Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Jan Mayen (was: EU or not)<br/>
Date: Sep 16, 2002 @ 09:07<br/>
Author: Kevin Meynell (Kevin Meynell &lt;kevin@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-521576839">Jan,<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;I am sorry I wrote &quot;city&quot;. Probably I should have been writing &quot;town&quot;. (In <br/>
&gt;Norwegian it is the same one word for both the English words, and American <br/>
&gt;tourists are frequently naming any small village of ours &quot;a city&quot;, which <br/>
&gt;makes us to do the same ;-)))<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes, this is yet another issue. I believe it&#39;s also the same in Dutch - <br/>
&#39;stad&#39; refers to both a town and city - although there is the rather <br/>
contrived term &#39;Grootstad&#39;. In contrast, the term &#39;town&#39; and &#39;city&#39; has a <br/>
distinctly separate meaning in the UK.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;I cannot understand why it should be so difficult to prove if a city has <br/>
&gt;that big population or not. Hammerfest municipality today has about 9200 <br/>
&gt;persons which makes it not that far away.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>I know you need to draw boundaries somewhere (;-)), but municipalities <br/>
often incorporate areas that aren&#39;t really part of the town. I don&#39;t know <br/>
if it&#39;s the case in Hammerfest, but Norwegian municipalities often include <br/>
surrounding communities and outlying areas which strictly speaking aren&#39;t <br/>
part of the main settlement.<br/>
<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt;According to my Webster a town is &quot;a village with a regular market place&quot;, <br/>
&gt;and a city is &quot;an important town&quot;.<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>That definition of a village is quite dubious ;-)<br/>
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Regards,<br/>
<br/>
Kevin Meynell</div>