A city is marked 'opening' once an editor is in place and the first schools are being checked; 'planned' until then. Each city lives at its own address: <city>.eduz.city.
A schematic of the order we're building in — Deoria outward through Gorakhpur, Ballia, Varanasi and on to Lucknow and the NCR side. It's a sketch of intent, not a live tile map.
A school, a local book shop, or a writer in a town we haven't reached yet — that's often how a new city starts.