Usually means: Nickname for a city's prominence.
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  6. Queen City: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Queen City)

noun:  A small city in Schuyler County, Missouri, United States.
noun:  A small city in Cass County, Texas, United States.
noun:  A former city in Adams County, Iowa, United States.
noun:  A nickname for various cities and towns, including:
noun:  Bangor, Maine.
noun:  Buffalo, New York, so-called as it was once the largest city along the Great Lakes.
noun:  Charlotte, North Carolina, named for British queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
noun:  Cincinnati, Ohio.
noun:  Clarksville, Tennessee.
noun:  Cumberland, Maryland, historically, for being at one time the second largest city in Maryland.
noun:  Denver, Colorado, often referred to as the "Queen City of the Plains".
noun:  Dickinson, North Dakota
noun:  Allentown, Pennsylvania.
noun:  Manchester, New Hampshire, referred to as the “Queen City” due to it being larger than than New Hampshire’s capital, Concord.
noun:  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.
noun:  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.
noun:  Seattle, Washington, so-named in 1869 by real estate developers who heralded it as "the Future Queen City of the Pacific".
noun:  Springfield, Missouri.
noun:  Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
noun:  Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, named after Queen Victoria who was the British monarch at the time of the settlement's founding (1843).
noun:  Burlington, Vermont.

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