It might be an urban agglomeration, a conurbation or a metropolitan area.
This would be called a "City-State"
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city-state
If one nation, or an independent piece of territory, is surrounded totally by one other it is called an enclave.If it is not an independent piece of territory, but is a part of a different country, it is called an exclave.
That is a city state.
A city-state.
The capital and largest city is Maseru
In India, Nagpur is often called the Orange city.
It is surrounded by water and it is Stockholm
A political unit made up of a city and surrounding villages is called a metropolitan area or urban agglomeration.
The lake was called lake texcoco
Its a city state
Its a city state
It means that there was no one major government but many smaller villages or "city states".
A community that included a city and its nearby farmlands was called a "city-state". The nearby land might include several villages.
city-state
Brisbane is a city with suburbs, not towns. It is also surrounded by smaller cities, including Redlands and Ipswich.
It is surrounded by water and it is Stockholm
There is no Batican City but there is a country called Vatican City. It is the smallest country in the world and is completely surrounded by the city of Rome, in Italy.
at the center of each city-state was a temple, called a ziggurat, surrounded by courts.