List of largest cities and second-largest cities by country

This is a list of the largest and second-largest cities by population in each country. If a territory or region of a certain country is listed, the name of the country is specified in parentheses immediately after the name of the territory.

Capital cities are in bold.

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First City Regiment

First City (abbreviated to FC) is an air assault infantry regiment of the South African Army. As a reserve unit, it has a status roughly equivalent to that of a British Army Reserve or United States Army National Guard unit.

History

The regiment was formed from the First City Volunteers of Grahamstown that were formed in 1875 in Grahamstown and the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers that were formed in 1860 (Re-raised 1883) in Queenstown and These Regiments were formed due to the unrest on the then Frontier.

The QVR and the FCV fought in the Cape Frontier Wars 9th Frontier War (1877–1878), the QVR fought in the Morosi Campaign (1879). FCV fought in the Basutoland Gun War (1880–1881). The QVR and the FCV later fought in the Bechuanaland campaign (1897), and in the Second Boer War|Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902).

On 1 July 1913, the QVR amalgamated with the FCV and was incorporated into the Citizen Force of the new Union Defence Force as the 4th Infantry (First Eastern Rifles). It served in German South West Africa 1914–1915.