United States
There are 42 independent cities in the United States, with 39 of these in Virginia (in Virginia, cities are separate from counties even if they function as county seats). The three others are Baltimore, Maryland; St. Louis, Missouri; and Carson City, Nevada.
While resembling an independent city, New York City is a unique case, with the city divided into five boroughs, each of which is territorially conterminous with a county of New York State.
Another type of locality is known as a consolidated city–county. In a consolidated city-county, as in an independent city, there is one single local government. But in a consolidated city-county, the city and the county nominally both exist, although they are the same entity (the City of Denver, Colorado and Denver County; the City of San Francisco, California and San Francisco County; the City of Butte, Montana and Silver Bow County), whereas in an independent city, the county does not even nominally exist (Falls Church, Virginia, Carson City, Nevada).
Washington, D.C. is coterminous with the District of Columbia, which is not a part of any state. It cannot be considered "independent" because it is under Congressional oversight as the U.S. national capital.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1816–1902)
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