Talk:Vale (city)/@comment-26071607-20150506200431/@comment-31.205.73.138-20150508044015

Perhaps used interchangeably - SaM did his size analysis, which indicates its a mega region, as it is referred to as a city, not a country. It could be they are used interchangeably - since each polity may have developed around one large city, the whole nation ends up getting named after it. Or 'city' could mean a sort of city state in the sense that anything outside of Vale isn't part of the 'city', regardless of how heavily built up it is - there could be massive undeveloped regions for example.