بلدة versus مدينة
While writing a basic text in Arabic today, I wanted to talk about my town/city. At first, I picked مدينة; then I thought it might be clearer to say مدينة صغيرة; and then, based on dictionary definitions, I realised a مدينة صغيرة might actually be synonymous to بلدة. And then I started wondering – where exactly do I draw a line? Is it subjective, or is it up to variations depending on where the Arabic speaker hails from (similarly to how the definitions of ‘town’ and ‘city’ may vary across English-speaking countries)?

Incidentally, in case it helps at all, the population is 29,884, and the municipality has a total area of 595.811 km² (230.044 mi²).

Question

بلدة versus مدينة
While writing a basic text in Arabic today, I wanted to talk about my town/city. At first, I picked مدينة; then I thought it might be clearer to say مدينة صغيرة; and then, based on dictionary definitions, I realised a مدينة صغيرة might actually be synonymous to بلدة. And then I started wondering – where exactly do I draw a line? Is it subjective, or is it up to variations depending on where the Arabic speaker hails from (similarly to how the definitions of ‘town’ and ‘city’ may vary across English-speaking countries)?

Incidentally, in case it helps at all, the population is 29,884, and the municipality has a total area of 595.811 km² (230.044 mi²).

Answer

we say city  " مدينه "  kind of on big city like Capital of city and you also can use it when you want to say a small city , it's correct . 
بلده   it's a little bit smaller you can use it to describe a small town like a village, something like that 
in your case the best choose is  مدينة صغيرة

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بلدة  it is mean village, مدينة  mean city

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