Cities With Outlying Islands
- Almería, a city on the southern Mediterranean Sea coast of Spain. While most of it is on the European mainland, it includes Isla de Alborán, which is closer to Africa than to the Spanish mainland. 19.4% of the city's area is African.
- Caracas, the capital and largest city of the South American nation of Venezuela. It administers the Caribbean island Federal dependencies of Venezuela, including Isla Aves, sometimes associated with North America.
- Tokyo, the capital and largest city of the Asian island nation of Japan. The Japanese Pacific islands to its south and southeast, including the Oceanian island of Minami Torishima, are part of it. Whether it is considered a transcontinental city is contingent on whether Oceania is considered a continent. These outlying islands form the Ogasawara Village, which consists of Asian and Oceanian islands.
Read more about this topic: List Of Cities Spanning More Than One Continent
Famous quotes containing the words cities, outlying and/or islands:
“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats ... these are the facts.”
—Alexander Trocchi (1925–1983)
“In my utter impotence to test the authenticity of the report of my senses, to know whether the impressions they make on me correspond with outlying objects, what difference does it make, whether Orion is up there in heaven, or some god paints the image in the firmament of the soul?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)