Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)
Date: Sep 16, 2002 @ 09:07
Author: Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell <kevin@...>)
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>I am sorry I wrote "city". Probably I should have been writing "town". (InYes, this is yet another issue. I believe it's also the same in Dutch -
>Norwegian it is the same one word for both the English words, and American
>tourists are frequently naming any small village of ours "a city", which
>makes us to do the same ;-)))
>I cannot understand why it should be so difficult to prove if a city hasI know you need to draw boundaries somewhere (;-)), but municipalities
>that big population or not. Hammerfest municipality today has about 9200
>persons which makes it not that far away.
>According to my Webster a town is "a village with a regular market place",That definition of a village is quite dubious ;-)
>and a city is "an important town".