Statistics for Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions #2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
It became the capital after Emperor Meiji moved his seat to the city from Kyoto	Tokyo	94%
A sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia	Singapore	92%
Is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions	Jerusalem	91%
In preparation for the 2008 Summer Olympics and to fulfill promises to clean up the city's air, nearly US $17 billion was spent	Beijing	88%
The victorious powers divided the city into four sectors	Berlin	81%
The capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia	Perth	79%
Although the name Sài Gòn is still widely used	Ho Chi Minh City	77%
It was home to the world's first psychoanalyst – Sigmund Freud	Vienna	77%
The old city that is now simply referred to as Tenochtitlan was built on an island	Mexico City	73%
The centre of an explosion of philosophic and scientific activity known as the Age of Enlightenment	Paris	73%
The city stretches across fourteen islands where Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea	Stockholm	64%
A cosmopolitan urban civilisation in the Himalayan foothills	Kathmandu	62%
Often referred to as 'Nollywood'	Lagos	56%
Situated on the Adriatic Sea, the city always traded extensively with the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world	Venice	54%
Was planned and developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956	Brasilia	53%
One of the most famous buildings in the world, the mausoleum of Shah Jahan's favourite wife	Agra	50%
Was founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535	Lima	50%
It is located on the Cap-Vert peninsula on the Atlantic coast and is the westernmost city on the African mainland	Dakar	44%
Situated at the mouth of the River Liffey	Dublin	43%
Home to the Hermitage, one of the largest art museums in the world	Saint Petersburg	42%
Amharic: አዲስ አበባ	Addis Ababa	35%
As part of the War of 1812, the Battle of York ended in the town's capture and plunder by United States forces	Toronto	26%