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  2. City proper - Wikipedia

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    In encyclopedias, the term "city proper" is often used as an example to illustrate a meaning of the word "proper" as "tightly defined".. The term is a combination of "city" in the sense of "an incorporated administrative district", [8] and "proper" in the sense of "strictly limited to a specified thing, place, or idea" or "strictly accurate". [9]

  3. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name.

  4. List of adjectivals and demonyms for cities - Wikipedia

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    Notable examples are cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. Note: Many of these adjectivals and demonyms are not used in English as frequently as their counterparts in other languages. A common practice is to use a city's name as if it were an adjective, as in "Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra", "Melbourne suburbs", etc.

  5. Toponymy - Wikipedia

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    astionyms - proper names of towns and cities. [18] comonyms - proper names of villages. [19] hydronyms - proper names of various bodies of water, [20] including: helonyms - proper names of swamps, marshes and bogs. [21] limnonyms - proper names of lakes and ponds. [22] oceanonyms - proper names of oceans. [23] pelagonyms - proper names of seas ...

  6. Lists of cities - Wikipedia

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    List of cities proper by population; List of cities with the most skyscrapers; List of cities with more than one commercial airport; List of city name changes; List of largest cities throughout history; List of national capitals; List of ghost towns by country; List of towns and cities with 100,000 or more inhabitants; Lists of city flags

  7. List of adjectival and demonymic forms of place names

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    The following is a partial list of adjectival forms of place names in English and their demonymic equivalents, which denote the people or the inhabitants of these places. Note: Demonyms are given in plural forms.

  8. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States

  9. List of United States cities by population - Wikipedia

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    The name of the state in which the city lies [1] The city population as of July 1, 2023, as estimated by the United States Census Bureau [1] The city population as of April 1, 2020, as enumerated by the 2020 United States census [1] The city percent population change from April 1, 2020, to July 1, 2023; The city land area as of January 1, 2020 [2]