Phorktown
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Phorktown | |
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City | |
 The Central Square in Flinthead District | |
 Flag | |
| Nickname: PT | |
| Motto(s): Born in freedom, live in freedom, die in freedom | |
| Country | Philimania |
| Province | New Cardiff |
| Districts | List |
| Establishment | 23 May 1632 |
| City status | 5 March 1680 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor–Council |
| • Body | Phorktown City Council |
| • Mayor | William Grey |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2,220 km2 (860 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 653 km2 (252 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 150 m (490 ft) |
| Population (2020) | |
| • Total | 2,103,200 |
| • Density | 947.4/km2 (2,454/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 785,324 |
| • Metro | 1,317,876 |
| • Metro density | 2,772/km2 (7,180/sq mi) |
| • Demonym | Phorker |
| City Index | |
| • HDI (2019) |  0.927 (very high) |
| • GDP (2020) | β 342,635 billion |
| • Per capita (2020) | β 14,379 |
| Time zone | MTS+1 |
| Postal code | 800 to 40000 |
| Area code(s) | 45, 46 |
| Vehicle registration | T (except taxis) NC (for taxis only) |
| Rapid Transit |  |
| Official language(s) | Neragese Paqueon (de facto) |
| Website | www.pt.gov |
Phorktown City (/fɔːk'taʊn/ (
listen)), often called simply Phorktown, is the second populous city in Philimania. With an estimated 2020 population of 2,103,200 distributed over about 947.4 km2. The city is located at the Northeastern tip of the province of New Cardiff in the county of Chamacho.
Phorktown is composed of six districts. The six districts—Wellam, Brake, East Phorktown, Admira, Flinthead, and Beadrun—were created in 1680, after city status was granted to the city. As many as 600 languages are spoken in Phorktown, making it one of the most linguistically diverse city in the world. Phorktown is home to roughly 1 million residents born outside Philimania. As of 2019, Phorktown is estimated to produce a GDP of β342,635 billion.
Etymology
THe city was named after the founder of the city—Jacob Phork.
History
Geography
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Climate and weather
Phorktown experiences a humid tropical climate with generally cool temperatures and plentiful rainfall all year round. Temperatures tend to remain constant. Maximums hover between 24 and 31 °C (75.2 and 87.8 °F) and sometimes hit 38 °C (100.4 °F), while minimums hover between 18.4 °C (65.12 °F) and have never fallen below 17.8 °C (64.0 °F).
| Climate data for Phorktown | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 23.0 (73.4) |
22.8 (73.0) |
22.0 (71.6) |
23.8 (74.8) |
22.2 (72.0) |
21.9 (71.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
23.2 (73.8) |
23.4 (74.1) |
22.0 (71.6) |
22.7 (72.9) |
23.0 (73.4) |
25.0 (77.0) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 21.0 (69.8) |
23.8 (74.8) |
25.1 (77.2) |
24.1 (75.4) |
23.0 (73.4) |
22.8 (73.0) |
24.8 (76.6) |
22.3 (72.1) |
22.1 (71.8) |
25.0 (77.0) |
24.7 (76.5) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.5 (74.3) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 23.7 (74.7) |
22.2 (72.0) |
24.6 (76.3) |
21.7 (71.1) |
22.8 (73.0) |
26.6 (79.9) |
24.1 (75.4) |
22.1 (71.8) |
23.0 (73.4) |
24.0 (75.2) |
22.8 (73.0) |
21.6 (70.9) |
23.3 (73.9) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 19.4 (66.9) |
20.6 (69.1) |
19.0 (66.2) |
21.3 (70.3) |
19.6 (67.3) |
21.3 (70.3) |
20.8 (69.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
20.8 (69.4) |
21.0 (69.8) |
20.8 (69.4) |
19.6 (67.3) |
20.3 (68.4) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 17.8 (64.0) |
18.0 (64.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
20.6 (69.1) |
20.5 (68.9) |
19.1 (66.4) |
20.1 (68.2) |
20.0 (68.0) |
21.0 (69.8) |
20.0 (68.0) |
20.7 (69.3) |
19.0 (66.2) |
17.8 (64.0) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 193 (7.6) |
198 (7.8) |
257 (10.1) |
230 (9.1) |
197 (7.8) |
131 (5.2) |
148 (5.8) |
162 (6.4) |
214 (8.4) |
265 (10.4) |
321 (12.6) |
252 (9.9) |
2,568 (101.1) |
| Average rainy days | 15 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 20 | 24 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 230 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 80 | 80 | 80 | 82 | 81 | 80 | 79 | 79 | 81 | 82 | 84 | 83 | 81 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 185.0 | 192.4 | 207.9 | 198.8 | 206.8 | 194.4 | 200.2 | 189.0 | 163.8 | 169.1 | 152.3 | 162.6 | 2,222.3 |
| Climate data for Phorktown | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Mean daily daylight hours | 12.0 | 12.0 | 12.1 | 12.2 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 12.3 | 12.2 | 12.1 | 12.0 | 12.0 | 11.9 | 12.1 |
| Average Ultraviolet index | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 |
Governance
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Districts
Phorktown's six districts, with estimated population and percentage of the total, are congruent with administrative subdivisions under the authority of the Phorktown City Council.
Demographics
Population density
Phorktown is the second most populous city in Philimania, with a population of 1.7652 million in the city proper as of 2019. It has a population density of 1,444 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,740/sq mi), and is the most densely populated administrative district in Philimania.
Race and ethnicity
Phorktown's populace includes many ethnic groups such as Philimanian, Hestandan, X, Veragese, Qiuese, Naphtoran, Cavalan, Palon people, and other indigenous races from around Flonesia.
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Economy
Phorktown City is a Flonesian hub of business and commerce, as a center for retailing, world trade, transportation, tourism, advertising, legal services, accountancy, theater, and fashion, in Philimania.
Many corporations are headquartered in Phorktown City, as are a large number of multinational corporations. Three out of ten private sector jobs in the city is with a foreign company. The city's fashion industry provides approximately 180,000 employees with $10 billion in annual wages.
Other important sectors include medical research and technology, non-profit institutions, and universities. Manufacturing accounts for a significant but declining share of employment. The city's apparel and garment industry, historically centered on the Beadrun District, peaked in 1970, when more than 400,000 workers were employed in the industry in Phorktown. In 2000, fewer than 23,000 Phorktown City residents were employed in the manufacture of garments, accessories, and finished textiles, although efforts to revive the industry were underway. Food processing is a $3 billion industry that employs more than 16,000 residents.
Timber is Phorktown City's leading specialty export, with up to $334 million worth of exports each year.
Tourism
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Retail
Phorktown has totally 39 shopping malls and has the second largest retail and fashion industry in Philimania as well as Flonesia.
Murial Mall is one of Philimania's premier upscale shopping destination. Apart from Murial Mall, Admira District has the highest concentration of shopping malls in Phorktown including Admira Centre.
Apart from shopping complexes, Phorktown has designated numerous zones in the city to market locally manufactured products such as textiles, fabrics and handicrafts.
Since 1980, the Philimanian Ministry of Tourism introduced the mega sale event for shopping in Phorktown. The mega sale event at the time is held two times a year – in Memesa, and Pulungana – during which all shopping malls are encouraged to participate to boost Phorktown to surpass New Phork as the leading shopping destination in Flonesia.
Media and entertainment
Phorktown daily, business, and digital papers include The Phorktown Mail, and The Beadrun Times. Qiuese and Paqueon newspapers are also published daily.
Phorktown is also a major center for non-commercial educational media. The oldest public-access television channel in Philimania is the Phorktown Network, founded in 1973. The PTVN is the city's major public television station and a primary source of national Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television programming.
Education
The Phorktown Public Schools system, managed by the Phorktown City Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the Philimania, serving about 400 thousand students in 748 separate primary and secondary schools.
The Phorktown City Charter School Center assists the setup of new charter schools. There are approximately 70 additional privately run secular and religious schools in the city.
More than 600,000 students are enrolled in Phorktown City's 34 higher education institutions. According to X, Phorktown City has, on average, the best higher education institutions of Flonesia. Phorktown City is home to such notable private universities as Clinton College, Oton University, Cooper Academy of Science, Wellam University, and Phorktown University, several of these universities are ranked among the top universities in the world.
Cityscape
Architecture
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Parks
The city of Phorktown has a complex park system, with various lands operated by the New Cardiff Office of Parks, and the Phorktown City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Phorktown City has over 10,000 km2 (3861.022 mile2) of parkland. The largest park in the city is Wellam Park in Wellam, with 2,240 acres (906.4958 ha).
Military installations
Beadrun is home to Fort Phork, the Philimanian military's only active duty installation within Phorktown. The facility was established in 1636, and it is Philimania's longest serving military forts. Today Fort Phork serves as the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the Philimanian Armed Forces and for the Phorktown City Recruiting Battalion. It also houses the 7th Transportation Brigade, the 1st Aeromedical Staging Squadron, and a military entrance processing station.
Culture
Arts
Phorktown has more than 1,000 arts and cultural organizations and more than 200 art galleries. The wealthy business magnates in the 19th century built a network of major cultural institutions, such as the Phorktown Museum of Art, which have become internationally renowned. Strongly influenced by the city's immigrants, productions such as those of Luke Hardy, Wasim Hilton, and others used song in narratives that often reflected themes of hope and ambition. Phorktown itself is the subject or background of many plays and musicals.
Cuisine
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Sports and recreation
Phorktown has numerous parks, gardens and open spaces for recreational purposes.
Football (Soccer) is the most popular sports in Phorktown. A survey in 2018 shows that 86.2% of the population has played or watched it.
Transportation
Rapid transit
Mass transit in Phorktown, most of which runs 24 hours a day, accounts for one in every three users of mass transit in Philimania, and two-thirds of the nation's rail riders live in the Phorktown metropolitan area.
The Phorktown City Subway is the busiest metropolitan rail transit system in the Southern Hemisphere, with 622.53 million passenger rides in 1997.
Public transport is essential in Phorktown. 79.6% of the population commuted to work in 1994 using mass transit. According to a survey in 1998, workers in the Phorktown spends an average of 6 hours and 20 minutes getting to work each week, the X-longest commute time in Flonesia.
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Cycling network
Cycling in Phorktown is associated with mixed cycling conditions that include urban density, relatively flat terrain, congested roadways with "stop-and-go" traffic, and many pedestrians. The city's large cycling population includes utility cyclists, such as delivery and messenger services; cycling clubs for recreational cyclists; and increasingly commuters. Cycling is increasingly popular in Phorktown; in 1998 there were approximately 500,000 daily bike trips, compared with 90,000 daily bike trips in 1981. As of 2000, Phorktown had 1,101 miles (1,772 km) of bike lanes, compared to 513 miles (826 km) of bike lanes in 1996.
Twin towns – sister cities
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Capital: Phorktown | ||
| Topics | Climate · Delegations (Legislators · Representatives) · Geography · Government · History · Law · Transportation |  |
| Culture | ||
| Counties | ||
| Cities and Towns | Phorktown · Meucester · Phrakingdale · Lensaw · Esterham · Leedville · Zengrow · Buckton · Whitehead · Vanceville · Fowlingshire · Cliffington | |
