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Houston is the fourth-largest US city by population and the principal commercial centre of the Texas Gulf Coast, anchoring the world's most substantial oil-and-gas-energy industry corporate-headquarte…
Amman is the capital and largest city of Jordan and the principal commercial-political-and-cultural anchor of the country, sitting on a series of seven hills (subsequently expanded to many more) in th…
Iranian branch of Indo-European, split across dialects and scripts -- Latin in Turkey and Syria, Arabic-based in Iraq and Iran -- reflecting the political division of Kurdish-speaking regions across f…