Are the words Town and city synonymous or the cities are places bigger than the towns?

Answer 1

This is where the common dictionary becomes your best friend and most appropriate tool. Look up city and town. With your background and life experience, I truly believe that after you read the definitions you'll be able to get the perspective you seek on those words.

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Answer 2

Not always, just depends on your use of the two words. I consider a town to be a smaller community than a city. People used to say they were going to town which meant they were going shopping. All kinds of different thoughts on the word. Basically I call a town larger than 100,000 people a city.

Answer 3

I believe towns have ordinances which state that if its population gets over a certain number, then it can opt to be a city and thus, chage the form of the government somewhat. Our town just turned down city status that we earned when we reached 50,000people. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Generally cities are much bigger than towns.

Answer 5

It is a bit confusing...states are divided into counties, counties are divided into towns. Also, there can be a city in a county. Further there can be a village within a town or towns. Cities are generally large population centers, villages are smaller population centers.