A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city.
Mõisaküla is a small town in the southern part of Estonia, just next to the border of Latvia. The town's current population is less than 1,000 inhabitants.
Aerial view of Mariehamn, the town in Åland with over 10,000 inhabitants
The city of Hancock, Michigan along Quincy Street
The town of Peshtera, Bulgaria
A human settlement or locality is a place where people live and carry out social, economic, political, and cultural activities. The term encompasses a broad range of inhabited environments, including
Tell es-Sultan, located in the Jordan Valley near modern Jericho, is recognized as the world's oldest fortified city, with origins dating back to the 9th–8th millennium BC.
The first city to have exceeded 1,000,000 residents is thought to have been Baghdad by about 775 ce.
Pazhou West Area, Guangzhou, China is part of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen urban area. Guangzhou-Shenzhen is the most populous urban area in the world, with 69,562,000 residents as of 2025.
Urban sprawl in São Paulo, Brazil