town to the Center (where our Kiev, Ukraine, is located). One of the old cities absorbed into Big Kiev is L'viv. Only canned goods are available in the Center due to lack of farmland or cattle so far from the edge, unless you're willing to spend a fortune on fresh meat and fruit.
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* The Outer Wall of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Ba Sing Se]] seems to encompass nearly 10% of the land area of the largest continent on its planet, and its population is equally gigantic, especially in comparison to those of the entire Air Nomad and Water Tribe civilizations.
* The Outer Wall of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Ba Sing Se]] seems to encompass nearly 10% of the land area of the largest continent on its planet, and its population is equally gigantic, especially in comparison to those of the entire Air Nomad and Water Tribe civilizations.
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* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': The Outer Wall of
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* In IsaacAsimov's ''The Caves of Steel'', ''TheCavesOfSteel'', all of Earth's population lives in eight hundred arcologies known as 'Cities'. The average population of each City is eleven point two million. Later in the ''Robots/Empire/Foundation'' series, Trantor, and presumably a few other worlds, are globe-spanning versions of these with populations in the billions.
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This will probably be the CapitalCity, and if it's not a MerchantCity, there'll definitely be a BazaarOfTheBizaree BazaarOfTheBizarre if you know where to look. Occasionally, a MegaCity will be so large it is effectively a CityPlanet.
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This will probably be the CapitalCity, and if it's not a MerchantCity, there'll definitely be a BazaarOfTheBizaree if you know where to look. Occasionally, a MegaCity will be so large it is effectively a CityPlanet.
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Notice that despite the introduction a given city does not count as a MegaCity just because it is bigger than a given country. Compaire to example real life where not less than 41 countries around the world have less than a million inhabitants, 17 even less than 100,000, where cities of that size in other countries are normal and therefor would not be seen as mega cities.
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A city whose population is larger than some countries. The actual size can depend on the average city size of the setting, but for modern or scifi settings, you can assume that the number of citizens goes into the hundred of millions.
Adjusted in real life where 41 countries around the world have less than a million inhabitants, 17 even less than 100,000, and therefore will fit in a lot of cities in other countries.
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A city whose population is larger than some countries. a reasonably sized country. The actual size can depend on the average city size of the setting, but for modern or scifi sci-fi settings, you can assume that the number of citizens goes into the hundred of millions.
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millions.
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* In SergeyLukyanenko's ''Big Kiev'' series, the titular city in this AlternateUniverse is roughly 300 miles in diameter. Big London is also mentioned, although it may be smaller. It takes 9 hours on a train to get from the Black Sea in the southern part of town to the Center (where our Kiev, Ukraine, is located). Only canned goods are available in the Center due to lack of farmland or cattle so far from the edge, unless you're willing to spend a fortune on fresh meat and fruit.
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* In SergeyLukyanenko's VladimirVasilyev's ''Big Kiev'' Kiev Technician'' UrbanFantasy series, the titular city Big Kiev in this AlternateUniverse is roughly 300 600 miles in diameter. Big London is also mentioned, although it may be smaller. It takes 9 hours on a train to get from the Black Sea in the southern part of town to the Center (where our Kiev, Ukraine, is located). One of the old cities absorbed into Big Kiev is L'viv. Only canned goods are available in the Center due to lack of farmland or cattle so far from the edge, unless you're willing to spend a fortune on fresh meat and fruit.
** Big Moscow is mentioned to be even larger, although younger.
** This can be partially explained by cities apparently growing ''on their own'', as a jungle would. This fits into the overall theme of all machines in this world being alive.
** Big Moscow is mentioned to be even larger, although younger.
** This can be partially explained by cities apparently growing ''on their own'', as a jungle would. This fits into the overall theme of all machines in this world being alive.
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* {{Avatar}}: In the extended version, and in [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] the cities of Earth have become this.
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** In ''TheFifthElement'', ''TheFifthElephant'', Carrot points out that it's actually the largest dwarf city, having more dwarfs than any purely dwarf city.
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Occasionally, a MegaCity will be so large it is effectively a CityPlanet.
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* The Outer Wall of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Ba Sing Se]] seems to encompass nearly 10% of the land area of the largest continent on its planet, and its population is equally gigantic, especially in comparison to those of the entire Air Nomad and Water Tribe civilizations.
* The Outer Wall of [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Ba Sing Se]] seems to encompass nearly 10% of the land area of the largest continent on its planet, and its population is equally gigantic, especially in comparison to those of the entire Air Nomad and Water Tribe civilizations.
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* * {{Discworld}}: While Ankh-Morpork only has a million inhabitants, it is still the biggest city in the [[MedievalStasis setting]].
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** In ''TheFifthElement'', Carrot points out that it's actually the largest dwarf city, having more dwarfs than any purely dwarf city.
