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Despite being referred to as a "city", Līlasuṃghāṇa is an ''eparchy'', which means that it has - at least for the core wards, called sectors (''chūltāk'', sg. ''chūltām'') a consolidated government at the level of cities, circuits, provinces, and even some functions of the diocese itself. Administratively, there are, however, places in Līlasuṃghāṇa designed as cities, parishes, or even villages: the area of the eparchy is extremely large, covering also some valleys of tributaries of the Lanamilūki river to the south where the only settlements are floating villages in the middle of [[w:Igapó|igapós]]. About 45% of the land area of the eparchy is covered by rainforest or swampland. | Despite being referred to as a "city", Līlasuṃghāṇa is an ''eparchy'', which means that it has - at least for the core wards, called sectors (''chūltāk'', sg. ''chūltām'') a consolidated government at the level of cities, circuits, provinces, and even some functions of the diocese itself. Administratively, there are, however, places in Līlasuṃghāṇa designed as cities, parishes, or even villages: the area of the eparchy is extremely large, covering also some valleys of tributaries of the Lanamilūki river to the south where the only settlements are floating villages in the middle of [[w:Igapó|igapós]]. About 45% of the land area of the eparchy is covered by rainforest or swampland. | ||
The eparchy of Līlasuṃghāṇa, at the 3872 (6422<sub>10</sub>) census, had a population of 9Ɛ.42.535 <small>(29,698,169<sub>10</sub>)</small> people. The Līlasuṃghāṇa metropolitan area is the second-largest in the world (after the polycentric conurbation of eastern Hachitama diocese) and extends into neighboring parts of Nanašīrama and also the dioceses of Talæñoya to the south as well as Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Kāṃradeša across the lake. Usāṃrātnam sector is the most populated subdivision in the eparchy; the areas typically know as "the center" are Kahērimaila sector, seat of the Inquisitorial Palace, of the Blossoming Temple, and of most central institutions of the Inquisition, and the six sectors encircling it (Lūṣyambādhi, Hūneidauṣa, Nājāmiḍāra, | The eparchy of Līlasuṃghāṇa, at the 3872 (6422<sub>10</sub>) census, had a population of 9Ɛ.42.535 <small>(29,698,169<sub>10</sub>)</small> people. The Līlasuṃghāṇa metropolitan area is the second-largest in the world (after the polycentric conurbation of eastern Hachitama diocese) and extends into neighboring parts of Nanašīrama and also the dioceses of Talæñoya to the south as well as Šraḍhaṃñælihæka and Kāṃradeša across the lake. Usāṃrātnam sector is the most populated subdivision in the eparchy; the areas typically know as "the center" are Kahērimaila sector, seat of the Inquisitorial Palace, of the Blossoming Temple, and of most central institutions of the Inquisition, and the six sectors encircling it (Lūṣyambādhi, Hūneidauṣa, Nājāmiḍāra, Haleikēlṭah, Saṃryojyam, and Janaimarta). | ||
Chlouvānem is the administrative language of the city, spoken, as in the whole Inquisition, in a state of diglossia alongside the local vernacular; the Līlasuṃghāṇi vernacular (natively ''lilœsuhæñ dåṭ'' but usually just referred to as ''dåṭ mysæ'' "our language") shares traits with most vernaculars of the eastern part of the Jade Coast.<br/> | Chlouvānem is the administrative language of the city, spoken, as in the whole Inquisition, in a state of diglossia alongside the local vernacular; the Līlasuṃghāṇi vernacular (natively ''lilœsuhæñ dåṭ'' but usually just referred to as ''dåṭ mysæ'' "our language") shares traits with most vernaculars of the eastern part of the Jade Coast.<br/> | ||
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* Old and historical districts, including for example the historical center and main downtown area, Kahērimaila (where the main offices of the Inquisition's government, including the Inquisitorial Palace, lie), predominantly made of centuries-old [[w:Shophouse|terraced shophouses]], detached buildings, and (less so in Kahērimaila, more in other such older villages) former agrarian courts; | * Old and historical districts, including for example the historical center and main downtown area, Kahērimaila (where the main offices of the Inquisition's government, including the Inquisitorial Palace, lie), predominantly made of centuries-old [[w:Shophouse|terraced shophouses]], detached buildings, and (less so in Kahērimaila, more in other such older villages) former agrarian courts; | ||
* Modern residential districts, which make up most of the built area of the city, predominantly made of [[w:Plattenbau|panel apartment buildings]], ranging from 4 or 5 stories tall in some earlier neighbourhoods up to 20 story tall buildings in more recently built complexes. | * Modern residential districts, which make up most of the built area of the city, predominantly made of [[w:Plattenbau|panel apartment buildings]], ranging from 4 or 5 stories tall in some earlier neighbourhoods up to 20 story tall buildings in more recently built complexes. | ||
* The | * The sector of Janaimarta (at the mouth of the Hanaiyami into Lūlunikam Lake) and the neighboring western part of Lūṣyambādhi are mostly made of office towers and include some of the tallest skyscrapers in the Inquisition and on Calémere. The Janaimarta ("port city") sector, actually, is a recent development on the site of the former lake port. Most industrial port facilities have nowadays been moved away from the city, directly on the sea, about 190 km east. | ||
* On the hillier shores of Lake Lūlunīkam, south of the central part there are many small villages detached from the main urban tissue, mostly with the layout of older fishing villages. Some of them are still home to a few fishermen or descendants of fishermen's families which actually own the houses they live in (something very rare in the Inquisition), and some of those villages are more upper-class than other areas of the city as houses there have been assigned to artists or scientists. Malįihālia, one of those villages, is the birthplace of incumbent Great Inquisitor Hæliyǣšāvi Dhṛṣṭāvāyah ''Lairē'', descendant of an old fisherman family<ref>However, no direct-descent relative of the incumbent Great Inquisitor has been a fisherman in the last three generations.</ref>. | * On the hillier shores of Lake Lūlunīkam, south of the central part there are many small villages detached from the main urban tissue, mostly with the layout of older fishing villages. Some of them are still home to a few fishermen or descendants of fishermen's families which actually own the houses they live in (something very rare in the Inquisition), and some of those villages are more upper-class than other areas of the city as houses there have been assigned to artists or scientists. Malįihālia, one of those villages, is the birthplace of incumbent Great Inquisitor Hæliyǣšāvi Dhṛṣṭāvāyah ''Lairē'', descendant of an old fisherman family<ref>However, no direct-descent relative of the incumbent Great Inquisitor has been a fisherman in the last three generations.</ref>. | ||