It's a city in every sense but the narrow UK definition of a "legal" city. I mean, it's also a town, so I'm fine with using that in the clue, but if we agreed that Dover is not a city, we kind of would have to also agree that England is a country.
Country, without further specifications, usually means sovereign state. But the definition of city is more vague. It usually means large settlement, but how large is large? A population 100 000 is often taken as a threshold, although not exclusively. Dover has 33 000 people.
What do you mean, "often"? In most languages I know of, "city" is just a generic term for a non-rural settlement. While there may be legal definitions (in France, a "ville" is anything above 2.000 inhabitants), that's not how the term is used. When people say they come "from the city", they mean they live in an urban environment, no matter how many inhabitants it actually has. While Dover may not be a legal city in England, that definition makes no sense to anyone in the rest of the world. Are we expected, for any "cities of the world" quiz, to look up what the specific laws of that country deem a "city"? Are "municipalities", "communities", "federal districts", all cities, even though their particular legal status does not include the term "city"? I really think we should stick to a substantial definition of the word, otherwise, it becomes meaningless in an international context such as jetpunk.
Also, while I love England and have in fact lived and worked there, I like jetpunk's usual policy of not catering to English exceptionnalism and their overblown sense of entitlement and self-importance, which Brexit has so far made even worse (before the inevitable crash).
It's by no means all English people, by the way. In fact, I have never so weird a people as the "English", whatever that means. There is no average English person. Those I have met were all either nasty nationalistic entitled pricks, or some of the most kind and good-hearted people I've ever known, and that's true across all social classes. Weird, weird, place.
I think you have it backwards: it's called the Caspian Sea, but it's sometimes considered a lake. I don't know what exactly the dividing line between "salt water" and "fresh water" is, so I don't know whether it would qualify for this answer.
Round 1, I'm disappointed in myself. I'm from america, and I couldn't remember the White House, but I remembered Archipelago. What is wrong with me????
Me: *Doesn't guess loon*