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Global city, a Rare card
A global city is a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Society
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 55
- Power
- 119
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 490,000
Power 119 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The concept originates from geography and urban studies, based on the thesis that globalization has created a hierarchy of strategic geographic locations with varying degrees of influence over finance, trade, and culture worldwide.
- The global city represents the most complex and significant hub within the international system, characterized by links binding it to other cities that have direct, tangible effects on global socioeconomic affairs.
- The criteria of a global city vary depending on the source.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Global city article was read about 490,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 55: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
How to get Global city
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Global city (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.