Generally identified by convention rather than any strict criteria, up to seven regions are commonly regarded as continents. Ordered from largest in area to smallest, these seven regions are: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia.

Use an acrostic as a mnemonic device. Another phrase to help you remember the continents is “SEAN got three AAAs,” where “SEAN” stands for “South America, Europe, Asia, and North America” and “AAA” stands for Australia, Antarctica, and Africa.

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There are seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia (listed from largest to smallest in size).

The map of the seven continents encompasses North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica….7 Continents.

48 countries

Australia

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By many accounts, the Republic of San Marino, one of the world’s smallest countries, is also the world’s oldest country. The tiny country that is completely landlocked by Italy was founded on September 3rd in the year 301 BCE.

Most new cities today come into existence when rural or suburban unincorporated areas decide to incorporate as a city. Some may incorporate to control their own destiny rather than be controlled by another local city or governmental entity, such as a county government.

10 Things Every City Needs

• Well Balanced Neighbourhood Development.
• Reliable Transit System.
• Green Space.
• Community Centres/Meeting Places.
• Bike & Pedestrian Infrastructure.
• Community Gardens & Local Agriculture.
• Arts & Culture.
• Pedestrian Friendly Public Spaces.

Though each state has its own rules on “municipal incorporation,” in general you’ll need to get 51 percent of the eligible voters in the area to go along with you. (It’s easiest to start a town from scratch, as opposed to by secession; most upstarts begin as “unincorporated communities” within a larger county.)

A city is a large human settlement. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process.

Features of Smart Cities

• adequate water supply,
• assured electricity supply,
• sanitation, including solid waste management,
• efficient urban mobility and public transport,
• affordable housing, especially for the poor,
• robust IT connectivity and digitalization,

The core infrastructure elements in a Smart City would include – adequate water supply, assured electricity supply, sanitation, including solid waste management, efficient urban mobility and public transport, affordable housing, especially for the poor, robust IT connectivity and digitalization, good governance.

Smart City Features Combining automation, machine learning and the IoT is allowing for the adoption of smart city technologies for a variety of applications. For example, smart parking can help drivers find a parking space and also allow for digital payment.

Smart city is envisaged to have four pillars, its Social Infrastructure, Physical Infrastructure, Institutional Infrastructure (including Governance) and Economic Infrastructure. The centre of attention for each of these pillars is the citizen.

Smart cities use data and technology to create efficiencies, improve sustainability, create economic development, and enhance quality of life factors for people living and working in the city. It also means that the city has a smarter energy infrastructure.

Smart Cities of the future: 7 things that successful cities do

• Realizing the Smart City dream fully.
• Holistic Smart City development (rather than application-specific)
• Citizens-come-first mindset.
• Alignment with government initiatives.
• Long-term vision.
• Sustainability as top priority.
• Public-Private-Partnership programs.

Chandigarh bagged the award for union territories, while Indore won the “Innovative Idea Award”. According to the ministry, Ahmedabad bagged the ‘Smart Cities Leadership Award’, followed by Varanasi and Ranchi in the second and third spots respectively.

The IMD World Competitiveness Center’s Smart City Observatory, in partnership with Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), are proud to present the first edition of the IMD Smart City Index 2019, which ranks 102 cities worldwide.

New Delhi is the capital of India and is the first Union Territory to be developed as a smart city by the government. It is a cosmopolitan city and National festivals like Republic day and Independence Day are celebrated in this city by the Indian government.

Singapore is the smartest city in the world, according to the IMD’s inaugural Smart City Index. Its Smart Nation initiative was launched in 2014 by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, and three years later benefited from a government injection of SGD$2.4 billion (then equivalent to US$1.73 billion).

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