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Crystal City| City in Jefferson County, southeastern Missouri, USA, 48 km/30 mi south of St Louis and immediately southeast of Festus, on the Mississippi River; population (1990) 4,100. On the site of silica deposits exploited from the 1870s, it was incorporated in 1911 and is a noted producer of plate glass. |
Crystal City| City in southern Texas, USA, 153 km/95 mi southwest of San Antonio; seat of Zavala County; population (2000) 7,200. A centre for processing, packing, and shipping vegetables, especially spinach, it calls itself the ‘Spinach Capital of the World’. |
| In Texas's Winter Garden area, Crystal City took its name from its clear springs. |
| A statue of a spinach-eating Popeye (1937) is in the town square. |
Crystal City| Office and hotel complex in Arlington County, northeastern Virginia, USA, just to the west of Washington National Airport, and just south of the Pentagon. |
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