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  2. 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.

  3. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Thus, some cathedral cities in England (e.g., Ely, Cambridgeshire) have a much smaller populations than some towns (e.g., Luton). In some parts of the United States, the distinction between town and city is a matter of a decision by local government to incorporate.

  4. Urban area - Wikipedia

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    Urban areas originate through urbanization, and researchers categorize them as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism , the term "urban area" contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets ; in urban sociology or urban anthropology , it often contrasts with natural environment .

  5. Township - Wikipedia

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    In Canada, a municipality is a city, town, township, county, or regional municipality which has been incorporated by statute by the legislatures of the provinces and territories. In Western Canada , townships exist only for the purpose of land division by the Dominion Land Survey and do not form administrative units.

  6. Suburbs and localities (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    Bounded localities include towns, villages, populated places, local government towns and unpopulated town sites, while unbounded localities include place names, road corners and bends, corners, meteorological stations, ocean place names and surfing spots. [5] Sometimes, both localities and suburbs are referred to collectively as "address ...

  7. Suburbanization - Wikipedia

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    The difference in drug mortality rates of suburban and urban spaces is sometimes fueled by the relationship between the general public, medical practitioners, and the pharmaceutical industry. These affluent individuals who are living in the suburbs often have increased means of obtaining otherwise expensive and potent drugs, such as opioids and ...

  8. Town - Wikipedia

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    The distinction between a town and a city similarly depends on the approach: a city may strictly be an administrative entity which has been granted that designation by law, but in informal usage, the term is also used to denote an urban locality of a particular size or importance: whereas a medieval city may have possessed as few as 10,000 ...

  9. Borough (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Town center of West Chester, a borough in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania's state laws that govern classes of municipalities, the term "borough" is used the way other states sometimes use the words "town" or "village." A borough is a self-governing entity that is generally smaller than a city.