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A village is a human settlement or a residential community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town; some geographers describe villages as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants. Although villa
Bourton-on-the-Water, a village in England.
Pacentro, Italy
Strochitsy, Belarus, pictured 2008
An Alpine village in the Lötschental valley, Switzerland
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In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community of people living in a particular place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule num
Village
…A village is a human settlement or a residential community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town; some geographers describe villages as having between 500 and 2,500 inhabitants…
The small town of Flora, Oregon, US, is unincorporated, but considered a populated place.
A field landscape of the rural Pajuniemi village in Sastamala, Finland
Jakarta, a city in Indonesia, is the largest settlement in the world, with a population of 33 million in its metropolitan area.
London, a city in the United Kingdom, is a large settlement with a population of 14 million in its metropolitan area.