Hoekyiay

Hoekyiay, known in Hakha simply as "Hok" or "National Capital" is the capital and most populous city of Hakha. The city is currently constituted as an autonomous city, although with some variations, as the city and its metropolitan area are not a subdivision, but the metropolitan area and the surrounding area are part of the "Hoekyiay Region", which is directly under the control of the city, which is why the "mayor" of the city is actually the governor of the region.

It is a global city, with more than 10 million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and is an important trading point due to its privileged location on a peninsula in the Gulf of Yalagch, which is why it is also known as "the city of the gulf". In fact, it is by far the most populous city on the Gulf. It is also a focal point of the Buddhist religion in the Urus subcontinent, with its huge and glamorous pagodas. Other points of interest in the city are its street fairs and its vast forests and green spaces.

The city was founded as a fortress in the midst of a bloody civil war in the last decade or so before Christ, and its prime location for trade, especially maritime trade, caused traders from the area to move en masse to the city, reaching a population of 5000 in just 20 years. Its subsequent rapid growth meant that in a few decades it became more populated than many of the cities already established at that time, which, added to its already mentioned commercial importance, made it the capital of the Kingdom of Hoekyiay, which attracted even more population, being today by far the most populated city in Hakha, housing 1/5 of the population of the whole country in its metropolitan area.

Despite its importance, the city has many internal problems, just one of its major attractions, the street fairs, emerged as a way out of the impossibility of creating a trade due to the high cost of rent, which in turn is generated in response to the immense population density of the city, which counting only its boundaries, reaches a ceiling of 21 per square kilometer. This inhuman overcrowding results in a host of other problems such as poor public health, omnipresent traffic, noise and environmental pollution (despite the large amount of green spaces), a huge amount of precarious housing and poor roads, most of which are made of dirt or sand.