Another level of debate has been on the relative geopolitical significance of each city.

In the cold war embassy, politics and architecture combined to give the curtain wall geopolitical significance.

The confidence of Russia's new generation that it can actually do this "capitalist thing" has enormous geopolitical significance.

The story is that this Israeli withdrawal is of huge geopolitical significance for the Middle East.

The Middle East has been a region of geopolitical and economic significance to the world far before American involvement in the area.

It is a mountainous country of particular geopolitical significance owing to its location in three spheres of Asia.

The Soviet collapse has reduced to zero whatever geopolitical significance this conflict might ever have possessed.

The geopolitical significance of these countries is linked to their strategic position in relation to energy resources in Central Asia.

However, other international players are thriving: cornflakes, after all, do not enjoy the same geopolitical significance as oil and gas.

In a statement, the Russian and Chinese Presidents played down any geopolitical significance to their meeting.