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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. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    A village is usually, but not always, within a single town. A village may be coterminous with, and have a consolidated government with, a town. A village is a clearly defined municipality that provides the services closest to the residents, such as garbage collection, street and highway maintenance, street lighting and building codes.

  4. Administrative divisions of Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Not all municipalities levy income taxes; those that do range from 0.3% in the Village of Indian Hill to 3.0% in Parma Heights. Municipality names are not unique: there is a village of Centerville and a city of Centerville; also a city of Oakwood and two similarly named villages: Oakwood, Cuyahoga County, Ohio and Oakwood, Paulding County, Ohio.

  5. Category:Municipalities in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Designations for municipalities vary among states, and can include: city, town, village, borough, plantation, or hamlet. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.

  6. Human settlement - Wikipedia

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    In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, a settlement is "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work". [1] The Global Human Settlement Layer framework produces global spatial information about the human presence on the planet over time. This in the form of built up maps, population density maps ...

  7. Town - Wikipedia

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    Because of this, in the Netherlands, no distinction is made between city and town; both translate as stad. A hamlet (gehucht) usually has fewer than 1,000 inhabitants, a village (dorp) ranges from 1,000 up to 25,000 inhabitants, and a place above 25,000 can call itself either village or city, mostly depending on historic reasons or size of the ...

  8. Village - Wikipedia

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    The most intensive is the migration "citycity". Approximately 46% of all migrated people have changed their residence from one city to another. The share of the migration processes "villagecity" is significantly less – 23% and "cityvillage" – 20%. The migration "villagevillage" in 2002 is 11%. [23] It also stated that

  9. Administrative divisions of New York (state) - Wikipedia

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    Village residents pay both town and village taxes, and vote in town and village elections. [54] Those services not provided by the village are provided by the town or towns containing the village. [ citation needed ] As of the 2000 [update] census, 9.9% of the state's population was living in one of the 556 villages in New York.