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The name "Ankh-Morpork" refers to both the city itself, a [[defensive wall|walled city]] about {{convert|5|mi|km|0}} across, and the surrounding suburbs and farms of its [[fiefdom]]. The city itself lies on the River Ankh, the most polluted waterway on the Discworld, which divides it into the more affluent Ankh and the poorer Morpork (including the slum-like "Shades"). Lying approximately equidistant from the cold, mountainous Hub and tropical Rim, Ankh-Morpork is in the Discworld's equivalent of the [[temperate]] zone.
Ankh-Morpork is built on black [[loam]], broadly, but it is mostly built on itself; pragmatic citizens simply built on top of the existing buildings rather than excavate them out as the river flooded and the [[sediment]] grew too high. There are many unknown basements, including an entire "cave network" below Ankh-Morpork made up of old streets and abandoned sewers.<ref>{{cite web|page=104|title=The Truth: (Discworld Novel 25)|url=https://books.google.ca/books?id=WzUFi46vNHwC |author=Terry Pratchett |publisher=Random House |year=2008 |isbn=140703524X}} 978140703524</ref>
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