Queen City
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Queen City
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- A small city in Schuyler County, Missouri, United States.
- A small city in Cass County, Texas, United States.
- A former city in Adams County, Iowa, United States. This Community is located in the central part of Adams County, but in the south-west part of the State of Iowa, and its post office address is Queen City, Adams County, Iowa. It was established in that place thirteen years ago[…]
- Bangor, Maine.
- Buffalo, New York, so-called as it was once the largest city along the Great Lakes.
- Charlotte, North Carolina, named for British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
- Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Clarksville, Tennessee.
- Cumberland, Maryland, historically, for being at one time the second largest city in Maryland.
- Denver, Colorado, often referred to as the "Queen City of the Plains".
- Dickinson, North Dakota
- Allentown, Pennsylvania.
- Manchester, New Hampshire, referred to as the “Queen City” due to it being larger than than New Hampshire’s capital, Concord.
- Meridian, Mississippi, so-named either because it was an important stop on the Queen and Crescent rail line (itself deriving from Cincinnati's designation as Queen City) or because a "gypsy queen" Kelly Mithcell is buried there.
- Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, as regina is Latin for "queen"; the city was renamed (from Wascana) in honour of Queen Victoria, who was the British monarch at the time.
- Seattle, Washington, so-named in 1869 by real estate developers who heralded it as "the Future Queen City of the Pacific".
- Springfield, Missouri.
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, named after Queen Victoria who was the British monarch at the time of the settlement's founding (1843).
- Burlington, Vermont.
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@misc{queen_city_2026,
title = {Queen City},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/queen%20city},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}