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  2. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Town – a settlement or village that has grown into an urbanized area and historically features a central market or court, particularly as a regional market town. City – any consolidated urbanized area, historically often with a walled urban core, and in larger urban or metropolitan areas the downtown area.

  3. Rural area - Wikipedia

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    Rural areas in Pakistan that are near cities are considered as suburban areas or suburbs. The remote rural villagers of Pakistan commonly live in houses made of bricks, clay or mud. Socioeconomic status among rural Pakistani villagers is often based upon the ownership of agricultural land, which also may provide social prestige in village ...

  4. Suburbs and localities (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    The term locality is used in rural areas, while the term suburb is used in urban areas. [1] Australian postcodes closely align with the boundaries of localities and suburbs. [2] This Australian usage of the term "suburb" differs from common American and British usage of suburb (municipality outside of a big city).

  5. Administrative divisions of India - Wikipedia

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    The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi-speaking states but to talukas of ...

  6. Suburb - Wikipedia

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    The terms inner suburb and outer suburb are used to differentiate between the higher-density areas in proximity to the city center (which would not be referred to as 'suburbs' in most other countries), and the lower-density suburbs on the outskirts of the urban area. The term 'middle suburbs' is also used.

  7. Administrative divisions of China - Wikipedia

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    The area comprising its urban city districts and suburb city districts. The difference between the urban district and the suburb districts is that an urban district comprises only the subdistricts, while a suburb district also has towns and townships to govern rural areas.

  8. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    Suburbanization (American English), also spelled suburbanisation (British English), is a population shift from historic core cities or rural areas into suburbs. Most suburbs are built in a formation of (sub)urban sprawl. [1] As a consequence of the movement of households and businesses away from city centers, low-density, peripheral urban areas ...

  9. Borough - Wikipedia

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    Boroughs proliferated in the suburban areas of the larger cities: By the 1980s there were 19 boroughs and three cities in the area that is now the City of Auckland. In the 1980s, some boroughs and cities began to be merged with their surrounding counties to form districts with a mixed urban and rural population