principal city
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An ardent Japanese nationalist, Takaichi was born in Nara, a prefecture famous for the sacred deer that draw thousands of tourists to its principal city each year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2025
Even so, I would have guessed neighborhood safety might be a greater concern in metro areas where the principal city has significantly higher violent-crime rates than Seattle.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
Eight of the top 10 have home values higher than in their nearby principal city, and in seven of those markets, the typical home value is more than $150,000.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 21, 2022
"The domain of the street itself, the public right of way, it's a multidepartmental domain," notes Craig Weber, principal city planner at the Department of City Planning.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2019
Vancouver, the principal city of the main-land, is slightly smaller than Victoria, but did not begin to displace the forest until 1886.
From On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada by Julian Ralph
