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List Of City Flags In Asia
This page lists the city flags in Asia. It is a part of the Lists of city flags, which is split into continent A continent is any of several large geographical regions. Continents are generally identified by convention (norm), convention rather than any strict criteria. A continent could be a single large landmass, a part of a very large landmass, as ...s due to its size. Asian Russia Flag of Abakan (Khakassia).png, Flag of Achinsk (Krasnoyarsk krai).png, Flag of Angarsk (Irkutsk oblast).png, Flag of Artyom (Primorsky kray).svg, Flag of Barnaul (2021).jpg, Flag of Blagoveshchensk.svg, Flag of Bratsk (Irkutsk oblast).png, Flag of Chelyabinsk.svg, Flag of Chita (Chita oblast).svg, Flag of Irkutsk (Irkutsk oblast).svg, Flag of Kamensk-Uralsky (Sverdlovsk oblast).png, Flag of Kemerovo.svg, Flag of Khabarovsk.svg, Flag of Khanty-Mansiysk.svg, Флаг Комсомольска-на-Амуре.svg, Flag of Kopeysk (Chelyabinsk oblast).svg, Flag of Krasnoyarsk. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of City Flags
The list of city flags lists the flags of cities. Most of the city flags are based on the coat of arms or emblems of its city itself, and city flags can be also used by the coat of arms and emblems on its flag. Most of the city flags are flown outside town halls and councils. Due to its size, the list is split into continents: * List of city flags in Africa * List of base flags in Antarctica * List of city flags in Asia * List of city flags in Europe * List of city flags in North America * List of city flags in Oceania * List of city flags in South America __NOTOC__ Flags of the largest cities Cities with metropolitan area populations of five million; largest cities without their own city flag are not included. File:Flag of Tokyo Metropolis.svg, Most populated city in the world; File:Flag of Delhi Capital Territory.svg, File:Bandeira da cidade de São Paulo.svg, File:Flag of Mexico City, Mexico.svg, File:Flag of Osaka, Osaka.svg, File:Flag of New York City.svg, File:Band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kopeysk
Kopeysk () is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located southeast of Chelyabinsk. Population: The population growth between 2002 and 2010 was caused by the annexation of surrounding settlements. History Prior to 1928, this city was called Ugolnye Kopi, meaning ''coal mines'' (hence the pick on the city's coat of arms). The element "Ugolnye" was removed and the suffix "-sk" was added to indicate the locative. Economy Until the 1990s the main economic sectors were Coal (with mines such as "Capital",Currently, all the mines are closed due to the low quality of the coal and the high costs of production. "Komsomolskaya", "Red Gornyachka", and "Central") and mechanical engineering – Kopeysk Machine-Building plant headquarter, the largest producer of coal and salt mining equipment in Russia, is located in this city. In recent years Kopejsk has developed a diversified economy. The city recorded more than 1,000 industrial enterprises and more than 7,000 private entrepreneur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novokuznetsk
Novokuznetsk (, , ; )Чиспияков Э. Ф. (1992) ''Учебник шорского языка''. Кемеровское книжное издательство. p. 27. is a city in Kemerovo Oblast (Kuzbass) in southwestern Siberia, Russia. It is the second-largest city in the oblast, after the administrative center Kemerovo. Population: It was previously known as ''Kuznetsk'' until 1932 and as ''Stalinsk'' until 1961. History Founded in 1618 by men from Tomsk as a Cossack '' ostrog'' (fort) on the Tom River, it was initially called ''Kuznetsky ostrog'' (). It became the seat of Kuznetsky Uyezd in 1622. ''Kuznetsk'' () was granted town status in 1689. It was here that Fyodor Dostoevsky married his first wife, Maria Isayeva in 1857. Joseph Stalin's rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union transformed the sleepy town into a major coal mining and industrial center in the 1930s. It merged with Sad Gorod in 1931. From 1931 to 1932, the city was known as ''Novokuznetsk'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norilsk
Norilsk ( rus, Нори́льск, p=nɐˈrʲilʲsk) is a closed city in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located south of the western Taymyr Peninsula, around 90 km east of the Yenisei, Yenisey River and 1,500 km north of Krasnoyarsk. Norilsk is 300 km north of the Arctic Circle and 2,400 km from the North Pole. It has a permanent population of 176,735 as of 2024, and up to 220,000 including temporary inhabitants. It is the second-largest city in the region after Krasnoyarsk. Since 2016, Norilsk's population has grown steadily. In 2017, for the first time, migration to the city exceeded outflow. In 2018, according to Krasnoyarskstat, natural population growth amounted to 1,357 people: 2,381 were born, and 1,024 died. It is the world's List of northernmost items#Cities and settlements, northernmost city with more than 180,000 inhabitants, and the second-largest city (after Murmansk) inside the Arctic Circle. Norilsk and Yakutsk are the only large cities in the continuous permafrost zon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nizhny Tagil
Nizhny Tagil ( rus, Нижний Тагил, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj tɐˈgʲil) is a classification of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located east of the Boundaries between the continents#Asia and Europe, boundary between Asia and Europe. Demographics History The history of Nizhny Tagil dates back to the mid-16th century, when the Stroganovs received the right to possess land by the Kama (river), Kama and Chusovaya basins. In 1579 they founded the first settlement, the Utkin sloboda (settlement), sloboda, by the river Utka, the mouth of Chusoya. Fateyevo, the first Russian village in the Tagil region, was founded in 1665. In 1696, by the order of Tsar Peter the Great, the Vysokogorsky iron ore quarry was opened. Voevode Dmitry Protasyev was elected to search for iron and magnetic ores. The deposits were particularly rich, and included lodes of pure magnetic iron. The surrounding landscape provided everything needed for a successful and product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nizhnevartovsk
Nizhnevartovsk ( rus, Нижневартовск, p=nʲɪʐnʲɪˈvartəfsk) is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra, Russia. Since the 1960s, the Western Siberian oil boom has led to Nizhnevartovsk's rapid growth from a small settlement to a city due to its location beside the Samotlor oil field along the right bank of the Ob River, from the border with Tomsk Oblast, and the presence of the petroleum industry has made it one of the wealthiest cities in Russia. Nizhnevartovsk is one of the few cities in Russia that exceeds the population of the administrative center of its federal subject. Population: Etymology Physical and geographical characteristics Geographical location Nizhnevartovsk is located in the Sredneobskaya lowland of the West Siberian plain in the middle reaches of the Ob river on its right Bank. Moscow time+2 (Yekaterinburg time) Nizhnevartovsk, like the entire district, is located in the Moscow time zone+2 (Yekaterinburg time). The offset ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nefteyugansk
Nefteyugansk () is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located south of the Ob River, close to the larger city of Surgut. Population: History It was founded on October 16, 1967, after an oil field had been discovered on a small forest clearing in the middle of the taiga marshland in 1961. The main and the only big enterprise in the city, ''Yuganskneftegaz'', was founded in February 1966. The name 'Yugansk' comes from the indigenous Khanty name of a small river near the city, ''neft means oil in Russian, and ''gaz'' is natural gas. The economy of the city remains petroleum-based, and was a major center for the Russian oil enterprise ''YUKOS'', which owned ''Yuganskneftegaz''. In fact, the "Yu" in "YUKOS" comes from the "yu" in "Nefteyugansk" and therefore from " Yuganskneftegaz". The other three letters come from the oil-refining factory "Kuibyshev-Org-Sintez", situated in Samara. On June 26, 1998, city mayor Vladimir Petukhov was shot dead on the way to his of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nakhodka
Nakhodka ( rus, Нахо́дка, p=nɐˈxotkə, means "''finding''") is a port city in Primorsky Krai, Russia, located on the Trudny Peninsula jutting into the Nakhodka Bay of the Sea of Japan, about east of Vladivostok (169 kilometers by ca, the administrative center of the krai. Population: History The Nakhodka Bay, around which the city is organized, was first known to the Russians on the corvette '' Amerika'', which sought shelter in the bay during a storm in 1859. In honor of this occasion, the ice-free and relatively calm bay was named Nakhodka, which in Russian means "discovery" or "lucky find". An imperial settlement existed here from 1868 to 1872 but was abandoned following the death of its administrator, Harald Furuhjelm. In the fall of 1870, Otto Wilhelm Lindholm established a whaling station across the bay from the settlement. In the spring of 1871 he fitted out his schooner ''Hannah Rice'' and sailed to Posyet, where he caught six gray whales.Lindholm, O. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miass
Miass (, ) is a city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, located west of Chelyabinsk, on the eastern slope of the Southern Ural Mountains, on the bank of the river Miass. Population: Name The name Miass is taken from the Bashkirs (), the indigenous inhabitants of these places, with the root of the word meaning "water" or "friend". History It was founded in 1773 as a copper mining factory. During the 19th century, the development was driven by the discovery of the richest gold deposits in the Urals. Average annual extraction of gold from the Miass region was about . In the mid-19th century, the volume of gold mining went down, and the development of Miass also slowed. Town status was granted to Miass in 1923. In 1941, an automobile factory (which still operates as UralAZ) was built. Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with twenty-eight rural localities, incorporated as the City of Miass—an administrative uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo Oblast
Mezhdurechensk ( rus, Междуреченск, p=mʲɪʐdʊˈrʲetɕɪnsk; ) is a city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. Population: History It was established in 1948 and granted town status in 1955. Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed near the city in 1994. Victory Day celebrations were cancelled in the city after the nearby Raspadskaya mine explosion killed 91 people in 2010.http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews.shtml?/20100510130321.shtml RBC Information Systems Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Mezhdurechensk serves as the administrative center of Mezhdurechensky District, even though is not a part of it.Law #215-OZ As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as Mezhdurechensk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with a status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the territories of Mezhdurechensk City Under Oblast Jurisdiction and of Mezhdurechensky District are incorporat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magnitogorsk
Magnitogorsk ( rus, Магнитого́рск, p=məɡnʲɪtɐˈɡorsk, ) is an industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, on the eastern side of the extreme southern extent of the Ural Mountains by the Ural River. Its population is currently . Magnitogorsk was named after Magnetic Mountain, Mount Magnitnaya, a geological anomaly that once consisted almost completely of iron ore, around 55% to 60% iron. It is the second-largest city in Russia that is not the administrative centre of any federal subjects of Russia, federal subject or raion#Administrative districts, district. Magnitogorsk contains the largest iron and steel works in the country: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. The official motto of the city is "the place where Europe and Asia meet", as the city occupies land in both Europe and Asia. Magnitogorsk is one of only two planned Socialist realism, socialist realist settlements ever built (the other being Nowa Huta in Poland). History Foundation Magnitogorsk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leninsk-Kuznetsky (city)
Leninsk-Kuznetsky (, ), known as Kolchugino (, ) until 1925, is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, located on both banks of the Inya River (Ob River, Ob's tributary). The population as of 2021 is 92,244. Administrative and municipal status Within the subdivisions of Russia#Administrative divisions, framework of administrative divisions, Leninsk-Kuznetsky serves as the administrative center of Leninsk-Kuznetsky District, even though it is not a part of it.Law #215-OZ As an administrative division, it is, together with two types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural localities, incorporated separately as Leninsk-Kuznetsky City of federal subject significance, City Under Oblast Jurisdiction—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the administrative divisions of Kemerovo Oblast, districts. As a subdivisions of Russia#Municipal divisions, municipal division, Leninsk-Kuznetsky City Under Oblast Jurisdiction is incorporate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
