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Virginia City

(Encyclopedia)Virginia City, uninc. village (1990 pop. 920), seat of Storey co., W Nev.; settled 1859. Now largely a tourist center, it was the site of the Comstock Lode and a major hub for the mining of silver and...

Carol City

(Encyclopedia)Carol City, uninc. residential city (2020 pop. 40,883), Miami-Dade co., SE Fla., between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. It is a growing middle-class suburb....

Carson City

(Encyclopedia)Carson City, city (2020 pop. 58,639), state capital, W Nev., in the Eagle valley; inc. 1875. The city is a trade center for a mining and agricultural ar...

Cañon City

(Encyclopedia)Cañon City kănˈyən [key], city (2020 pop. 16,693), seat of Fremon...

Bay City

(Encyclopedia)Bay City. 1 City (2020 pop. 32,661), seat of Bay co., S Mich., a port of entry on the Saginaw River at its mouth on Saginaw Bay (an inlet of Lake ...

Vatican City

(Encyclopedia)CE5 Vatican City vătˈĭkən [key] or Holy See, officially Holy See (State of the Vatican City), independent state (2015 est. pop. 1,000), 108.7 acres (44 hectares), within the city of Rome, Italy...

Ventnor City

(Encyclopedia)Ventnor City, city (1990 pop. 11,005), Atlantic co., SE N.J.; inc. 1903. It is a popular seaside resort adjacent to Atlantic City. Located on a 10-mi (16-km) sandbar known as Absecon Beach, Ventnor Ci...

University City

(Encyclopedia)University City, city (1990 pop. 40,087), St. Louis co., E Mo.; inc. 1906. A residential suburb of St. Louis, the city has light manufacturing, including textiles and metal fabrication. Washington Uni...

Uranium City

(Encyclopedia)Uranium City, town, NW Sask., Canada, on Lake Athabasca near the Northwest Territories line. A large uranium-mining area from the 1950s, the closure of its mines in 1982 has led to economic collapse. ...

Belize City

(Encyclopedia)Belize City, capital (1993 est. pop. 47,724) of Belize dist., Belize, at the mouth of the Belize River, on the Caribbean Sea. The river flows c.180 mi (290 km) generally west and is navigable almost t...