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English
Etymology
From city + state, a calque of German Stadtstaat.
Noun
city state (plural city states)
- A sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities.
Singapore is the world's most populous city state and the only island city-state in the world.
Synonyms
Translations
sovereign city
- Arabic: دولة مدينة (dawla madīna)
- Armenian: քաղաք-պետություն (kʻaġakʻ-petutʻyun)
- Azerbaijani: şəhər-dövlət
- Belarusian: Горад-дзяржава (Hórad-dzjaržava)
- Bengali: নগররাষ্ট্র (nogroraśṭro)
- Burmese: မြို့ပြနိုင်ငံ (mrui.pra.nuingngam)
- Catalan: ciutat estat f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 城邦 (sing4 bong1), 城國 / 城国 (sing4 gwok3), 市國 / 市国 (si5 gwok3), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (sing4 si5 gwok3 gaa1), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (dou1 si5 gwok3 gaa1)
- Eastern Min: 城邦 (siàng-băng), 城國 / 城国 (siàng-guók), 市國 / 市国 (chê-guók), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (siàng-chê guók-gă), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (dŭ-chê guók-gă)
- Hakka: 城邦 (sàng-pâng), 城國 / 城国 (sàng-koet), 市國 / 市国 (sṳ-koet), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (sàng-sṳ koet-kâ), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (tû-sṳ koet-kâ)
- Hokkien: 城邦 (siâⁿ-pang), 城國 / 城国 (siâⁿ-kok), 市國 / 市国 (chhī-kok), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (siâⁿ-chhī kok-ka), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (to͘-chhǐ kok-ka)
- Mandarin: 城邦 (zh) (chéngbāng), 城國 / 城国 (chéngguó), 市國 / 市国 (zh) (shìguó), 城市國家 / 城市国家 (chéngshì guójiā), 都市國家 / 都市国家 (zh) (dūshì guójiā)
- Czech: městský stát
- Danish: bystat
- Dutch: stadstaat (nl) m, burgerij (nl) f
- Esperanto: Urboŝtato
- Estonian: linnriik
- Finnish: kaupunkivaltio (fi)
- French: cité-État (fr) f
- Galician: cidade estado f
- Georgian: ქალაქ-სახელმწიფო (kalak-saxelmc̣ipo)
- German: Stadtstaat (de) m
- Greek: πόλη κράτος (el) f (póli krátos), πόλη (el) f (póli)
- Ancient: πόλις f (pólis)
- Hebrew: עיר-מדינה ('ír-m'diná)
- Hindi: नगर-राज्य (nagar-rājya)
- Hungarian: városállam (hu)
- Icelandic: Borgríki
- Indonesian: negara kota (id)
- Italian: città-stato (it) f or f pl
- Japanese: 都市国家 (ja) (としこっか, toshikokka), 市国 (しこく, shikoku)
- Kazakh: қала-мемлекет (qala-memleket)
- Korean: 도시국가(都市國家) (dosigukga), 시국(市國) (ko) (siguk)
- Latin: cīvitās (la) f, urbs-civitas f
- Latvian: pilsētvalsts f
- Lithuanian: miestas-valstybė
- Macedonian: град-држава m (grad-država)
- Malay:
- Jawi: نݢارا کوتا
- Rumi: negara kota
- Mongolian: хот улс (xot uls)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: bystat m
- Nynorsk: bystat m
- Persian: دولتشهر (fa) (dowlat-šahr)
- Polish: miasto-państwo (pl) n
- Portuguese: cidade-estado (pt) f, cidade-Estado f
- Romanian: oraş-stat n
- Russian: го́род-госуда́рство (ru) m (górod-gosudárstvo)
- Scots: ceety-state
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: гра̑д-др̀жава
- Roman: grad-država m
- Slovak: mestský štát
- Slovene: mestna država
- Spanish: ciudad estado m
- Swahili: dola-mji
- Swedish: stadsstat (sv) c
- Tamil: நகர அரசு (nakara aracu)
- Thai: นครรัฐ (th) (ná-kɔɔn-rát)
- Turkish: şehir devleti (tr), site devlet
- Ukrainian: Місто-держава (Misto-deržava)
- Uzbek: shahar davlat
- Vietnamese: thành bang (城邦)
- Volapük: zifatat
- Welsh: dinas-wladwriaeth
- Yiddish: שטאָטס־שטאַט (shtots-shtat)
- Yoruba: ìlú
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Further reading
city-state on Wikipedia.Wikipedia