The route to Vanimo, a coastal city in northwestern Papua New Guinea, is not as direct.
"We're a coastal city, so we cannot and will not abandon the waterfront, " he said.
It is a 12-hour boat ride from Buenaventura, a coastal city of more than 300, 000 people about 10 hours from Bogota or four hours from Cali, or an hour-and-40-minute boat ride from Guapi, an Afro-pacific town near the border of Ecuador.
Wenzhou, a coastal city known for wealthy entrepreneurs and property speculation that was hit by a credit crunch last year, posted the largest sequential and annual slide in December, with prices falling 1.9% from a month earlier and 6.9% from a year earlier.
Just 45 minutes from Beirut is Byblos, a historic coastal city with stunning ancient Roman ruins and a well-preserved Crusader-era castle.
Mr Paul represents Lake Jackson, a pretty coastal city that looks like an advertisement for planned community life.
In Rizhao, a coastal Chinese city of 3 million people, more than 90% of households use solar power to heat their water, Lovins said.
He was placed in an enclosure at a wildlife sanctuary in the coastal city of Mombasa and befriended a male tortoise of a similar colour.
Founded in a suburban house in the coastal city of Durban in 1997, Aspen has grown at an average of over 40% a year and is now South Africa's leading drugmaker.
Built on a coastal resort outside the city, the campus has over 300 rooms where engineers stay while they train on ZTE systems.
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She arrived in Cyprus from Moscow 12 years ago and now runs a small business in the coastal city of Limassol - home to an estimated 40, 000 Russians.
He was caught in a taxi near the Chilean central coastal city of Vina del Mar.
One of Syria's latest flash points is Haffa, a mountaintop village overlooking the coastal western city of Latakia.
Diane Lopes was among the shoppers who packed a supermarket Thursday in the coastal fishing city of Gloucester, Mass.
But some have gone further west to the coastal city of Izmir - a place itself scarred by wanton killing and destruction in World War I.
Some radio stations have even been organising peace road shows, such as a rally on 15 February in the coastal city of Mombasa by Luo-language Ramogi FM.
Salim Abdool Karim, one of the two leading co-researchers, told reporters in Vienna that the 889 women involved in the trial, conducted in the coastal city of Durban and a remote rural village, had largely used the gel as directed.
The Body Shop chain got its start with a small cosmetics boutique in the English coastal city of Brighton that Roddick opened in 1976, seeking to support herself and her two daughters while her husband was trekking across the United States.
The violence could also derail efforts to rebuild the region's international reputation, after the coastal area outside the city saw a string of kidnappings of western foreigners last year.
And the coastal city of Gangneung helped pay for a phonograph-shaped building to hold a local businessman's collection of Thomas Edison memorabilia, including hundreds of gramophones and light bulbs.
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But Hart, a Scottish expat who has lived in the southwest coastal city of Paphos for 13 years with his wife, says the "overnight robbery" by the recently-installed government is devastating people in his community.
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U.S. officials expect Bulgarian investigators to link the militant group Hezbollah to the July 18 attack in the coastal city of Burgas, in which a bomb ripped through a bus that was carrying the tourists to their hotel.
Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt deployed troops to the coastal city of Suez on Saturday after a security chief declared the area "out of control" following deadly clashes on the second anniversary of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak.
I'll be blogging about what I find in the coming days, but wanted to give you an initial flavour of life in this famous city, which sits on a dusty coastal plain just below a green, almost Tuscan, range of low hills.
According to Nicholas K. Coch, a professor of coastal geology at Queens College in New York City, significant hurricanes have slammed into the region before.
"I am so desperate to know how it feels to read the most complicated book in the world, " said He Kuang, a 50-year-old civil servant in the coastal city Xiamen, who bought the translation.
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"It's going to give hope to so many young women, " said Alaa al Mizyen, a 22-year-old consultant in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah, who played basketball at an international school and watched Friday's judo match on television.
The court said Mohammed and Mousavi were suspected to have links with a network planning bombings in the capital, Nairobi and the coastal city of Mombasa.
For a second week, clashes broke out Friday in the coastal Mediterranean city of Alexandria between Muslim Brotherhood protesters, who were supporting Morsy, and opposition demonstrators.
"Hurricane Sandy tested the city's ability to respond to a large coastal storm from providing shelter to residents of coastal areas to removing thousands of tons of damaged trees to providing food and supplies to affected residents, " Deputy Mayors Linda Gibbs and Caswell Holloway wrote in the post-Sandy self-analysis issued Friday.
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