Eurasian Cities

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Overview

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An

Vorkuta

Murmansk

Se v. D

Stockholm Helsinki Tallinn

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A

Ufa

Tula

Kiev r

MOLDOVA

Chisinau

Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk

Odessa

ROMANIA

on

Bucharest

al

Volgograd

Danub

Aktau

Ankara

Bursa

Konya

5

Adana

Van Gaziantep

AZERBAIJAN Tabriz

Baku

I

R

A

Mashhad

N

i

Hotan

TAJIKISTAN

Dushanbe

Bukhara

arya

TURKMENISTAN Ashgabat

Gorgan

Rasht

Teheran

uD

Kashgar

C H I N A

Herat

Mazar-e Sharif

Kabul

AFGHANISTAN

Islamabad

Srinagar INDIA

Peshawar Lahore PAKISTAN Indus

Antalya

1

Yerevan

T U R K E Y

Izmir

Population

Trabzon

Am

Turkmenbashi

KYRGYZSTAN Osh Fergana

Samarkand

Caspian Sea

Tbilissi ARMENIA

UZBEKISTAN

Makhachkala

GEORGIA

Istanbul Samsun

Shymkent

Tashkent Nukus

Grozny

Black Sea

Burgas

Bishkek

Syr Da rya

Aral Sea

Atyrau

Simferopol

e

Almaty Aksu

Krasnodar

BULGARIA

Ili

K A Z A K H S T A N

Astrakhan

Rostov-on-Don

Shihezi

Karaganda

Lake Balkash

Ur

nie pe

Voronezh

D

U K R AD I N E

Kostanay

Aktobe

Saratov

Semipalatinsk

Astana

Orenburg

Penza

Volga

BELARUS

Samara

MONG.

Irty sh

Petropavlovsk

Kazan

Ulyanovsk

Barnaul

Ob

Chelyabinsk

Nizhny Novgorod

Ryazan

Minsk

n Ye

Omsk

Tob ol

S

Yaroslavl

LITHUANIA RUS. Vilnius Kaliningrad

Lviv

U

Yekatarinburg

Moscow

LATVIA

POLAND

R

Lake Onega

Saint Petersburg

Riga

Kemerovo

Novosibirsk v in a

Ishim

ESTONIA

Abakan

Tomsk

ise

FINLAND

Surgut

Ob

Arkhangelsk

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Umea

Sofia

Krasnoyarsk

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SWEDEN

Warsaw

Bratsk

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Tromso NORWAY

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Population density (inhabitants per km2) Population trend increase decrease stagnation 10,000,000

5,000,000

2,000,000

1,000,000

100,000 500,000

Population in urban centres

growth of informal settlements

Source: World Bank data.

c­ omplement Moscow—St. Petersburg and Kiev—while exports of the rest of Eurasia remained concentrated on traditional products and trading partners, reinforcing the largest cities’ role as production and transportation hubs.

Eurasian Cities Need Better Planning, Better Connectivity, and Better Greening In the post-Soviet era, the proximity to the EU market and the deeper integration shaped the internal geography of Central and Eastern


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