In this coastal capital, the number of cars is believed to have doubled in two years.

Freetown, the coastal capital, was in a picturesque state of collapse, with no functioning government.

The population of little more than one hundred thousand lived in the coastal capital or in small fishing villages scattered farther to the south.

As the condor flies, Lima is only 125 miles east of here, but by road the trip from Peru's coastal capital takes six hours.

At one point, the plane flew 15 nautical miles from Mogadishu, the coastal capital of Somalia.

Eventually he might go on to the coastal capital of Dar es Salaam.

Every year, 250,000 flee the interior for this coastal capital and end up in dead-end desert shantytowns without water, electricity, schools or steady jobs.

Aley is a beautiful city falling on the southern mountain threshold of Lebanon's coastal capital, Beirut.

Hit the bars and boulevards to see the coastal capital in all its decaying glory.

In virtually every coastal capital of the Northeast, 18th- and 19th-century prisons have found new lives as handicrafts markets.