Zaliv, Alen Island



Zaliv is the capital city of the Taatiklarian province of Alen Island. It is also the 4th largest city in the province, and the largest city in the province outside of the Esse metropolitan area. It was founded by Romanikan Mladen Manushev and the group of other colonists he led, in C.Y. 61, as the first settlement on the island.

Income
18.1% of Zaliv's residents were low-income (per capita income of <$10,000 / year) according to the C.Y. 250 census.

Gender, Sexuality
The city was 50.5% male, 47.3% female and 2.2% other (non-binary, questioning, etc.) according to the C.Y. 250 census. 24% of the city's population were non-heterosexual, and 4.9% were transgender.

Racial demographics
The city was 92.8% White, 2.0% Arab, 1.9% East Asian, 1.4% Black, 1.2% Latin American, 0.5% South Asian, 0.2% Indigenous Oceanian and <0.1% Indigenous American according to the C.Y. 250 census. 7.8% of the city's population said they had mixed racial ancestry.

Language
99% of the city's population were proficient in English, 36% were proficient in Taatiklarian, and 10% were proficient in Spanish according to the C.Y. 250 census. 51% of the city's population were also proficient in Bulgarian, 47% were proficient in Romanikan and 24% were proficient in Russian. Zaliv is the only city in all of Taatiklatar where the second and third-most spoken languages are not English, Spanish, or Taatiklarian.