Paris of the East

Usually a calque of French Paris de l’Orient, praising a location for its supposed resemblance to the glamor and nightlife of 19th-century Paris.

Paris of the East

1. (dated) Synonym of Bucharest, Romania.
2. (dated) Synonym of Casablanca, Morocco.
3. (obsolete) Synonym of Lahore in British India.
4. (dated) Synonym of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
5. (dated) Synonym of Hanoi, Vietnam.
6. (dated) Synonym of Shanghai, China.

• Peter Soppelsa, "How Haussmann's Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic", Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?, 2017.