If the city is conceived as a two-dimensional place in which to live and work, then in is the usual preposition. If, on the other hand, the city is conceived as a single point rather than as a place with dimensions, then at is the common choice. This explains the difference between sentences such as: I live in Frankfurt.

Do not capitalize city when referring New York City in generic terms; for example, We visited New York City. The city was like any other except more so. I’d say the same goes when referring to the City of London, as opposed to London as a whole; the City (that is, London’s financial district) is, like Wall Street, a proper name in its own ...

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2017年6月28日 · I know we generally use in for "city, town and country ". But I am confused about when "the country " follows "the city". Which one should we use? 1) I live in Mumbai in India. 2) I live at

2017年10月21日 · The main city has its own local government, and nearby smaller cities and towns have their own governments. One way of picturing a metropolitan area is the territory covered by broadcast television stations, because usually over-the-air signals can travel maybe 80 km (50 miles), and do not stop for city and town borders.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a city is "an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village"; a town is "a compactly settled area usually larger than a village but smaller than a city"; and a village is "a settlement usually larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town".

I am on the planet Earth in the United States on the East coast in New York City on the Lower East Side in a commercial district on a street in a building at a desk in a chair. Yeah, "at" seems pretty specific. –

2015年10月13日 · the State of Washington, the County of Hampton, the City of New York. From Allan Siegal & William Connolly, The New York Times Manual of Stylr and Usage, revised edition1999): state. Capitalize New York State, Washington State and formal references to any state government: The State of Ohio brought the suit.

2016年9月25日 · Is councilor the spelling used in the U.S., while councillor the spelling used in Canada, UK, and most places internationally? Hilariously, Google will use both councilor and councillor in the same

Some publications (The Economist magazine) use this, but it seems highbrow, unusual and weird to a teenage audience. It would look wrong next to city-state pairs from other countries (e.g. Berlin, Germany). Only listing the city is ambiguous, as city names repeat often in the USA (there are 28 Springfields).