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	City-States

kmcolo

3-31-2009 9:37 AM

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kmcolo says:

In some sense, all cities are islands, isolated and on their own. Much of current national level political tension in the world today is played out between those in cities and those from the more rural areas. But... Using the political-geographic definition there are presently only three city-states in the world.

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