Local officials were heavily involved in bringing Monopoly to the sprawling metropolis of some 15 million people.

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That said, most of Cairo and its sprawling metropolis, its millions of inhabitants, its pollution and epic traffic chaos neither looks nor feels anything like Paris or London.

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It will propel you up to a peak in Namsan park -- central Seoul's biggest -- next to the Seoul Tower , from where you can survey the sprawling metropolis.

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Houston is a big sprawling ugly metropolis.

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Then there is its own geography: it is easier for diverse lifestyles to co-exist in a sprawling city of distinct villages than in a relatively concentrated metropolis such as either New York or Paris.

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