Places
- Imperial City, Beijing, the central section of Beijing
- Imperial City (Huế), a walled fortress and palace in the former capital of Vietnam.
- Free imperial city, city formally responsible only to the emperor in the Holy Roman Empire,.
- Cusco, an ancient Inca city in Peru often cited as The Imperial City
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