what people know as the word 'city' changes as you cross languages, some languages don't have a different word for town and city, and their definitions vary. So yes as to what we consider a city, it would be a city. Then in some languages like Spanish town or 'pueblo' can mean 'people' (like we would say our people, a people) I've had many discussions about what people consider a city with people from many different countries, and it all changes. some places would only consider their capital as a city and the rest are towns for example.
it's quite interesting actually
