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What is the best definition of a “city-state”?

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A form of government in which the center of political, economic, and cultural life is a self-governing metropolis with jurisdiction over an adjacent region.

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city-state, a political system consisting of an independent city having sovereignty over contiguous territory and serving as a centre and leader of political, economic, and cultural life.
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