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Summary
city is a classification of human settlements[1]. city ranks in the top 8% of classification of human settlements entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35,800 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Instance of: type of place[3]
- Subclass of: urban settlement[4], city or town[5], municipality[6], administrative territorial entity[7]
- Commons category: Cities[8]
- Said to be the same as: city[9], English-language word "city"[10]
- Has part(s): neighborhood[11]
- Topic's main category: Category:Cities[12]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Cities[13]
- OpenStreetMap tag: place=city[14]
- Described by source: Vlastenský slovník historický[15], Otto's encyclopedia[16], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[17], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Sytin Military Encyclopedia[20], Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition[21], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[22]
- Partially coincident with: control city[23]
- Topic has template: Template:City-stub[24], Template:Infobox city[25], Template:City Wikidata[26], Template:Cities[27]
- Used by: by city[28]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/City[29], https://schema.org/City[30], http://kbpedia.org/kko/rc/City[31], https://sigma.ontologyportal.org/sigma/OWL.jsp?kb=SUMO&flang=OWL&term=City[32]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C25160[33]
- Different from: town[34], metropolitan area[35], city[36], large village[37], Villes[38], big city[39], Camagüey[40], Patras[41], Cities of Turkmenistan[42]
- Properties for this type: P41[43], P94[44], P190[45], P18[46], P242[47], P281[48], P421[49], P473[50], P625[51], P131[52], P948[53], P910[54], P982[55], P935[56]
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Works and Contributions
Things named for city include city pop[57], a music genre[58], founded in 1970[59]; Belgorod[60], a city or town[61], in Russia[62], founded in 1596[63]; metropolis[64]; Myrnohrad[65], a city of regional significance of Ukraine[66], in Ukraine[67], founded in 1911[68]; Al-Balad[69], a surah[70]; Sin City[71], a film production company[72], in United States[73], headquartered in California[74]; Villo![75], a bicycle-sharing system[76], in Belgium[77], founded in 2009[78]; and Meerstad[79], a residential area[80], in Netherlands[81].
Why It Matters
city has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[82] city is known by 50 alternative names across languages and contexts.[83]
Entities named for city include city pop[57], a music genre[58], founded in 1970[59]; Belgorod[60], a city or town[61], in Russia[62], founded in 1596[63]; metropolis[64]; Myrnohrad[65], a city of regional significance of Ukraine[66], in Ukraine[67], founded in 1911[68]; Al-Balad[69], a surah[70]; and Sin City[71], a film production company[72], in United States[73], headquartered in California[74].