Inner city and Suburbs

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Inner city noun - The older and more populated and (usually) poorer central section of a city.

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Suburbs is an antonym for inner city.

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Inner city is an antonym for suburbs.

The traditional areas are as follows: the inner city, the inner west, the outer west, the inner east, the outer east, the garden suburbs, and the south.

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