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** Actually, ancient Greek ''poléis'' had other towns in their territory. They were called ''démoi''. The important thing in a Greek city-state was not the city, but its citizens. A citizen of Athens could live outside Athens, in a small village at the other side of the Attic region, but he was still Athenian.
** Also many of the smaller states that made up the [[Holy Roman Empire]].
**Like many steepelanders the [[Kievan Rus]] had these. Notable among them are Kiev and Novgorad. City-States often
* [[New Zealand]] has a population of 4.3 million, with more than a quarter of those people living in Auckland (1.3 million). The next largest cities are not even a third its size.
* [[North Korea]], Pyongyang is the only city of any significance. Satellite photos shows that its only city that has any lights the rest of North Korea are pitch black [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Korean_peninsula_at_night.jpg].
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