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n. a city that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity
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An independent city or independent town is a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity (such as a county).
Independent city may refer to:
- City-state, an independent country consisting of a city and its hinterland
- a city that is separate from other local government entities such as counties
- Independent city (United States)
In the United States, an independent city is a city that is not in the territory of any county or counties with exceptions noted below.
Of the forty-one independent U.S. cities, thirty-eight are in Virginia, whose state constitution makes them a special case. The three independent cities outside of Virginia are Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis, Missouri; and Carson City, Nevada.
The U.S. Census Bureau uses counties as its base unit for presentation of statistical information, and treats independent cities as county equivalents for those purposes. Baltimore, Maryland is the largest independent city in the United States.
Usage examples of "independent city".
Palmyra insensibly increased into an opulent and independent city, and connecting the Roman and the Parthian monarchies by the mutual benefits of commerce, was suffered to observe an humble neutrality, till at length, after the victories of Trajan, the little republic sunk into the bosom of Rome, and flourished more than one hundred and fifty years in the subordinate though honorable rank of a colony.
Padua was an independent city-state through the Middle Ages but in 1405 it was absorbed into the territory of the Venetian republic and was still part of it in Shakespeare's time (and remained so till 1797).
Malta repeatedly but quietly asserted that Bingtown was an independent city-state, yet she did not claim to be its representative.
The Venetians, on the whole, were dressed to display the fact that this was still probably the richest independent city in Christendom.
Modern Dubrovnik had once been an independent city-state republic called Ragusa, the first foreign government in the world to recognize the infant United States of America in 1776.
The troops from Marsember were descendants of the original smugglers and pirates who had founded and refounded that swampy, independent city.
As it was, the Militants had gotten their way and thereby put every independent city on Saturn on their guard.
It has become clear to us that such incidents come at the instigation of Freegate, the so-called independent city east of the Keel of Heaven.
On the way north there were independent city-states to be reduced: Modena, Mirandola, family seat of the magnificent Pico.