negara kota

== Indonesian == === Etymology === Compound of negara (“state”) +‎ kota (“city”), calque of Dutch stadstaat (“city state”). === Noun === negara kota (plural negara-negara kota) (government) city state, a sovereign city, as in Ancient Greece, often part of a league of such cities === Further reading === “negara kota”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016