The City may refer to:

Places

city centre A city centre, also known as an urban core, is the Commerce, commercial, Culture, cultural and often the historical, Politics, political, and geographic heart of a city. The term "city centre" is primarily used in British English, and closely e ...

in general

United States

New York City New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive w ...

, New York **

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

, one of the five boroughs of New York City * the

City of Chicago Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of Unite ...

, Illinois, particularly as distinct from the various suburban municipalities and communities surrounding it, making-up the rest of the "Chicagoland" metropolitan region and outlying hinterlands *

San Francisco San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

, California * The City Shopping Center, a former name of The Outlets at Orange in Orange, California * The City, a brand used from 2008 to 2009 at several prototype locations of former American consumer electronics retailer

Circuit City Circuit City Corporation, Inc., formerly Circuit City Stores, Inc., is an American consumer electronics retail company, which was founded in 1949 by Samuel Wurtzel as the Wards Company, operated stores across the United States, and pioneered th ...

United Kingdom

*"The City", a term for the

City of London The City of London, also known as ''the City'', is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county and Districts of England, local government district with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in England. It is the Old town, his ...

, the historic core of London; also used to refer to the British financial services sector * The City, Buckinghamshire, a village and civil parish

Turkey

Istanbul Istanbul is the List of largest cities and towns in Turkey, largest city in Turkey, constituting the country's economic, cultural, and historical heart. With Demographics of Istanbul, a population over , it is home to 18% of the Demographics ...

(formerly Constantinople) has been known as “the city” in the past, the name being derived from the words “in The City”

Fictional cities

* The City (''The Tick''), the fictional setting of ''The Tick'' comic books and TV series * The City (''Transmetropolitan''), a fictional megacity in the Vertigo comic ''

Transmetropolitan ''Transmetropolitan'' is a cyberpunk transhumanist comic book series written by Warren Ellis and drawn by Darick Robertson; it was published by the American company DC Comics in 1997–2002. The series was originally part of the short-lived DC C ...

'' * "The City", the setting of the ''Thief'' video game series

Books and websites

* ''The City'' (website), a New York City based non-profit, digital news site founded in 2018 * ''The City'' (Park and Burgess book), a 1925 book by Robert E. Park and Ernest W. Burgess *

The City (Pidmohylny novel) ''The City'' () is an urban novel by Ukrainian writer Valerian Pidmohylny, published in 1928. Its first English translation is forthcoming. Pidmohylny created the modern novel, which is focused on urban problems and touches upon philosophical ...

, a 1928 novel by Valerian Pidmohylny * "The City" (poem), an 1894 poem by Constantine P. Cavafy * "The City" (short story), a 1951 short story by Ray Bradbury * ''The City'' (Weber book), a 1921 book by Max Weber * ''The City'' (wordless novel), a 1925 wordless novel by Frans Masereel *''The City'', a 1909 play by Clyde Fitch *''The City'', a 1990–2014 comic strip by

Derf Backderf John Backderf (born October 31, 1959), also known as Derf or Derf Backderf, is an American cartoonist. He is most famous for his graphic novels, especially '' My Friend Dahmer'', the international bestseller which won an Angoulême Prize, and ea ...

* ''The City'' (Koontz novel), a 2014 novel by Dean Koontz *''The City'', a 1993 graphic novel by

James Herbert James John Herbert, OBE (8 April 1943 – 20 March 2013) was an English horror writer. A full-time writer, he also designed his own book covers and publicity. His books have sold 54 million copies worldwide, and have been translated into 34 la ...

* ''The City'' (magazine), an American magazine of evangelical Christianity * ''The City'', a 1965 play by

Loula Anagnostaki Loula Anagnostaki (13 December 1928 – 8 October 2017) was a Greek writer. Her surname also appears as Anagnostakē. Biography She was born in Thessaloniki. She was the sister of poet Manolis Anagnostakis. She earned a law degree from Aristotle ...

Film, television

Film

* ''The City'' (1916 film), a 1916 film * ''The City'' (1926 film), a lost 1926 silent film * ''The City'' (1939 film), an American documentary by Steiner and Van Dyke * ''The City'' (1977 film), a pilot for an unproduced American crime drama TV series * ''The City'' (1982 film), a Taiwanese film written by Wu Nien-jen * ''The City'' (1994 film), a Malayalam action film * ''The City'' (1998 film), an American neo-realist film by David Riker

Television

* ''The City'' (1995 TV series), an American soap opera, 1995–1997 * ''The City'' (1999 TV series), a Canadian prime time soap opera * ''The City'' (2008 TV series), an American reality television series, 2008–2010

Music

* The City (band), a 1980s alternative rock band * The City (group), a music trio composed of Carole King, Danny Kortchmar, and Charles Larkey * The City (XM), an Urban Top 40 radio channel *"The City", the setting of Greenday's 2004 concept album '' American Idiot''

Albums

* ''The City'' (Vangelis album), 1990 * ''The City'' (FemBots album), 2005 * ''The City'' (EP), a 2012 EP by Madeon, or its title song

Songs

* "The City" (song), a 2012 song by The 1975 *"The City", a 1999 song by The Dismemberment Plan from '' Emergency & I'' *"The City", a 2011 song by The Chariot from '' Long Live'' *"The City", a 2011 song by Ed Sheeran from '' +'' *"The City", a 2011 song by Game from ''

The R.E.D. Album ''The R.E.D. Album'' is the fourth studio album by American rapper The Game (rapper), Game. It was released on August 23, 2011, by DGC Records and Interscope Records, which serves as Game's first release under DGC and his first album for Intersc ...

'' *"The City", a 2011 song by The Haunted from '' Unseen'' *"The City", a 2011 song by Patrick Wolf from ''

Lupercalia Lupercalia, also known as Lupercal, was a pastoral festival of Ancient Rome observed annually on February 15 to purify the city, promoting health and fertility. Lupercalia was also known as ''dies Februatus'', after the purification instruments ...

Visual arts

* ''The City'' (Léger), a 1919 painting