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

'''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.

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:

| 24,987,471 || 84,14%

| 386,849 || 1,30%

| 111,282 || 0,37%

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.