On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Jorge Llambías wrote:
And conversely, some cities might be in more than one country, although such border-cities usually have different names on each side (Mexicali-Calexico is one with an interesting name). Berlin went from being in one country to being in two and then being in one country again.
Are you sure? I always understood Mexicali and Calexico to have separate governance. Sure, they probably cooperate very closely, but I can't imagine Calexico (in the U.S.) wanting to have anything to do with being the capital of Baja California (which Mexicali is).
As for Berlin, I thought that was split into East and West Berlin, and of course they had completely separate inimical governance.
But I'm still willing to admit the possibility that a city does not have to belong to one and only one state by definition. The Merriam- Webster definition of "city" seems to imply that a city is just a large inhabited place, and makes no mention of whose jurisdiction that city falls under.
So the heck with it: lo'e tcadu ku cmima lo gugde.