Sentence examples for settlements in the world from inspiring English sources

Each of these cities is among the fastest-growing settlements in the world.

It all began, though, in Nagada, one of the oldest inhabited settlements in the world.

I have just spent two days in Barcelona, one of the most densely populated urban settlements in the world.

What he had stumbled upon is now viewed as one of the most important prehistoric settlements in the world.

Tourist brochures have long described Varanasi, India's holiest city and one of the oldest continually inhabited settlements in the world, as "eternal" or "unchanging".

You tend to feel that Dharavi remains one of the biggest informal urban settlements in the world because it has been neglected for so long.

The town is seventeen thousand feet above sea level — the highest-elevation human settlement in the world.

Totnes in Devon might be the most forward-thinking eco settlement in the world.

That it was once the third largest Jewish settlement in the world after the Lower East Side and Warsaw -- a vibrant hub of industry, artistry and wealth -- is all but forgotten.

But in the centuries after its founding in around 2900 BC, Memphis became by some estimates the biggest settlement in the world.

Up to 1,000 Somalis a day are also streaming across the Kenyan border to Dadaab, already the largest refugee settlement in the world, with 367,000 residents.