Cities of the World Educational Posters & Prints “O...-”
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Oaxaca, located in southern Mexico, is a cultural and tourist attaction because of the native Zapotec and Mixtec archeological sites, and colonial era structures.

Notable people associated with Oaxaca include Benito Juarez and Porfirio Díaz.

Odessa is a major seaport located on the northwest shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine.

The steps leading to the shore of the Black Sea was the site of a workers' uprising supported by the crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin in 1905. The movie director Sergei Eisenstein's motion picture The Battleship Potemkin commemorated the uprising and includes a scene where hundreds are murdered on the great stone staircase, now popularly known as the “Potemkin Steps”, in one of the most famous scenes in motion picture history.

Notable people associated with Odessa include David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein.

Osaka is the third largest city in Japan, after Tokyo and Yokohama.

Osaka is historically the commercial capital of Japan: beginning in the feudal Edo period it was the centre of trading for rice, creating the first modern future exchange market in the world.

Notable people associated with Osaka include Yasunari Kawabata.

Oslo, known as Christiana in the late 1800s, is the capital and city with the largest population in Norway. It is considered the fastest growing city in Europe as well as being second only to Tokyo as expensive to live in.

Oslo celebrated its millennium in 2000.

Notable people associated with Oslo include Kirsten Flagstad, Sonja Henie, Henrik Ibsen, Edvard Munch, Arne Næss, Eva Sars Nansen.

Ottawa, the capital of Canada and the fourth largest city in the country (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver), was founded in 1826.

The Algonquin word ‘adawe’, meaning “to trade”, is the basis of the name Ottawa.

Notable people associated with Ottawa include Paul Anka, Margaret Atwood, Dan Aykroyd, Loren Green, Alanis Morissette, Matthew Perry.

Ouagadougou, the capital and largest city of Burkina Faso, was the site of one of the largest markets in West Africa. The market was burned in 2003, and remains closed.