Queen City
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Queen City is the name or nickname of several populated places.
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[edit] Official name
It is the official place name of three places in the United States:
- Queen City, Iowa, a formerly inhabited place
- Queen City, Missouri
- Queen City, Texas
[edit] Nickname
It is the nickname for several cities:
[edit] Asia
- Manila, Philippines
[edit] North America
See also: List of city nicknames in Canada
- Allentown, Pennsylvania
- Bangor, Maine
- Beach Haven, New Jersey
- Buffalo, New York
- Burlington, Vermont
- Charlotte, North Carolina, from being named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of the United Kingdom
- Cincinnati, Ohio (once nicknamed "Queen City of the West")
- Clarksville, Tennessee
- Cumberland, Maryland (The "Queen City of the Alleghenies")
- Del Rio, Texas, "Queen City of the Rio Grand"
- Denver, Colorado (The "Queen City of the Plains")
- Dickinson, North Dakota
- Helena, Montana
- Manchester, New Hampshire
- Marquette, Michigan
- Meridian, Mississippi
- Nelson, British Columbia
- Plainfield, New Jersey
- Poughkeepsie, New York
- Regina, Saskatchewan, named after Queen Victoria
- Seattle, Washington, used Queen City as its official nickname from 1869 until 1982
- Sioux Falls, South Dakota
- Springfield, Missouri
- Staunton, Virginia
- Titusville, Pennsylvania (so named as the birthplace of the modern oil industry)
- Toronto, Ontario, see Name of Toronto#Nicknames
- Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Virginia, Minnesota
[edit] Oceania
- Auckland, New Zealand
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