Free city

Free city may refer to:

Historical places

Free city (antiquity) a self-governed city during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial eras
City-state, an independent sovereign city
Free imperial city, self-governed city in the Holy Roman Empire subordinate only to the emperor
- Free City of Augsburg, for over 500 years in what is now Germany
- Free City of Besançon, in what is now eastern France
- Free City of Bremen, from 1646 to 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
- Free City of Frankfurt, for almost five centuries until 1866, in what is now Germany
- Free City of Hamburg, until 1871, with the name still officially surviving, in what is now Germany
- Free City of Lübeck, from 1226 to 1937 in what is now Germany
Free City of Cracow, 1815–1846, in what is now Poland
Free City of Danzig (Napoleonic), established by Napoleon, and Free City of Danzig, created after World War I, two historical city-states that existed in what is now Gdańsk, Poland

Free City (album), a 2001 album by the St. Lunatics
Free City of Greyhawk, a fictional city-state
Free City, a fictional MMO game in the 2021 film Free Guy
The Nine Free Cities of Essos, fictional cities from the A Song of Ice and Fire book series

de:Freie Stadt, literally "free city", discusses the term in its generality
Free state (disambiguation)
Freetown (disambiguation)
Independent city, a city or town that does not form part of another general-purpose local government entity
Royal free city, in the Kingdom of Hungary
Special economic zone, an area in which the business and trade laws are different from the rest of the country
- Free economic zone, a type of special economic zone
Pact of Free Cities, 2019 pact between Prague, Bratislava, Warsaw, and Budapest