The City of London is home to over 11,000 people.

Wait what, 11 THOUSAND?

That's right: but the City of London is a different place from the city NAMED London.
Despite these confusingly close names the two Londons have separate city halls and elect separate mayors, who collect separate taxes to fund separate police who enforce separate laws.
To top it off the City of London gets to act more like one of the countries in the UK than just an oddly located city -- for uniquely the corporation that runs the city of London is older than the United Kingdom by several hundred years.
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