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I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London". Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".
by EFreethought 11mo ago
I had a hard time remembering that distinction when I first read about the "City of London".
Here is the US, the "city of Chicago" is the same as "Chicago".
- dboreham 11mo agoSee also: The Loop
- wat10000 11mo agoNew York is an obvious example of two entities of the same name, with the “City of” version being a small part of the larger version. It’s just on a much bigger scale.
- onionisafruit 11mo agoNew Orleans is a city, but City of New Orleans is a train
- wat10000 11mo agoAnd the other terminus is Chicago, thus bringing us full circle. Line. Loop. Whatever.
- IAmBroom 11mo agoThe (US) Port of Toledo wants to join the discussion. Even though a large part of its inhabitants don't realize it has a port.
- wat10000 11mo agoYou'll have to be more specific, there are at least two, a couple thousand miles apart. I like Fairfax, VA. It is surrounded by, but not part of, Fairfax County, VA. Despite this, it still serves as the county seat.
- turbonaut 11mo agoFor further confusion, ‘London’ does not exist at all as a well defined entity and the UK has no de jure capital.
- globular-toast 11mo agoFor even further confusion "London" actually contains two cities: London and Westminster. London was a walled city but Westminster was not. So "London" was we know it today is more like Westminster than London.
- zeristor 11mo agoWhat about Southwark? That has a cathedral too.
- globular-toast 11mo agoA cathedral is neither necessary nor sufficient for city status. City status in the UK is given by the monarch and that's all there is to it. Cambridge is a city without a cathedral and Bury St Edmunds is a town with a cathedral.
- walthamstow 11mo agoIndeed. Southend got city status mostly because their MP was murdered.
- zeristor 11mo agoAs is Southwell.
- Scarblac 11mo agoWhat is the exact job of the mayor of London then?
- defrost 11mo ago
- qingcharles 11mo agoEh. If you live in Schaumburg and someone from England asks where you live, you'd probably just say Chicago. The Windy City does have a kind of "get out" in that people refer to the larger metro area as "Chicagoland" whereas London is still just London thirty miles out from the financial district.