Monday, August 31, 2009
PAKISTAN TRAVEL CITIES
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PAKISTAN LAHORE INFO
Introduction The city of Lahore is the capital of the Punjab. It occupies a central position, and is generally called 'The Heart of Pakistan'. Lahore is situated on the banks of the Ravi . Lahore is a city of gardens, and has the reputation of being the 'Green City'. It occupies a choice site in the midst of fertile alluvial plains. Lahore is the city of poets, artists and the center of film industry. Brief History Ptolemy's "Geographia", written about 150 AD, refers to it as "Labokla" and locates it with reference to the Indus, the Ravi, the Jhelum and the Chenab rivers. Another place revealed that it was founded by Loh the son of Rama Chandra. However the accorded history of Lahore dates back to 850 AD., conquered by Mahmood Gaznavi in 1021 AD, it was made the capital of the Ghaznavid east of Indus and later captital of entire Ghaznavid Empire by Masud, son of Mahmood. It was then that Lahore became the centre of social, cultural and educational activities reaching the pinnacle of its glory under the Mughals who gave it its famous architecture including the magnificent fort, gardens, tombs, mosques and pavilions. Some of the old names of Lahore can be observed as:
|  Tower of Lahore (Minar-e-Pakistan)
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Area and Population With a population of more than 6,563,000 people, Lahore is Pakistan's second largest city. The city is built in the form of a parallelogram, the area within the walls (central Lahore or Old Lahore), being about 461 acres. The district lies at 31-34' North latitude and 74-20' East longitude. Climate There are two main seasons, namely the winter and the summer. The monsoons are at their peak during July and August, and during these two months there is more than half of the annual rainfall. October and November are the drieat months and average rain fall during these months is about one third of an inch only. There are Winter rains during December - February, the average rainfall during these months being 3 inches. Historical Architectures The city as we know it today, reached its peak of glory during the Moghul rulers, especially in the reign of Akbar the Great. His son, Jehangir, is buried in its outskirts and his mausoleum is one of the places frequented by tourists and Lahorites alike. Close by is the mausoleum of the famous Moghul Empress, Noor Jehan, who is known for introducing the rose plant and for initiating several cultural movements in the Sub-Continent. | |||||
| Akbar the Great built the Lahore Fort, as well as the city walls which had 12 gates. Some of these still survive. Jehangir and Shah Jehan, the builders of the Taj Mahal in Agra and the Shalamar Gardens in Srinagar and Lahore, built palaces and tombs. The last great Moghul Emperor, Aurangzeb built Lahore's most famous monument, the great Badshahi Mosque. At that time the river Ravi, which now lies a few miles away from Lahore , touched the ramparts of the Fort and the Mosque. The British during their reign compensated Lahore, by harmoniously combining Mughal, Gothic and Victorian styles of architecture. Victorian heritage is only next to Mughal monuments. They built some important buildings, like the GPO, High Court, Government College, Museums, National College of Arts, Montgomery Hall, Tollinton Market, Punjab University (Old Campus) and the Provincial Assembly. | ||||
Education It has the largest number of educational institutions in the country. Many colleges and schools which found Lahore's reputation as education center of Pakistan par excellence. Most notable are Government College- first in prestige in the country, and of which Allama Iqbal, founding father of Pakistan's Independence, was distinguished alumnus; added in 1950; the Kinnaired College for Woman and Aitcheson College, still the most expensive educational establishment in the country. Punjab University is the largest center of education in Asia. It has a splendid old campus in the Old Lahore and built a new Campus in the quieter environments on the Canal Bank, but the old University buildings are still functioning. King Edward Medical College is the country's largest medical institution, founded in 1870. The National College of Arts, has separate departments in Architecture, Fine Arts & design, on the competition entry basis 450 students receives from all over the country. | |||||
Culture Lahore is cultural, intellectual and artistic center of the nation. Its faded elegance, busy streets and bazaars, and wide variety of Islamic and British architecture make it a city full of atmosphere, contrast and surprise. The warm and receptive people of Lahore are known for their traditional hospitality. This is a city of vivid differences, of haunting nuances; where bustling bazaars, frenetic streets, glorious fading elegance, architecture and echoing atmosphere of city's many mosques merge together into a history that is both dramatic and fascinating. Bazaars and market places in the Lahore is of course legendary - the Kashmiri, Suha, Chatta, Dabbi, Anarkali of the old city, and Liberty and Gulberg main market in modern Lahore. These markets supply everything that could possibly or impossibly want; from cloth to copper, brass and silver-ware; watches and bangles to carpets, chapatis and chai. |  Lahore Fort (Shahi Qila)
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All is color, all variety, all abundance, and all displayed to entice. Lahore is country's undisputed centre of cultural life. Communication There is a network of metalled roads in the district. It is connected other major cities and towns with a very sophisticated network of roads. It is also connected with the capital of Pakistan and other major cities through the M2 Motroway link. The Lahore Railway station is one of the oldest station in the country, and serves as the main connecting point for rail services to many cities and routes. The station building is another example of the magnificant architectural beauty of the city. There is an International Airport in the cantonment area, P.I.A. and other international airlines have routes to all major destinations of the world. Lahore airport is one of the busiest airport of the country after Karachi international terminal. A newly built international terminal, Allama Iqbal International Terminal, helps in the locomotion of passengers to other countries. It greatly facilitate and improves the air transits to and from the Lahore city. * All figures and stats are approximate | |||||
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[edit] NYC is not UNIQUE for 24-hour transit system
Both the Chicago Red and Blue lines of the L run 24 hours. That makes NYC's mass transit system not "unique" for the availability of 24-hour mass transit. My change reflecting this was reverted without reason. Please discuss.--Loodog (talk) 21:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
- I don't approve of the new sentence either. "New York is notable among American cities, along with Chicago, for its high use and 24-hour availability of mass transit, and for the overall density and diversity of its population. "
- Chicago doesn't have anywhere near the transit ridership of NYC, and now it looks like density and diversity are being applied to Chicago as well. How about "New York is unique among American cities for its high use and 24-hour availability[footnote mentioning Chicago] of mass transit, and for the overall density and diversity of its population."--Loodog (talk) 20:50, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
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- With a little time and thought, you could probably fish around your own vocabulary, or if necessary a thesaurus, to find a word that expresses the intended sense better than "unique" ("remarkable"?) —— Shakescene (talk) 05:11, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
- For example something like (I'm not working here, just throwing stuff off the top of my head and imperfect memory): "Among the characteristics that so strongly distinguish [or mark off] New York from other U.S. cities are..." —— Shakescene (talk) 05:15, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
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The current sentence sounds as if 100% of the mass transit system is open 24 hours a day. This is obviously not true. Many New York City Bus routes don't operate 24/7. However, the New York City Subway system does run 24 hours a day, save for a portion of the BMT Nassau Street Line (the only exception I know currently), as well as PATH, Staten Island Ferry and Staten Island Railway. The 24-hour availability of mass transit is applicable to most of the city within a walking distance of such routes, but not to major portions of Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. A safer sentence, perhaps, should suggest that (most of) the subway, etc. runs 24/7. I am not suggesting a particular phrasing; but I hope I can shed some light here. Tinlinkin (talk) 18:31, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
- A valid point. How about "New York is notable among American cities for its high use of mass transit, much of which runs 24 hours..."?--Loodog (talk) 04:25, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Sister Cities' importance
Why Sister Cities have the same level of importance that history or geography.? Alakasam (talk) 12:56, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- Probably because they don't seem to fit well into any other section. Sister Cities is a common standard feature in Wikipedia's city articles. —— Shakescene (talk) 16:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
It may be misleading to say that all of them are the largest cities in their respective country except for Beijing because that might not include the entire metropolitan area. For example, the Tel Aviv metro area is 3 times the size of the Jerusalem metro area. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.108.211.120 (talk) 05:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
- Very good point. However, the sister city relationship is usually between New York City and an equivalent municipality or authority abroad, rather than between the New York Metropolitan Area and a demographic equivalent. In general, the equivalent body is the central city, rather than a surrounding region that often bears the same name (which is why I deleted that column from this table, e.g. Madrid and Comunidad de Madrid). The exception seems to be London, where the NYC page on sister cities seems to refer equally to the historic square-mile City of London, headed by the ceremonial Lord Mayor of London, and to the Greater London Authority, whose mayors have been Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson. I'll see if there's a concise way of making the population comparison clearer. —— Shakescene (talk) 20:17, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] New York- birthplace of punk?
Birthplace of Punk? Surely claiming in the opening few parahraphs, that New York is the birth place of Punk is incorrect? It is generally, if not universally acknowledged, that London is the origin of this movement. Wikipedia article on Punk also supports this claim.
(New York is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art, abstract expressionism (also known as the New York School) in painting, and hip hop,[14] punk,[15] salsa, disco and Tin Pan Alley in music. It is the home of Broadway theater.)
Should this paragraph be amended?
92.11.167.149 (talk) 12:39, 3 June 2009 (UTC)tf
Why are The Ramones not mentioned? The Ramones lived in Forest Hills in Queens and the band originated in Forest Hills. Same for Simon and Garfunkel, they lived in Kew Gardens in Queens and attended Forest Hills High School (the Ramones attended Forest Hills High School as well). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lilytaz (talk • contribs) 17:53, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Sections
What if each section of this article was split into a subpage of New York City and transcluded onto New York City, to reduce page size? mynameinc (t|c|p) 19:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Top 25 Fortune 500 Companies section needs updating
Today is the first time I've read through the page and I noticed that the Top 25 companies in New York still includes a bunch of financial firms that have collapsed in the last 12 months....is there 2008 data that can be used to update the listing?
Pilot 2023 (talk) 17:05, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
- Yes, there are and I've already started collecting and formatting the data, but haven't got around to deciding and posting a final form. One consideration is exactly what you mentioned: what exactly were the effects of the financial crash on all those financial firms in Manhattan? One surprising answer is that AIG was still in the top 30 (but not the top 25) in March 2009 when Fortune composed this year's list. My difficulty is deciding how much of that to include without overloading the table with too many footnotes and too much information (relative to the balance, format and already huge size of the entire article). To see where I am now, see User:Shakescene/sandbox5. For example, should I lengthen the list to 30? Do I add a column to compare years? Would this bloat the table and thus destroy the deliberate spareness and simplicity of my design for this page (as compared to the more complete one at Economy of New York City? Your views, and those of any other readers or editors are of course welcome and useful. And, of course, you also have the right, as does any editor, to update the list on his or her own if you wish. —— Shakescene (talk) 19:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
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- Based on your working copy I don't think it would be that bad to expand the list to 30 and have the ranking comparison between 2008 and 2007. Considering the precipitous fall of some companies, I think having both years would add value to the list - not everyone may have the interest to read through the whole economy article. As for the effects of the crash I imagine they have been well-documented in other articles; if there are data sources for specific effects on the city, go for it. -- Pilot 2023 (talk) 19:38, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
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- After playing with a couple of alternatives, such as including Global 500 ranks (see User:Shakescene/sandbox5, I decided to use the simplest update format for the top 25 companies without comparisons to the Global 500 or to previous years. I still have to decide how much information to put into an updated table at Economy of New York City. —— Shakescene (talk) 11:04, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
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[edit] Crime statistics incorrect
The Crime section currently states that in 2007 NYC recorded 801 murders. In fact, in 2007, NYC recorded only 496 murders (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City). The 801 statistic was for New York State as a whole, not NYC.
Thanks, Greg
Greggyd224 (talk) 13:10, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
NEW YORK CITY LIFE
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| Nickname(s): The Big Apple, Gotham, The City That Never Sleeps, The Capital of The World (Caput Mundi), The Empire City, The City So Nice They Named It Twice, The City. | |||
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| Coordinates: 40°43′N 74°00′W / 40.717°N 74°WCoordinates: 40°43′N 74°00′W / 40.717°N 74°W | |||
| Country | United States | ||
| State | New York | ||
| Boroughs | The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island | ||
| Settled | 1624 | ||
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| - Mayor | Michael Bloomberg (I) | ||
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| - City | 468.9 sq mi (1,214.4 km2) | ||
| - Land | 304.8 sq mi (789.4 km2) | ||
| - Water | 165.6 sq mi (428.8 km2) | ||
| - Urban | 3,352.6 sq mi (8,683.2 km2) | ||
| - Metro | 6,720 sq mi (17,405 km2) | ||
| Elevation | 33 ft (10 m) | ||
| Population (July 1, 2008)[1] | |||
| - City | 8,363,710 | ||
| - Density | 27,440/sq mi (10,606/km2) | ||
| - Urban | 18,223,567 | ||
| - Metro | 19,006,798 | ||
| - Demonym | New Yorker | ||
| Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | ||
| - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | ||
| ZIP codes | 100xx-104xx, 11004-05, 111xx-114xx, 116xx | ||
| Area code(s) | 212, 718, 917, 347, 646 | ||
| Website | www.nyc.gov | ||
New York (
/nuːˈjɔrk/ (help·info)) is the most populous city in the United States, and the center of the New York metropolitan area, which is among the most populous urban areas in the world. A leading global city, New York exerts a powerful influence over worldwide commerce, finance, culture, fashion and entertainment. As host of the United Nations headquarters, it is also an important center for international affairs. The city is often referred to as New York City to differentiate it from the state of New York, of which it is a part.
Located on a large natural harbor on the Atlantic coast of the Northeastern United States, the city consists of five boroughs: The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island. The city's 2007 estimated population exceeds 8.3 million people,[2] and with a land area of 305 square miles (790 km2),[3][4] New York City is the most densely populated major city in the United States.[5] The New York metropolitan area's population is also the nation's largest, estimated at 18.8 million people over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km2).[6]
New York was founded as a commercial trading post by the Dutch in 1624. The settlement was called New Amsterdam until 1664 when the colony came under English control.[7] New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790.[8] It has been the country's largest city since 1790.[9]
Many neighborhoods and landmarks in the city have become world-famous. The Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Wall Street, in Lower Manhattan, has been a dominant global financial center since World War II and is home to the New York Stock Exchange. The city has been home to several of the tallest buildings in the world, including the Empire State Building and the twin towers of the former World Trade Center.
The City is the birthplace of many cultural movements, including the Harlem Renaissance in literature and visual art, abstract expressionism (also known as the New York School) in painting, and hip hop,[10] punk,[11] salsa, disco and Tin Pan Alley in music. It is the home of Broadway theater.
New York is notable among American cities for its high use of mass transit, most of which runs 24 hours per day, and for the overall density and diversity of its population. In 2005, nearly 170 languages were spoken in the city and 36% of its population was born outside the United States.[12][13] The city is sometimes referred to as "The City that Never Sleeps", while other nicknames include Gotham[14] and the Big Apple.[15]
