Places by nickname #2

Given below is a list of nicknames or alternative names for countries, cities, and other places. Can you guess the geographical area each nickname represents?

I used a number of sources, but this one was especially useful: - 30 City Nicknames from Around the World.

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Nickname	Place
Blighty	United Kingdom
Canton	Guangzhou
Carthage	Tunis
City of Lights	Nagasaki
City of Wisdom	Bagdad
Detroit of Asia	Chennai
Emerald of the Equator	Indonesia
Eternal City	Rome
Garden State	New Jersey
Humanity's birthplace	Great Rift Valley
Isle of Beauty	Corsica
Lands of Prester John	Ethiopia
Las Vegas of the Orient	Macau

Nickname	Place
Leopoldville	Kinshasa
Marvelous City	Rio de Janeiro
Nonstop City	Tel Aviv
Peace Capital	Geneva
Queen of the Midlands	Nottingham
Red Island	Madagascar
Second Rome	Istanbul
Southland	Los Angeles metropolitan area
Third Rock from the Sun	Earth
Usonia	United States
Venice of the North	Amsterdam
Welthauptstadt Germania	Berlin