The above Placemark is for a tour of the Top 100 from this list, divided into subtours of 10, Hope you enjoy.

I have added tidbits of info about most cities, to make it a learning experience.
So take a few minutes to stop the tour at each city and explore.



(Tour tips: To slow or speed it up goto "Tools" then down to "Options" then click the "control' tab. Here you can control tour pause and by checking advanced you can control speed also.)

More to follow, so keep checking back as I work on a 1,000 city tour

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Have you visited them all yet?
Major cities of the world

Bombay ( Mumbai ) India
Karachi Pakistan
Delhi India
Shanghai China
Moscow ( Moskva ) Russia
Seoul ( Soul ) South Korea
Sao Paulo ( S�o Paulo ) Brazil
Istanbul Turkey
Lima Peru
( Ciudad de M�xico ) Mexico City Mexico
Jakarta Indonesia
New York United States of America
Tokyo Japan
Beijing China
( Al-Qahirah ) Cairo Egypt
Tehran Iran
Ar-Riyad Saudi Arabia
London England
Bogota Bogot� Colombia
Lagos Nigeria
Baghdad Iraq
Bangkok Thailand
Lahore Pakistan
( Dacca ) Dhaka Bangladesh
Rio de Janeiro Brazil
Bangalore India
Wuhan China
Tianjin ( Tientsin ) China
Canton ( Guangzhou ) China
Toronto Canada
Jiddah Saudi Arabia
Abidjan C�te d'Ivoire
Chongqing ( Chungking ) China
Santiago Chile
Calcutta ( Kolkata ) India
Singapore
Chennai ( Madras ) India
Leningrad ( Sankt-Peterburg ), St. Petersburg Russia
Shenyang China
Los Angeles ( El Rio de Nuestra Senora la Reina de Los Angeles de Porciuncula: (Really ) ) United States of America
Ahmadabad India
( Busan ) Pusan South Korea
Alexandria ( Al-Iskandariyah ) Egypt
Hyderabad India
Ankara Turkey
P'yongyang North Korea
Yokohama Japan
Montr�al Canada
Casablanca ( Dar-el-Beida ) Morocco
Ho Chi Minh City ( Saigon ), Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh Vietnam
Berlin Germany
Nanjing ( Nanking ) China
( Addis Abeba ) Adis Abba Ethiopia
Poona ( Pune ) India
Medell�n Colombia
Kano Nigeria
Omdurman ( Umm Durman ) Sudan
Surat India
Madrid Spain
Sian Xi'an China
Chicago United States of America
Kanpur India
Havana ( La Habana ) Cuba
Jaipur India
Nairobi Kenya
arbin China
Buenos Aires Argentina
Incheon ( Inch'o )South Korea
Surabaya Indonesia
Kiev Kyyiv Ukraine
Hangchou ( Hangzhou) China
Salvador Brazil
Taipei T'aipei, Taipeh Taiwan
Hai Phong Haiphong Vietnam
Dar es Salaam Tanzania
Daegu Taegu South Korea
Bekasi Indonesia
Chengdu ( Chengtu ) China
Osaka Japan
Karaj Iran
Al-Jizah Giza Egypt
Ibadan Nigeria
Izmir Turkey
Rome Roma Italy
Faisalabad Lyallpur Pakistan
Lucknow India

Quezon City Philippines
San'a' Yemen
Changchun China
Cali Colombia
Cape Town ( Kaapstad ) South Africa
Belo Horizonte Brazil
Fortaleza Brazil
Mashhad Iran
Namp'o North Korea
Aleppo Halab Syria
Dairen ( Dalian ) China
Nagpur India

Before most of us have been able to detect it, what we have been calling a city has already changed. I�m not referring to the medieval walled city, which has been long dead.

I�m discussing the modern or contemporary city, which has culturally, politically, and physically metamorphosed beyond previous standards for recognition.
To some, this transformation has warranted the creation of new terms. In the past, the word metropolis was used to describe the extended twentieth century gridiron, which bristled with skyscrapers. Today the term megalopolis is used to describe the bewildering sprawl of mass transit systems, technology parks, entertainment complexes, strip malls, and bedroom communities which extend from older city edges, annihilating previous physical distinctions between city and hinterland, as well as previous geopolitical boundaries.

To the majority, however, the elusive word city still suffices to describe any settlement of particular size and socio-economic significance. The irony is that what we call a city is no longer inherently urban, or suburban, or even exurban. It is all these things and more. We would perhaps do better to describe the countryside, like the goatherd in Calvino�s Cecilia4, or whatever is antithetical to the city.

In any case, what we must realize is that our old definition of city has been modified to address new forms of human development.

Note Before someone jumps on me I know it is not uptodate and perfect, just a list for a world tour at 1:00AM

How about a KMZ for that would make it less tedious for those of us who choose to take your tour.

T.

Good idea, but I wonder how to do it so that it does not result in double pinpoints?

Anyone?

Just put no icon on your placemarks

It would be nice if there was descent resolution imagery of all these cities, I looked at a the list and of the 8 cities in my country, there 3 with partial coverage and another 5 with no good coverage what so ever, I know it sounds like I'm having a rant but I think anyone here on the bbs and anyone else using GE would love to see good imagery of that entire list of cities..... Yes, I'm hinting...

Wouldnt it be nice if we could have all those cities at good resolution with the next database upgrade?

Jeffryv Hits himself in the forehead for being a Dumb Bunny!!!
Thank You TheRealMcCoy

I agree XzOrzeist you would think that some of those larger cities would be an excellent future market.

Major World Cities #1-10


To view tour
Double click on
"Open this Placemark" which is in little tiny writing just above.
This will install a Folder in Google Earth under
Places
-Temporary Place
---100 Major World Cities
Click on "Major World Cities #1-10 folder"
it will open, then click " Play tour" button which can be found on the botton right corner of "Places"

Enjoy Exploring the world!!!

1 Bombay ( Mumbai ) India Overlay By Yogendra Mumbai Placemark Collection Here By GEC member JoshiPS
2 Karachi Pakistan Karachi Placemarks By member ramizq1
3 Delhi India Interesting Places By rakeshagrawal
4 Shanghai China Placemark collection by GEC member pinetao
5 Moscow ( Moskva ) Russia Seer's Best
6 Seoul ( Soul ) South Korea
7 Sao Paulo ( S�o Paulo ) Brazil
8 Istanbul Turkey
9 Lima Peru
10 ( Ciudad de M�xico ) Mexico City Mexico Interesting Places


Seoul ( Soul ) South Korea

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The purpose of this section of our Web site is to show people who are not familiar with Korean food, Seoul, and South Korea in general, what a dog meat farm is

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Update
Some of the cities have new higher res images (Aug 15th 2005)

Wondering where you got this list. I live in Manila and rather than the 1.5M people indicated on the list, the population here at present is closer to 12M. Several of the other figures listed are way off the mark also. FYI