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Most Populous Countries in the World

United Provinces of China - 1,623,574,000
Hindustani Republic - 507,088,000
Republic of Zanzibar - 303,128,000
United States of America - 292,211,000
Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic - 268,351,000
Republic of Bengal - 254,642,000
Republic of Sokoto - 236,248,000
Vietnamese Republic - 163,432,000
Punjabi Republic - 145,121,000
Empire of Maharashtra - 139,035,000
United Meridian States - 136,426,000
Abyssinian Empire - 133,043,000
Persian Republic - 132,371,000
French Republic - 131,324,241
Andhra Workers and Peasants Republic - 96,946,000
Republic of Egypt - 87,311,000
Sociocratic Republic of Tamil Nadu - 84,329,000
Philippine Republic - 83,525,000
Republic of Japan - 83,147,000
British Isles - 82,142,000
Cooperative Republic of Mexico - 79,191,000
Empire of Korea - 76,803,000
Republic of Gujarat - 74,091,000
United Provinces of Buenaventura - 72,162,000
Chokwe Empire - 70,845,000
Empire of the German Nation - 67,315,000

Largest Cities in the World

Rank	City	Country	Type	Metropolitan area population	City proper population
1	Lahore	Punjabi Republic	Metropolitan department	38,408,000	32,700,000
2	Nanjing	United Provinces of China	Province	36,910,000	34,203,000
3	Kolkata	Republic of Bengal	Consolidated city-county	34,899,000	14,915,000
4	Ningpo	United Provinces of China	Municipality	27,108,000	13,039,000
5	Rio de Janeiro	United Meridian States	Municipality	26,610,000	11,540,000
6	Giadinh	Vietnamese Republic	City-state	25,993,000	10,241,000
7	Chongqing	United Provinces of China	Municipality	25,013,000	16,887,000
8	Paris	French Republic	Metropolitan department	24,677,000	9,715,000
9	Moscow	Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic	Metropolitan oblast	24,172,000	17,501,000
10	New York City	United States of America	Municipality	22,385,000	18,590,000
11	Phuxuan	Vietnamese Republic	Municipality	21,017,000	9,219,000
12	Constantinople	Free City of Constantinople	Country	20,785,000	20,785,000
13	Hanseong	Empire of Korea	Province	20,493,000	8,319,000
14	Guangzhou	United Provinces of China	Municipality	20,372,000	14,527,000
15	Djakarta	Republic of Djakarta	Country	19,983,000	19,983,000
16	Fuzhou	United Provinces of China	Municipality	19,885,000	16,180,000
17	Havana	Antillean Confederation	Metropolitan province	19,521,000	9,314,000
18	Lagos	Republic of Lagos	Country	19,252,000	19,252,000
19	Manila	Philippine Republic	Municipality	19,007,000	13,064,000
20	Tehran	Persian Republic	Metropolitan province	18,910,000	12,973,000
21	Sokoto	Republic of Sokoto	Municipality	18,683,000	12,064,000
22	Edo	Republic of Japan	Metropolitan department	18,342,000	7,621,000
23	Namvang	Vietnamese Republic	Municipality	17,992,000	7,238,000
24	Mexico City	Cooperative Republic of Mexico	City-state	17,793,000	9,166,000
25	Mumbai	Empire of Maharashtra	City-state	17,615,000	10,180,000
26	Petrograd	Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic	Metropolitan oblast	17,314,000	12,538,000
27	Hankou	United Provinces of China	Municipality	17,211,000	10,223,000
28	Buenos Aires	Platine Sociocratic Cantonal Republic	City-state	16,981,000	12,731,000
29	Cairo	Republic of Egypt	Metropolitan department	16,761,000	10,785,000
30	Zamboanga	Philippine Republic	City-state	16,473,000	16,473,000
31	Shantou	United Provinces of China	Municipality	16,453,000	7,398,000
32	Baroda	Republic of Gujarat	Municipality	16,064,000	8,628,000
33	Pune	Empire of Maharashtra	Municipality	16,025,000	9,063,000
34	Dali	United Provinces of China	Municipality	15,832,000	9,113,000
35	Ilahabad	Hindustani Republic	Municipality	15,528,000	10,319,000
36	Murshidabad	Republic of Bengal	Municipality	15,231,000	8,937,000
37	Wenzhou	United Provinces of China	Municipality	15,137,000	10,032,000
38	St. Louis	United States of America	Municipality	15,038,000	11,121,000

Largest Cities by Country

Largest Cities in the French Republic

Rank	City	Population	Metropolitan population
1	Paris	9,715,000	24,677,000
2	Aix-la-Chapelle	2,113,000	9,412,000
3	Anvers	1,523,000	3,632,000
4	Marseilles	1,223,000	5,323,000
5	Lille	1,153,000	7,263,000
6	Lyon	1,042,000	6,012,000
7	Cologne	956,000	3,413,000
8	Metz	912,000	4,113,000
9	Toulouse	875,000	2,823,000
10	Strasbourg	811,000	2,573,000
11	Sarrebruck	789,000	2,496,000
12	Bruxelles	749,000	1,912,000
13	Nantes	721,000	2,163,000
14	Nancy	713,000	2,428,000
15	Nice	706,000	2,302,000
16	Bordeaux	681,000	2,463,000
17	Armeville^[1] Saint-Étienne	667,000	1,912,000
18	Geneva	643,000	1,463,000
19	Liège	611,000	1,263,000
20	Grenoble	569,000	1,123,000

Largest Cities in the United States of America

Rank	City	State	City proper	Metropolitan
1	New York City^[1] Does not include Staten Island but does include Westchester, Rockland, and Nassau Counties	New York	18,590,000	22,785,000
2	St. Louis	Missouri	11,121,000	15,038,000
3	Cincinnati	Ohio	8,547,000	10,415,000
4	Richmond	Virginia	7,231,000	7,576,000
5	Charleston	South Carolina	5,991,000	6,291,000
6	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	5,713,000	7,278,000
7	Segovia^[2] Tulsa	Cimarron	4,876,000	5,147,000
8	Black Rock	New York	4,733,000	4,813,000
9	St. Paul	Ontonagon	4,422,000	6,042,000
10	Norfolk^[3] Includes Norfolk and Virginia Beach	Virginia	4,401,000	4,840,000
11	Persitia^[4] Atlanta - Latinization of the indigenous name, Peachtree	Georgia	4,269,000	4,405,000
12	Port Townsend	Olympia	4,239,000	4,428,000
13	Boston	Massachusetts	4,210,000	7,521,000
14	New Orleans	Orleans	4,180,000	6,743,000
15	Independence	Missouri	3,788,000	5,012,000
16	East St. Louis	Illinois	3,750,000	15,038,000^[5] Greater St. Louis
17	Memphis	Tennessee	3,719,000	6,948,000
18	Fairfax	Virginia	3,287,000	9,083,000^[6] part of the Washington metropolitan area
19	Vermillionville^[7] Lafayette	Orleans	3,191,000	3,421,000
20	Wilmington	North Carolina	2,983,000	3,161,000
21	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania	2,829,000	3,447,000
22	Concord^[8] Indianapolis - proposed name	Indiana	2,725,000	2,929,000
23	Greensboro	North Carolina	2,659,000	2,732,000
24	Sandusky	Ohio	2,648,000	2,727,000
25	Jersey City^[9] includes the whole of northwestern New Jersey, including Staten Island	New Jersey	2,581,000	22,785,000^[10] part of Greater New York
26	Raleigh	North Carolina	2,501,000	2,578,000
27	Mandeville	West Florida	2,442,000	6,743,000^[11] part of the New Orleans metro area
28	Louisville	Kentucky	2,422,000	3,991,000
29	Wichata	Kances	2,342,000	2,547,000
30	Fayetteville	North Carolina	2,307,000	2,434,000
31	Millewackie	Wisconsan	2,260,000	2,352,000
32	Lille^[12] Birmingham, Alabama - named after a different industrial center	Yazoo	2,201,000	2,329,000
33	Lynchburg	Virginia	1,929,000	2,321,000
34	Miami^[13] Toledo - named after river	Michigan	1,903,000	3,562,000
35	Bladensburg	Maryland	1,873,000	9,083,000^[6] part of the Washington metropolitan area
36	Columbus	Ohio	1,859,000	2,175,000
37	Washington^[14] Consists of OTL Washington east of Rock Creek, and not including the Anacostia coast	Anacostia	1,643,000	9,083,000
38	Coatesbourg^[15] Shreveport	Orleans	1,638,000	1,814,000
39	West Memphis	Tennessee	1,594,000	6,948,000^[16] part of the Memphis metropolitan area
40	Rochester	New York	1,586,000	1,638,000
41	Fernandina	East Florida	1,577,000	2,473,000
42	Jeffersonville	Indiana	1,512,000	3,991,000^[17] part of the Louisville metropolitan area
43	Clinton^[18] Michigan City - named by New Yorker settlers after DeWitt Clinton	Indiana	1,483,000	1,997,000
44	Monticello^[19] Oklahoma City	Cimarron	1,465,000	1,641,000
45	St. Anthony^[20] Minneapolis	Juniper	1,460,000	6,042,000^[21] part of Greater St. Paul
46	Chicago	Wisconsan	1,441,000	1,512,000
47	Portsmouth	New Hampshire	1,429,000	7,521,000^[22] part of the Boston metro area
48	Pensacola	West Florida	1,424,000	1,651,000
49	Covington	Kentucky	1,401,000	10,415,000^[23] part of Greater Cincinnati
50	Syracuse	New York	1,392,000	1,453,000
51	Perrysburg	Ohio	1,381,000	3,562,000^[24] part of the Greater Miami Area
52	Fort Wayne	Indiana	1,356,000	1,567,000
53	Knoxville	Franklin	1,341,000	1,418,000
54	Mobile	West Florida	1,344,000	1,836,000
55	Topequa	Kances	1,234,000	1,341,000
56	Albany	New York	1,212,000	1,349,000
57	Boston^[25] Kansas City, Kansas	Kances	1,189,000	5,012,000^[26] part of the Independence metro area
58	Baltimore	Maryland	1,165,000	1,252,000
59	Worcester	Massachusetts	1,103,000	7,521,000^[22] part of the Boston metro area
60	Allentown	Pennsylvania	1,074,000	1,162,000
61	Columbia	South Carolina	1,054,000	1,223,000
62	Twickenham^[27] Huntsville - former name, named after birthplace of Alexander Pope	Yazoo	1,017,000	1,231,000
63	Chattanooga	Franklin	982,000	1,321,000
64	Fondulac^[28] Duluth, Minnesota	Ontonagon	968,000	1,045,000
65	Harrisburg	Pennsylvania	947,000	1,032,000
66	Camden	New Jersey	911,000	7,278,000^[29] part of the Philadelphia metro area
67	Milan	Ohio	888,000	921,000
68	Lexington	Kentucky	879,000	993,000
69	St. Marys	Georgia	865,000	2,473,000^[30] part of the Fernandina metro area
70	Iron Gate	Virginia	848,000	893,000
71	New Haven	Connecticut	824,000	22,785,000^[10] part of Greater New York
72	Providence	Rhode Island	806,000	7,521,000^[22] part of the Boston metro area
73	Dorr^[31] Sioux City - named after Thomas Wilson Dorr	Nibrasca	793,000	848,000
74	Savannah	Georgia	764,000	1,241,000
75	Burlington	Vermont	748,000	781,000
76	Columbia	South Carolina	736,000	764,000
77	Appalachicola	West Florida	729,000	904,000
78	Sowashee^[32] Meridian, Mississippi	Mississippi	701,000	732,000
79	Cedar Rapids	Juniper	683,000	703,000
80	Augusta	Georgia	662,000	991,000
81	Tipton^[33] Southaven	Yazoo	645,000	6,948,000^[16] part of the Memphis metropolitan area
82	Green Bay	Wisconsan	622,000	653,000
83	Espirito Santo^[34] Tampa	West Florida	603,000	739,000
84	Ann Arbor	Michigan	598,000	621,000
85	Cleveland	Ohio	583,000	602,000
86	Steubenville	Ohio	571,000	3,447,000^[35] part of the Pittsburgh metro area
87	Trenton	New Jersey	564,000	581,000
88	Lowndes^[36] Jefferson, Missouri	Missouri	559,000	572,000
89	Harpers Ferry	Virginia	549,000	582,000
90	Peoria	Illinois	542,000	574,000
91	Wilmington	Delaware	533,000	7,278,000^[29] part of the Philadelphia metro area
92	Fredericksburg	Virgini	524,000	549,000
93	Charleston	Virginia	516,000	541,000
94	Lancaster	Pennsylvania	508,000	531,000
95	Portland	Maine	502,000	524,000
96	Galinee^[37] New Buffalo	Michigan	491,000	1,997,000^[38] part of the Clinton metro area
97	Wheeling	Alleghania	479,000	770,000
98	Geecheeville^[39] parts of Jasper & Beaufort County	South Carolina	462,000	1,241,000^[40] part of the Savannah metro area
99	Vogels Ferry^[41] Grand Forks	Pembina	451,000	473,000
100	Nashville	Tennessee	443,000	501,000
101	Cromwell^[42] Portage	Wisconsan	419,000	474,000
102	Brunswick	Georgia	414,000	458,000
103	Detroit	Michigan	406,000	445,000
104	Wetonqua^[43] Wetonka, South Dakota	Minasota	386,000	430,000

Largest cities in Commonwealth of Canada

Rank	City	County	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Toronto	Independent city	1,835,000	4,152,000
2	Kingston	Frontenac	953,000	2,031,000
3	London	Middlesex	707,000	1,544,000
4	Ancaster^[1] Hamilton	Wentworth	594,000	863,000
5	Windham^[2] Parts of North York, up to Richmond Hill	Mackenzie	561,000	4,152,000^[3] Part of the Greater Toronto Area
6	Sheridan^[4] Mississauga and parts of Etobicoke	Whitbread	438,000	4,152,000^[3] Part of the Greater Toronto Area
7	Ratisbon^[5] Waterloo	Ratisbon	398,000	772,000
8	Scarborough	Willcocks	378,000	4,152,000^[3] Part of the Greater Toronto Area
9	St. Catharines	Niagara	343,000	645,000

Largest cities in Laurentian Republic

Rank	City	Department	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Montreal	Montréal	4,213,000	7,031,000
2	Chomedey^[1] Laval	Montréal	819,000	7,031,000^[2] Part of Montreal Metro Area
3	Quebec	Saint-Charles	625,000	1,251,000
4	Longueuil	Montréal	432,000	7,031,000^[2] Part of Montreal Metro Area
5	Prevostville^[3] Sherbrooke	Saint-François et Magog	417,000	623,000
6	Repentigny	Montréal	318,000	7,031,000^[2] Part of Montreal Metro Area
7	Mercier^[4] Labrador City		211,000	323,000

Largest cities in United Provinces of China

Rank	City	Province	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Nanjing	Nanjing	34,203,000	36,910,000
2	Ningpo	Zhejiang	13,039,000	27,108,000
3	Chongqing		16,887,000	25,013,000
4	Guangzhou	Guangdong	14,527,000	20,372,000
5	Fuzhou		16,180,000	19,885,000
6	Hankou^[1] Wuhan		10,223,000	17,211,000
7	Shantou		7,398,000	16,453,000
8	Dali	Yunnan	9,113,000	15,832,000
9	Wenzhou	Zhejiang	10,032,000	15,137,000
10	Siming^[2] Xiamen		11,443,000	14,802,000
11	Hangzhou		8,329,000	14,391,000
12	Xi'an	Hubei	6,329,000	13,947,000
13	Jiangmen	Guangdong	10,318,000	13,445,000
14	Chengdu		10,439,000	12,932,000
15	Changsha		9,432,000	12,427,000
16	Taiyuan	Shanxi	7,735,000	11,913,000
17	Guiyang	Guizhou	7,361,000	11,491,000
18	Tieshan^[3] Near Beihai		6,527,000	10,793,000
19	Shenyang		8,312,000	10,423,000
20	Luzhou		4,247,000	10,281,000
21	Nanning	Sichuan	3,448,000	9,438,000
22	Kaifeng	Henan	3,983,000	9,201,000
23	Yichang		3,639,000	9,094,000
24	Tengyue	Yunnan	3,653,000	8,731,000
25	Beiping^[4] Beijing		5,248,000	8,462,000
26	Jiujiang		3,025,000	8,093,000
27	Chengzhang^[5] Daqing

Largest cities in Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic

Rank	City	Canton	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Moscow	Independent city	17,501,000	24,172,000
2	Petrograd	Independent city	12,538,000	17,314,000
3	Vartanyansk	Independent city	5,421,000	8,826,000
4	Odessa	Odessa	3,249,000	6,494,000
5	Kharkov	Kharkov	4,131,000	6,032,000

Largest cities in Punjabi Republic

Rank	City	Population	Metropolitan population
1	Lahore	32,700,000	38,408,000
2	Karachi	11,500,000	15,615,000
3	Rawalpindi	7,200,000	9,900,000
4	Sialkot	5,029,000	7,769,000
5	Peshawar	4,218,000	5,136,000
6	Patiala	3,709,000	5,014,000
7	Srinagar	3,591,000	4,157,000
8	Multan	3,220,000	3,910,000
9	Ludhiana	2,699,000	3,897,000
10	Dera Ismail Khan	2,119,000	2,610,000
11	Gujranwala	2,008,000	2,413,000
12	Kaulabad	1,808,000	2,476,000
13	Hyderabad	1,558,000	1,783,000
14	Quetta	1,301,000	1,392,000
15	Kangra	1,021,000	1,201,000

Largest cities in Empire of Maharashtra

Rank	City	State	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Mumbai	Mumbai	10,180,000	17,615,000
2	Pune	Pune	9,063,000	16,025,000
3	Nashik	Nashik	4,629,000	11,542,000
4	Shivajinagar^[1] Aurangabad	Shivajinagar	3,541,000	7,429,000
5	Ratnagiri	Pune	4,289,000	5,228,000
6	Nagpur	Nagpur	2,941,000	3,519,000

Largest cities in Empire of the German Nation

Rank	City	State	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Vienna	Archduchy of Austria	4,711,000	7,121,000
2	Hamburg	Free City of Hamburg	2,394,000	4,015,000
3	Dresden	Electorate of Saxony	1,109,000	3,206,000
4	Frankfurt	Free City of Frankfurt	803,000	2,384,000
5	Prague	Kingdom of Bohemia	831,000	2,120,000
6	Leipzig	Electorate of Saxony	749,000	1,994,000
7	Zurich	Electorate of Tellgau	801,000	1,781,000
8	Hanover	Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg	948,000	1,646,000

Largest cities in Republic of Australia

Cities

Rank	Name	Province	Population	Metropolitan population
1	Neramnew^[1] Melbourne	Foxland	2,431,000	4,709,000
2	Sydney	New Erin	1,569,000	2,932,000
3	Bentham^[2] Adelaide	Felicitania	1,093,000	1,239,000
4	New Cork^[3] Newcastle	New Erin	769,000	1,020,000
5	Inverness^[4] Brisbane	New Alba	713,000	936,000
6	Lexington^[5] Coffs Harbour	Avalon	534,000	741,000
7	Dundee^[6] Townsville	New Pictland	397,000	485,000
8	Ballarat	Foxland	361,000	447,000
9	Calcutta^[7] Dunedin	New Munster	344,000	401,000
10	Villiers^[8] Gladstone	New Selgovia	299,000	346,000

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Largest cities in Commonwealth of Assiniboia

Rank	City	Shire	City proper	Metropolitan population
1	Selkirk^[1] Winnipeg	Selkirk	1,153,000	2,148,000
2	Sumnerville^[2] Lethbridge	Sumnerville	401,000	623,000
3	Stroud^[3] Fort McMurray	Stroud	301,000	612,000
4	Fort Scott^[4] Qu'Appelle	D'Urban	211,000	232,000

Tallest freestanding buildings in the world

Name	Height	Held Record	City	Country
Monument to the Charter of Liberty and Security	152 m	1844-1863	Brompton (now in London)	British Isles
Grand Mausoleum of Aix-la-Chapelle	213 m	1863-1879	Aix-la-Chapelle	French Republic
Centennial Tower	305 m	1879-1903	Philadelphia	United States of America
Union Tower	343 m	1903-1928	St. Louis	United States of America
Tour Thyssen	450 m	1928-1971	Courbevoie (now in Paris)	French Republic
Dresdener Photoniksturm	501 m	1971-1973	Dresden	Empire of the German Nation
Wilno Spire	553 m	1973-1979	Vilna	Commonwealth of Lithuania
Resurgence Tower	581 m	1979-1994	Petrograd	Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic
Tremonia Tower	681 m	1994-2018	Zamboanga	Philippine Republic
Cochin Bank Tower	833 m	2018-present	Cochin	Republic of Malabar

Largest libraries in the world

Libraries

Rank	Name	Buildings	Location	Country	Year
^[1] Originates with the library of the King of France. Following the French Revolution, the library was nationalized and formally granted to the public. Renovated and expanded as part of Parisian redevelopment and French expansion, the threat of dirigible bombing runs during the German Unification and Hungarian Independence Wars in the late part of the 19th century led to duplication, microfilm storage, and storage bunkers. During the French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), the building was emptied prior to its flattening by German bombers, and the government opened modern buildings for the library on the same site, with vast room for growth.	Bibliothèque nationale de France	A complex of buildings, and entrance at 58 Rue de la Loi	Paris	French Republic	1793
^[2] Originates with the King's Library of George III; upon his death, its ownership was unclear. Following the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), Parliament nationalized it under the Frame of Government (1829), and following the Orange Riots of 1834, the new Senate House included a semi-separated Reading Room in the style of the Pantheon on the embankment front to store the King's Library and whatever other books Parliament might require, for the enjoyment of the public. Expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries forced it (despite an on-site expansion in 1881) to create an additional purpose-built building near Senate House in 1942.	Library of Parliament	2, namely the Parliamentary Reading Room & Henry Brougham House	London	British Isles	1841
^[3] During the rise of the Bai dynasty in China and the coronation of the Heads of China > 1858-1888 Mingzhi Emperor in 1858, the new state sought to modernize and adopt western norms, among which was the public library. With the confiscation of olden manuscripts from old institutions, most famously the Hanlin Academy, the Mingzhi Emperor opened the Imperial Library of China in a reserved building in the reconstructed Ming Palace to open this learning to the world. Over his thirty-year reign, the Emperor confiscated and bought a lot of books, including from the West, to make the library a truly national one in scope. With the Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) and the conquest of the Qing remnant in Mongolia and Manchuria, Lee Cheng-chang transported a lot of its manuscripts to Nanjing, where they were kept in the Imperial Library. When, in 1901, Marshal Lee overthrew the Bai dynasty and declared himself president of the new United Provinces of China (Heads of China > 1901-1926 Lee Cheng-chang (Tsuyu-Tungi-Tang) †), he renamed the Library to emphasize its republicanism, and he formally renovated it to make his mark over his twenty-five year long dictatorship, enshrining the Library in its state today.	Republican Library of China	1, namely the Kan Chamber	Nanjing	United Provinces of China	1863
^[4] During the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), New York City supported the Richmondite government while the rest of New York State supported the Constitutionalist cause. During the Battle of New York that ensued as a result, Richmondites torched gasworks and distilleries, causing massive destruction and a Great Fire despite their defeat. Postwar reconstruction included creating a library worthy of the city, and with endowments and donations it rapidly grew into the premier library of the Americas and, effectively, the national library of the United States of America.	Great Library of New York	177 branches, centered around the Great Athenaeum at 4 Irving Place	New York City	United States of America	1879
^[5] In the wake of the Punjabi Revolution, the new republic believed the creation of a national library to be a necessary aspect of republican ideology, and thus created one in Lahore on the model of the Bibliothèque Nationale, to the extent of naming it a Punjabization of the word. Its endowment and size expanded rapidly following Prem Nath Kaul's military coup in 1890, as he deposited manuscripts seized from his conquests of the hill kingdoms into it and made it the lynchpin of a national library network as a symbol of the active state. Every regime and administration since has attempted to make their own mark on the system and its central building, if nothing else to plaster their name on it.	National Library of Punjab	1097 branches, centered around the Bibalithaink	Lahore (head)	Punjabi Republic	1884
^[6] The International Library was a product of the French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5). The war, and the rise of bombing runs in this era, came with it a peace movement, and within this movement was a French author, Paul Otlet. To democratize knowledge and spread it across borders, he wanted to establish an institution he called the "Mundaneum", that would consolidate the knowledge of humanity and allow it to be transmitted across the world. Successfully campaigning for its inclusion under the Charter for an International Forum, this new institution gathered knowledge of all types - not just books, but also newspapers, magazines, and tabledisks - and sought to link them together. Despite success with using the index card to this end, with the rising Analyzers technology, he sought to use one - the Grand Analyzer of Aix-la-Chappelle - to organize and index this new data, copied in the form of microfilm. Additionally, the International Forum established several branches of the library around the world, with exact replication of its data across them. Most famously, it distilled this data into several encyclopedias, which it transmitted to universities and libraries all across the world for the diffusion of language. With the French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), the Aix-la-Chapelle branch was entirely destroyed - however, its microfilm collection, transported to the countryside with the dawn of the war, survived intact, as did replicas of its records in its other branches. With that, the mother branch of the International Library got reconstructed and expanded, and postwar it continued its existing task of consolidating and archiving the information of humanity.	International Library	10, centered around the Palais Mondiale	Aix-la-Chapelle (head)	French Republic (head)	1905
^[7] The Library of Alexandria had, before its fall, contained six microfilm duplicate copies of all its documents. Prior to its fall, these duplicates were all taken to France. While one of them was incorporated into the Bibliothèque Nationale, the other five were instead gifted to various republics as symbols of revolutionary values. Among them was the United States. Despite talk of incorporating them into the Smithsonian collection, they were instead shifted into their own institution in Alexandria, Anacostia state. Since then, this New Library of Alexandria has bloomed into a colossal institution with a special focus on numerized data and an early adopter of analyzer technology.	Library of Alexandria (United States)	1, namely the Alexandria Library Building	Alexandria	United States of America	1954
^[8] This library has its origins among the Habsburg emperors' collection from medieval times. It gradually expanded over time and incorporated a great number of books from across the Habsburg lands and Germany itself. With the unification of Germany under Habsburg leadership in 1884, it expanded even further as it served as a library of deposit, and despite the Hungarian War of Independence it retained its Hungarian collection. During the French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), the Hofburg faced attack from long-range Véronique missiles, destroying part of the library. Postwar, with the Heads of Germany > 1943-1949 Interregnum, the library was separated from national authority, and with the Perpetual Capitulation of 1949 and election of a Wettin to the throne, this was made permanent. In an act of magnanimity, the Head of the House of Habsburg - reduced to Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia - opened the library to the whole nation and moved out of the Hofburg to make room for more books. It has maintained being Germany's premiere collection as a result.	Imperial Court Library	1, namely the Hofburg Palace	Vienna	Empire of the German Nation	1368
^[9] In the nineteenth century, Egypt fell under French influence, although formally it continued to be ruled by its weak sultan. In this environment, a number of French businessmen seeking to "revive" the days of old founded what they intended to be a distant successor to the Library of Alexandria. As a repository of important documents to the French colonial empire, it grew rapidly. However, then came the Egyptian Revolution (1948-52), and France was too busy rebuilding after French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) to secure its colonial interests. The Library became important to the Egyptian war effort as a symbol of French influence, and its administrators wanting to preserve it surrendered it without a shot. It was thence re-founded as a national library and object of much pride.	Library of Alexandria (Egypt)	1, namely the Hurriyat Palace	Alexandria	Egyptian Republic	1874
^[10] With the restoration of Chhatrapati Shahu III to real power over his hereditary prime minister in 1891, he committed himself to reform to secure his power. With the assistance of a consultative assembly, he moved against Brahmins by making reservations in administration and universities for non-Brahmins, and he formally nationalized all Hindu temples in Maharashtra, to be run from the hands of his appointees. As part of this grand takeover, he gathered a great many manuscripts, a personal collection for him and his favorites. This status quo continued for most of his reign, until British Wars > Hindustani War of Independence (1936-9) saw Maharashtra end its alliance with the British and the rise of a pro-democracy movement, and the grisly fate of many Hindustani aristocrats showed Shahu what would happen if he did nothing. When he finally accepted ministerial responsibility in 1945, his new diwan sought to make this great library available for the people. Eventually, after much negotiation, it was made a public library, but with the Hindu character of most manuscripts, it was a temple library and formally endowed under the goddess of knowledge. Despite talk of secularizing this collection as part of some mooted separation of religion and state, there is little chance of this, and the Mahapustakalaya has since become a site of some pilgrimage.	Shree Saraswati Mahapustakalaya	A complex of buildings, centered around the Great Saraswati Temple of Pune	Pune	Empire of Maharashtra	1947
^[11]	Biblioteca Nacional de Las Antillas		Havana	Antillean Confederation
^[12] Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the city had a chance to be rebuilt almost from scratch - and with it being the economic and cultural center of Buenaventura, it had the resources too. Taking cues from New York, it was now to have a vast library at its very core, and it opened to much fanfare early in reconstruction, and it was swiftly endowed with nationalism by being named after the first General Director of Buenaventura. Its empty grandeur was gradually filled as its librarians acquired vast collections, many of them from across the Pacific, becoming the greatest library of the West Coast.	Daniel C. Broderick Athenaeum		San Francisco	United Provinces of Buenaventura	1910
^[13] Endowed under the fortune of James Smithson, further enhanced by a number of effective stock market bets, the Smithsonian in short succession became one of the United States' greatest institution. For much of this, it only had a working library, but this changed following the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), as the Smithsonian became the center of the National University of the United States of America. Its library grew with it as a result.	Library of the Smithsonian Institution		Washington	United States of America	1845
^[14]	Advocates Library	1, namely Parliament House	Edinburgh	British Isles	1682
^[15] The Lunar Society was a historic eighteenth century scientific society in Birmingham, which mostly collapsed in the wake of the royalist Priestley Riots of 1791. After the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) in 1827 and Dissenter emancipation, it saw a revival, and in 1849 it became the core of the University of Birmingham, one of many land-grant universities endowed with former Crown land. Its library later became the seed of the new university's own library.	Lunar Library of the University of Birmingham		Birmingham	British Isles	1849
^[16]	O'Connell University Library		Dublin	British Isles
^[17]	Library of the American Philosophical Society		Philadelphia	United States of America	1828
^[18]			Petrograd	Russian Sociocratic Cantonal Republic
^[19]	Bibliothèque nationale de Laurentie		Montreal	Laurentian Republic
^[20]	National Library of Canada	1, namely 30 Whitbread Street East	Toronto	Commonwealth of Canada
^[21]	Library of the University of St. Louis		St. Louis	United States of America
^[22]	Library of the Manchester Lyceum	1, namely Free Trade In Land Hall	Manchester	British Isles
^[23]	National Library of Zanzibar		Dar es-Salaam	Republic of Zanzibar
^[24]	Library of the University of Black Rock		Black Rock	United States of America
^[25]	National Library of Sokoto		Sokoto	Republic of Sokoto

Originates with the library of the King of France. Following the French Revolution, the library was nationalized and formally granted to the public. Renovated and expanded as part of Parisian redevelopment and French expansion, the threat of dirigible bombing runs during the German Unification and Hungarian Independence Wars in the late part of the 19th century led to duplication, microfilm storage, and storage bunkers. During the French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), the building was emptied prior to its flattening by German bombers, and the government opened modern buildings for the library on the same site, with vast room for growth. ⮐
Originates with the King's Library of George III; upon his death, its ownership was unclear. Following the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9), Parliament nationalized it under the Frame of Government (1829), and following the Orange Riots of 1834, the new Senate House included a semi-separated Reading Room in the style of the Pantheon on the embankment front to store the King's Library and whatever other books Parliament might require, for the enjoyment of the public. Expansion in the 19th and 20th centuries forced it (despite an on-site expansion in 1881) to create an additional purpose-built building near Senate House in 1942. ⮐
During the rise of the Bai dynasty in China and the coronation of the Heads of China > 1858-1888 Mingzhi Emperor in 1858, the new state sought to modernize and adopt western norms, among which was the public library. With the confiscation of olden manuscripts from old institutions, most famously the Hanlin Academy, the Mingzhi Emperor opened the Imperial Library of China in a reserved building in the reconstructed Ming Palace to open this learning to the world. Over his thirty-year reign, the Emperor confiscated and bought a lot of books, including from the West, to make the library a truly national one in scope. With the Russo-Chinese War (1893-9) and the conquest of the Qing remnant in Mongolia and Manchuria, Lee Cheng-chang transported a lot of its manuscripts to Nanjing, where they were kept in the Imperial Library. When, in 1901, Marshal Lee overthrew the Bai dynasty and declared himself president of the new United Provinces of China (Heads of China > 1901-1926 Lee Cheng-chang (Tsuyu-Tungi-Tang) †), he renamed the Library to emphasize its republicanism, and he formally renovated it to make his mark over his twenty-five year long dictatorship, enshrining the Library in its state today. ⮐
During the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), New York City supported the Richmondite government while the rest of New York State supported the Constitutionalist cause. During the Battle of New York that ensued as a result, Richmondites torched gasworks and distilleries, causing massive destruction and a Great Fire despite their defeat. Postwar reconstruction included creating a library worthy of the city, and with endowments and donations it rapidly grew into the premier library of the Americas and, effectively, the national library of the United States of America. ⮐
In the wake of the Punjabi Revolution, the new republic believed the creation of a national library to be a necessary aspect of republican ideology, and thus created one in Lahore on the model of the Bibliothèque Nationale, to the extent of naming it a Punjabization of the word. Its endowment and size expanded rapidly following Prem Nath Kaul's military coup in 1890, as he deposited manuscripts seized from his conquests of the hill kingdoms into it and made it the lynchpin of a national library network as a symbol of the active state. Every regime and administration since has attempted to make their own mark on the system and its central building, if nothing else to plaster their name on it. ⮐
The International Library was a product of the French Wars > Fifth French War (1892-5). The war, and the rise of bombing runs in this era, came with it a peace movement, and within this movement was a French author, Paul Otlet. To democratize knowledge and spread it across borders, he wanted to establish an institution he called the "Mundaneum", that would consolidate the knowledge of humanity and allow it to be transmitted across the world. Successfully campaigning for its inclusion under the Charter for an International Forum, this new institution gathered knowledge of all types - not just books, but also newspapers, magazines, and tabledisks - and sought to link them together. Despite success with using the index card to this end, with the rising Analyzers technology, he sought to use one - the Grand Analyzer of Aix-la-Chappelle - to organize and index this new data, copied in the form of microfilm. Additionally, the International Forum established several branches of the library around the world, with exact replication of its data across them. Most famously, it distilled this data into several encyclopedias, which it transmitted to universities and libraries all across the world for the diffusion of language. With the French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), the Aix-la-Chapelle branch was entirely destroyed - however, its microfilm collection, transported to the countryside with the dawn of the war, survived intact, as did replicas of its records in its other branches. With that, the mother branch of the International Library got reconstructed and expanded, and postwar it continued its existing task of consolidating and archiving the information of humanity. ⮐
The Library of Alexandria had, before its fall, contained six microfilm duplicate copies of all its documents. Prior to its fall, these duplicates were all taken to France. While one of them was incorporated into the Bibliothèque Nationale, the other five were instead gifted to various republics as symbols of revolutionary values. Among them was the United States. Despite talk of incorporating them into the Smithsonian collection, they were instead shifted into their own institution in Alexandria, Anacostia state. Since then, this New Library of Alexandria has bloomed into a colossal institution with a special focus on numerized data and an early adopter of analyzer technology. ⮐
This library has its origins among the Habsburg emperors' collection from medieval times. It gradually expanded over time and incorporated a great number of books from across the Habsburg lands and Germany itself. With the unification of Germany under Habsburg leadership in 1884, it expanded even further as it served as a library of deposit, and despite the Hungarian War of Independence it retained its Hungarian collection. During the French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41), the Hofburg faced attack from long-range Véronique missiles, destroying part of the library. Postwar, with the Heads of Germany > *1943-1949 Interregnum*, the library was separated from national authority, and with the Perpetual Capitulation of 1949 and election of a Wettin to the throne, this was made permanent. In an act of magnanimity, the Head of the House of Habsburg - reduced to Archduke of Austria and King of Bohemia - opened the library to the whole nation and moved out of the Hofburg to make room for more books. It has maintained being Germany's premiere collection as a result. ⮐
In the nineteenth century, Egypt fell under French influence, although formally it continued to be ruled by its weak sultan. In this environment, a number of French businessmen seeking to "revive" the days of old founded what they intended to be a distant successor to the Library of Alexandria. As a repository of important documents to the French colonial empire, it grew rapidly. However, then came the Egyptian Revolution (1948-52), and France was too busy rebuilding after French Wars > Sixth French War (1937-41) to secure its colonial interests. The Library became important to the Egyptian war effort as a symbol of French influence, and its administrators wanting to preserve it surrendered it without a shot. It was thence re-founded as a national library and object of much pride. ⮐
With the restoration of Chhatrapati Shahu III to real power over his hereditary prime minister in 1891, he committed himself to reform to secure his power. With the assistance of a consultative assembly, he moved against Brahmins by making reservations in administration and universities for non-Brahmins, and he formally nationalized all Hindu temples in Maharashtra, to be run from the hands of his appointees. As part of this grand takeover, he gathered a great many manuscripts, a personal collection for him and his favorites. This status quo continued for most of his reign, until British Wars > Hindustani War of Independence (1936-9) saw Maharashtra end its alliance with the British and the rise of a pro-democracy movement, and the grisly fate of many Hindustani aristocrats showed Shahu what would happen if he did nothing. When he finally accepted ministerial responsibility in 1945, his new diwan sought to make this great library available for the people. Eventually, after much negotiation, it was made a public library, but with the Hindu character of most manuscripts, it was a temple library and formally endowed under the goddess of knowledge. Despite talk of secularizing this collection as part of some mooted separation of religion and state, there is little chance of this, and the Mahapustakalaya has since become a site of some pilgrimage. ⮐
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Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the city had a chance to be rebuilt almost from scratch - and with it being the economic and cultural center of Buenaventura, it had the resources too. Taking cues from New York, it was now to have a vast library at its very core, and it opened to much fanfare early in reconstruction, and it was swiftly endowed with nationalism by being named after the first General Director of Buenaventura. Its empty grandeur was gradually filled as its librarians acquired vast collections, many of them from across the Pacific, becoming the greatest library of the West Coast. ⮐
Endowed under the fortune of James Smithson, further enhanced by a number of effective stock market bets, the Smithsonian in short succession became one of the United States' greatest institution. For much of this, it only had a working library, but this changed following the Liberty and Union War (1868-76), as the Smithsonian became the center of the National University of the United States of America. Its library grew with it as a result. ⮐
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The Lunar Society was a historic eighteenth century scientific society in Birmingham, which mostly collapsed in the wake of the royalist Priestley Riots of 1791. After the British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) in 1827 and Dissenter emancipation, it saw a revival, and in 1849 it became the core of the University of Birmingham, one of many land-grant universities endowed with former Crown land. Its library later became the seed of the new university's own library. ⮐
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1	Russian Empire	1890	25.7
2	Mongol Empire	1270	24.0
3	British Empire	1935	20.4
4	Qing dynasty	1790	14.7
5	Spanish Empire	1800	13.7

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