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  PR> From: tdarcos@access1.digex.net (Paul Robinson)

  PR> Frank Young (tipcat@wam.umd.edu) wrote: : In article Esther Lumsdon
  PR> wrote: : >John Kennedy wrote: : >: In article Keith F. Lynch) writes:
  PR> : >: >In article Peter Kronenberg wrote: : >: You are right.  In
  PR> Virginia, no city is in any county it's either/or. : >: If you are a
  PR> city, you may be surrounded by a county, but you are not : >: in its
  PR> jurisdiction. : >: Virginia may be the only state in the union where
  PR> cities have this : >: distinction.
  PR> 
  PR> : Two other states have similar political jurisdictions. One is
  PR> Maryland, : because Baltimore City [legal name] is a part of no
  PR> county. The third : state with independent cities escapes my memory
  PR> now. Perhaps someone else : can fill it in.
  PR> 
  PR> Carson City, Nevada.

A close look at the map suggests to me that this is not correct.  The county
that includes Carson City seems to also include some area that is /not/ Carson
City.

Even if the two had the exact same outline, it wouldn't fit the description
we're looking for, which is cities that stand at the /same level/ in terms of
relationship to the state government as counties.  New York counties can be
co-located with a city, but the county has one set of rights and the city has a
different set.  "New York City" was, until five burroughs joined, just Kings
County, the island of Manhattan and some nearby real estate.  But according to
New York law, counties contained cities.