| A | B |
| Arable | land fit for growing crops |
| Bilingual | able to speak two languages |
| Chicago | third-largest city in the United States |
| Megalopolis | group of cities that have grown in to one large, built-up area |
| Seattle | Pacific Coast city where many software companies are located and an important trading port with Asia |
| Flanders | northern coastal region of Belgium |
| sequent occupance | settlement by successive groups of people with distinctive cultures |
| European Union | economic and political cooperative organization |
| primate city | first-ranked and dominant city in a country |
| Paris | a primate city |
| uninhabitable | unable to support human life |
| cosmopolitan | characterized by many foreign influences |
| Belfast | a city in Northern Ireland |
| confederation | a group of states joined together for a common purpose |
| exclave | area separated from the rest of a country by another country |
| alliance | an agreement between countries to support one another |
| Vienna | capital of Austria |
| Bavaria | largest German state in area |
| Zürich | largest city in Switzerland and a world banking center |
| canton | Swiss state |