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A city-state is an independent sovereign city which serves as the center of political, economic, and cultural life over its contiguous territory. [1] They have existed in many parts of the world throughout history, including cities such as Rome, Carthage, Athens and Sparta and the Italian city-states during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, such as Florence, Venice, Genoa and Milan.
state Land Germany (official term) state lieu-dit France: place name linn Estonia: town or city lugar Cape Verde: division of zona in Cape Verde Portugal: hamlet lungsod Philippines: city maakond Estonia: county մարզ Armenia: province or region mahoz Israel: district mancomunidad Spain: association of municipalities, commonwealth merindad
Though traditionally used to refer to a fortress or a walled town, modern usage of the term can variably refer to any town with its own local self-government, a formal or informal subdivision of a large metropolis (as in New York City and London), or an entire administrative region (as in the U.S. state of Alaska). bottomland See floodplain.
Ashgabat, the capital city-region 4 boroughs or districts (uly etraplar) (as of 2018) Tuvalu: Unitary 9 districts: Uganda: Unitary 135 districts 1 city: 167 counties 31 municipalities 25 city divisions 1,496 subcounties 580 town councils 89 municipal divisions/boroughs 10,717 parishes 71,213 villages [40] Ukraine: Regional 24 oblasts (regions) [bu]
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
العربية; Azərbaycanca; تۆرکجه; Башҡортса; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Буряад
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
For example, Los Angeles runs its own water and power utilities and its own elevator inspection department, while many other cities rely upon private utilities and the state elevator inspectors. San Francisco is the only consolidated city-county in the state.