are you even fucking trying right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
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Damascus and Aleppo, two of the oldest on the planet, have no navigable rivers or seaports. Also lol @ LA, since they didn't have one either until massive civil engineering works made them one (well away from downtown)
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I forgot who said it--something about "you should've built a city where God put a harbor instead of having the government make one for you"
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Milan, older than Rome, is a full day's walk away from any major rivers (the Po). Persepolis and Jerusalem had no ports or navigable rivers.
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Baltimore is another fun inclusion: why did they put it on a dead-end harbor instead of at the mouth of the Susquehanna? This created a lot of interior access problems until railways were invented--ditto for Boston and the Merrimack
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On that note--isn't it weird that New Haven is nowhere near the mouth of the Connecticut? Even tho Hartford is on the river...people had to go overland between them, eventually building canals, but no better location rose to prominence over NH
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