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|+ <big>'''''Līlasuṃghāṇa'''''</big><br/>'''''Liysuṃghuṇa'''''

| ''Līlasuṃghāṇa ga nīrvaṣa''<br/><small>Eparchy of Līlasuṃghāṇa</small>

| <small>[[Chlouvānem|Chl.]]:</small> Līlasuṃghāṇi ; Līlasuṃghānyūs<br/><small>Nan.:</small> Liysuṃghuñn ; Liɂñ

'''Līlasuṃghāṇa''' ("[place of] singing ''nāmñē'' cubs"; [[Chlouvānem]] pronunciation: {{IPA|[ɴ̆iːɴ̆ɐsũgʱäːɳɐ]}}; Līlasuṃghāṇi vernacular: ''Liysuṃghuṇa'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆ii̯ʃỹˈɡʱyːɳɐ]}}; popularly shortened to <small>(Chl.)</small> ''Līlah'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆iːɴ̆ɐɦ]}} or <small>(vern.)</small> ''Liɂ'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆iɁ]}}) is the capital of the [[Verse:Chlouvānem Inquisition|Chlouvānem Inquisition]], the holy city of the ''[[Verse:Yunyalīlta|Yunyalīlta]]'', an ''eparchy'' (Chl.: ''nīrvaṣa'') within the diocese of ''Nanašīrama'', which it is also the episcopal seat of, and the largest city on [[Verse:Calémere|Calémere]], even though it is not, administratively, a single city.

An inhabitant of the city is referred to as ''Līlasuṃghāṇi'' or, more formally, ''Līlasuṃghānyūs''. In the vernacular, the demonym is ''Liysuṃghuñn'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆ii̯ʃỹˈɡʱyɲ]}}. The vernacular-derived form ''Liɂñ'' {{IPA|[ɴ̆iɁɲ]}}, rendered as ''Liɂña'' in Chlouvānem, is commonly used both in the vernacular and in Chlouvānem, albeit only informally.

* ''Līlah'' (vern. ''Liɂ''), a shortening which is how the city is usually called in common speech;

While for many centuries there were various settlements in the swamplands and by the hills of today's Līlasuṃghāṇa, the founding of the city itself happened in 4826 (2962₁₂) by order of Great Inquisitor Ṣrāvamaili ga Kālomitāvi ''Dalaigana'', aiming to build the holiest city the world had ever seen. The center of this settlement was on a bigger hammock in the swamp, not far from the Talitanah river and about three kilometers upstream from the lakeside - today's Ṣrāvamaila ("clear water") sector, named after the founding Great Inquisitor's regnal name. The only access to the early city was from the Talitanah river, and a smaller settlement was built at its mouth, functioning as a gate for the city - this area has been later remodelled by land reclamation and it is now the Janaimarta ("port city") sector; many foundation-era buildings can however be seen in the ''talitanah ga maiti memāyi jarmāṇa'' (Talitanah River Mouth Park), part of Saṃryojyam sector, and by the rest of the Saṃryojyam lakeshore. Haleikēlṭah, just opposite the Talitanah from Ṣrāvamaila, became in the following centuries an important merchant quarter.

Līlasuṃghāṇa is situated in the diocese of Nanaširama, comprising almost all of its western third<ref>Excluding an area further west, across Lake Lūlunīkam.</ref>, extending from the southeastern shore of Lake Lūlunīkam (''lūlunīkam ga gūltis''), a tidal inlet of the Jahībušanī Sea (''jahībušanī ga jaryā''), linked to it by the ~150 km long Kyūkamiša [[w:ria|ria]] (''kyūkamiša ga omotē''<ref>In ancient times, the Kyūkamiša was called a river (''kyūkamiša ga maita''), and this usage was common until about the Nāɂahilūmi era. Nowadays it is referred to as a ria~fjord (both expressed as ''omotē'' < Holenagic ''âmoteit'', ''-âmht'', and not distinguished except when the distinction is meaningful; note that it is "fjord", the original Holenagic meaning, to be specified, as rias are much more common in the Inquisition) in Chlouvānem as well as in the Līlasuṃghāṇi and Kaṃradeši vernaculars, but eastern Nanaširami vernaculars still call it "river".</ref>), to the rainforested hills dividing the Lanamilūki valley (''lanamilūki ga maiti inai'') from the rest of Nanaširama (which drains directly into the Kyūkamiša ria or into the Jahībušanī Sea).<br/>

The eparchy is the largest subdivision of its kind in the Inquisition, and - if considered as a city - one of the largest municipalities by area on Calémere. However, the urban area is far smaller - about half of the land area in the eparchy consists of forested areas or wetlands.

Most of the central built-up area is located on a former drained swamp; the necessity of draining the swampland resulted in many central sectors of the city (most notably Haleikēlṭah, Hūneidauṣa, and Lūṣyambādhi, but also Ṣrāvamaila  and to lesser extents Saṃryojyam and Hilaiñāña) having a network of canals; especially in Haleikēlṭah and Ṣrāvamaila, which are the oldest parts of the city, these were constructed in ancient times in order to ease movement of goods. The whole sector of Janaimarta, nearly all of the island where the main airport lies (in Abhākṣamyalka sector), about half of Saṃryojyam and Hilaiñāña, and parts of Lūṣyambadhi were reclaimed from the lake.

! colspan=16 | Climate data for the ''Weather Institute at G.I. Namihūlšāvi Šūlteniyæha Nājaldhīm Airport'', Abhākṣamyalka sector<br/><small>''(širē aveṣyotārire lallāmaha Namihūlšāvi yamei Šūlteniyæhom Nājaldhīmom camimurkadhānom lairkeike pāsaunašmilkūrah)''</small>

Līlasuṃghāṇa is possibly the Chlouvānem city with the highest number of old nobiliar palaces. For a period in Chlouvānem history, it was common for many royal families to have a "representation palace" in the holy city; this makes their number higher than in most other cities, where only the local nobles built their palaces. Most nobiliar palaces in Līlasuṃghāṇa (and all royal ones) are located in Ṣrāvamaila, with a minor number of them in neighboring Lūṣyambādhi and Hūneidauṣa.<br/>After the deposition of nobility in the Nāɂahilūmi era and the expropriation of former noble properties in the first years of the Kaiṣamā, all former royal and nobiliar palaces are now property of the State and house either Offices of the Inquisition (for example the Dhārāṣmaja Palace, second-largest in the city (only behind the Inquisitorial Palace) and former representative palace of the Miś Bāniyār<ref>A Širbaghumi-Chlouvānem empire of the early modern era that at its peak ruled over most of the Plain; in Chlouvānem ''bāniyāra ga mīša''.</ref>, houses the Inquisitorial Office of Economic Development), museums (e.g. Māyīmajālta Palace, just opposite the Inquisitorial Palace, which houses the Pan-Inquisitorial Museum of Natural History), or other institutions (e.g. the three palaces composing the Ūjaravāli complex, used by some departments of the Eparchical Ecumenical School of Līlasuṃghāṇa).

84.1% of residents are ethnically Chlouvānem, with the remainder being made up of many other legally recognized ethnicities: Bronics, Kuyugwazians, and Soenjoans are the most represented ones, as the table below shows:

! Bronic

| 519,220 || 1,75%

| 408,223 || 1,37%

| 317,965 || 1,07%

! East Vedrénian<br/>(Raina and others)

| 281,102 || 0,95%

! Dabuke (various peoples)

| 89,365 || 0,30%

| 53,539 || 0,18%

| 49,319 || 0,17%

| 48,737 || 0,16%

| 37,579 || 0,13%

|-

| 31,930 || 0,11%

|-

| 29,752 || 0,10%

| 24,105 || 0,08%

! other ethnicities<br/>indigenous to the Inq.

| 111,282 || 0,37%

Classical Chlouvānem is the city's most spoken language and its administrative language; 70% of all inhabitants also speak the local vernacular, Līlasuṃghāṇi (''Liɂ ha dhaḷa'' {{IPA|[ˈɴ̆iɁ‿xa ˈdʱaːɭɐ]}}), a dialect inside the Southern Jade Coast dialect continuum. The most spoken native language excluding these two has been found to be the Western Chlouvānem Creole, spoken by about 4% of people. Among non-Chlouvānem languages, the most spoken include [[Brono-Fathanic|Bronic]], [[Kuyugwazian]], [[Soenjoan]], [[Lenyan]], other Kenengyry languages, and various languages from Eastern Védren.

Even by Chlouvānem standards, Līlasuṃghāṇa is a culturally diverse city, first of all because of its position between two major cultural areas, the Great Plain and the South, with traits of both found in the city and its surroundings, and also because of its political role, attracting people from all of the Chlouvānem world and beyond. Even if there is no distinction between Chlouvānem people originating from different areas of the country, it is estimated that only about half of the population (14.5 million people) ethnically belongs to the Jade Coastal subgrouping of the Chlouvānem ethnicity, with Eastern Plain, Western Plain, and Western Chlouvānem being the most represented out of the other subgroupings.

===Entertainment and popular culture===

Laišūkhrāvati Road (''laišūkhrāvati aira''), also known as Laišūkhrāvati Boulevard (a more accurate translation of the Chlouvānem term ''aira''), is one of the major named streets in Līlasuṃghāṇa and a cultural attraction, constituting one of the most famous areas of the city in popular culture. It is located in the eastern part of the sector of Lūṣyambādhi, starting about two kilometres north of the Inquisitorial Palace, and is a part of the axis linking Ṣrāvamaila to the Janaimarta. It takes its name from Laišūkhrāvateh Temple, located at the northern end of the boulevard. The southern half of the boulevard is well-known for its cafés, shops, and theatres, while the northern half crosses the areas between the Inquisitorial Exposition Grounds on the eastern side and the main scientific-technological campus of the Ecumenical School of Līlasuṃghāṇa on the western side. If Ṣrāvamaila is known as the more traditional, religious and high-culture centre of the city with all political centres of the Inquisition being headquartered there, as well as many museums and the historical sūq area, the area around Laišūkhrāvati Road is often considered the major popular entertainment district of the city. Laišūkhrāvati Road, being a broad and iconic boulevard in a central area of the city, is also often used for parades and rallies.