Geography General Knowledge #7

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.

Please don't interrupt us ;-)

Also, those cliffs aren't white.

But Pisa Tower was not.

I think it has to do with the amount of salt in the water, but I'm no expert.

That's clever, because every (natural) island in the world is formerly uninhabited!