Cities

Racial tensions in the city led to riots in 1965 in Watts, a small L.A. neighborhood.

In 1867, San Francisco passed America's first "restrictive ugliness law."

Copenhagen has 5 partner cities: Paris, Prague, Reykjavík, Berlin and Marseille.

The first Maglev railway was opened in Shanghai in 2002.

The speed limit in Paris is 30 km/h.

The main ingredient of Shanghai cuisine is sugar.

St. Petersburg has 41 universities, more than 170 scientific research institutions, more than two thousand libraries, the Pulkovo Observatory, the Mariinsky Theater, and the world-renowned 1862 Philharmonic Hall.

Saint Paul had to escape from Ephesus.

It is the world’s third largest city.

The typical tree in Helsinki is the common maple (Acer platanoides).