GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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A large city.
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A state with a big city in it.
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A city with its surrounding territory forms and independent state.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A city-state is an independent city-and sometimes its surrounding land-which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries. Monaco is a city-state. Today, there are only five city-states that are truly self-governing, but in the past this was more common.
Detailed explanation-2: -A city-state is an independent city which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries. Athens and Sparta were the most influential city states of Greece.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nowadays, we have Singapore, Monaco, and the Vatican as the modern independent city-states; whereas cities such as Hong Kong, Macau, and Dubai are autonomous cities-independently functioning with their own governments but are still part of larger nations.
Detailed explanation-4: -With the rise of nation states worldwide, only a few modern sovereign city-states exist, with some disagreement as to which qualify; Monaco, Singapore and Vatican City are most commonly accepted as such.