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What are the characteristics of a city state

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A city-state is an independent entity whose territory consists of a city which is not administered as part of another local government.
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a city state is a city and a large surrounding area

-there is one defined center of the area (the city)

-they were not normally presided over by a larger federal government

-the surrounding area was generally farmland

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