Isana
Isana is the capital and largest city of Risevne, and one of its three Designated Cities - cities which are treated as equivalent to Provinces. The total urban population, living within the city limits, is 14,286,740.
Isana forms the centre of the huge conurbation in the south of Risevne, known as Ibretal after the three main cities of Isana, Bresnga and Taluste, which stretches across the Feladmena Plain; together the conurbation contains around 32 million people. Accounting for around 1/5 of the Risevani population by itself, the city is both a major global city and the undisputed economic, political and social centre of Risevne.
Geography and Climate
The city of Isana occupies a total area of 1678 square kilometres, in a rough rectangle that occupies most of the Gardaus Peninsula and surrounding areas. To its north is the municipality of Bresnga, while to its east is Feladmena Province.
Geographically the city is clearly divided into two, by the Rushalya river and Gardaus Bay; the east was, and remains, by far the older city, while the west was only made part of the city around the 1830s, just before the beginning of the period known as the Ibakizaro, and has undergone many great changes and upheavals. The only significant elevations are the hills south of the Waranye, including Nortekone or the Swallows' Hill on which the famed Garnoye stands.
Definition of Isana
Modern day Isana, administratively known as Isana City, is one of the first-level subdivisions of Risevne. Within this large area of the Gardaus Peninsula the original city, now known as the Old Capital {Kode Sanasir}, occupies the area between the Waranye river and the Rushalya, southwards to the Bay. The present municipality took its shape following redefinitions of borders in 2033, when two new districts in the northeast were carved out from Feladmena Province.
Unlike many other large cities in the world Isana is rarely defined in terms of a "Greater Isana"; in Risevan parlance the more often used term is Ibretal, though it includes a far larger area that stretches all the way to the other side of the Feladmena Plain in Taluste. A substitute term is "Southern Ibretal", as opposed to Western Ibretal for the area around Bresnga and Eastern Ibretal for Taluste. Feladmena Province has many towns and urban areas which are often called "Hotel Towns", a reference to the extensive numbers of people commuting to work in the city.
Subdivisions
- Main article: Areas and Districts of Isana
While Isana is considered as a single division under the City Government, it is in fact divided into nine Areas, or Remis; each one is then farther subdivided into Districts, or Dego. The areas each possess their own municipal agencies, and most affairs belonging exclusively within their districts are delegated to them, including local infrastructure.
City Planning
See Izanosan Plans
History
Template:Main:History of Isana
The lower valley of the Rushalya river, and the surrounding plains, have been sites of human inhabitation since time immemorial; in the neighbourhood of Narusgerya is the type site of a neolithic civilisation known as the Narusgerya culture, but this is just one of several discoveries of ancient cultures within the city; the most recent find was in 2007 in the east of the city.
Economy
Isana is one of the major financial centres of the world, as well as a centre of commerce and commodity trading.
Government
Transport
Education
Culture and Society
Famous Areas and Buildings
- West Bay City - a huge shopping district formed by the amalgamation of many districts over time, including:
- Victory Road, a world-famous road in the north of West Bay City.
- Taiberseimi, literally "Above the Bridge", the generic term for the area north of the Soruta Bridge
- Taibergute, literally "Below the Bridge", the term for the area south of the bridge.
