Queen City

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Queen City

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  1. A small city in Schuyler County, Missouri, United States.
  2. A small city in Cass County, Texas, United States.
  3. 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[…]
  4. Bangor, Maine.
  5. Buffalo, New York, so-called as it was once the largest city along the Great Lakes.
  6. Charlotte, North Carolina, named for British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
  7. Cincinnati, Ohio.
  8. Clarksville, Tennessee.
  9. Cumberland, Maryland, historically, for being at one time the second largest city in Maryland.
  10. Denver, Colorado, often referred to as the "Queen City of the Plains".
  11. Dickinson, North Dakota
  12. Allentown, Pennsylvania.
  13. Manchester, New Hampshire, referred to as the “Queen City” due to it being larger than than New Hampshire’s capital, Concord.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Seattle, Washington, so-named in 1869 by real estate developers who heralded it as "the Future Queen City of the Pacific".
  17. Springfield, Missouri.
  18. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  19. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, named after Queen Victoria who was the British monarch at the time of the settlement's founding (1843).
  20. 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}
}