City of Coruscant

The City of Coruscant was a locality and unique administrative unit that existed within on, consisting of approximately two square kilometers of territory inside what by the waning years of the  had become the. The City of Coruscant represented the area that had been the earliest settlement founded by s on the planet well before the creation of the planet-wide urban metropolis around one hundred thousand years before the. No documents from its original founding existed, so the exact date of the City's formation remained unknown, but making it predate not only the Republic but the  as well. Since then, the City had maintained a unique self-governing status and had become 's financial and business center.

To differentiate it from the central districts of Coruscant known as Galactic City (and later Imperial City), the locality was referred to as the "City of Coruscant." Due to its importance it was often referred to simply as the City. Politically independent from the municipal government of Galactic City, which completely surrounds it, the City was led by the "Lord Mayor of the City of Coruscant" and was the only urban locality in the history of the Republic to be represented by its own in the.

The City of Coruscant has been the galaxy's financial and business center since at least 19,000 BBY, being home to the headquarters of the and as well as a dozen of the largest galactic banks, branch offices of hundreds of other major banks, along with various other corporations.