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  2. Rural area - Wikipedia

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    A rural village in Rajasthan, India. In India a village tends to mean a small rural area, including both a settlement and its surrounding agricultural land, rather than just the settlement itself, the typical meaning elsewhere. There are said to be up to 500,000 villages in India.

  3. Rural areas in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consist of approximately 97% of the United States' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as to what constitutes ...

  4. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    In Alaska, "village" is a colloquial term used to refer to small communities, which are mostly located in the rural areas of the state, often unconnected to the contiguous North American road system. Many of these communities are populated predominantly by Alaska Natives and are federally recognized as villages under the Indian Reorganization ...

  5. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    The Government planning statement does not specifically mention "settlement hierarchies", but talks about the availability of services to small rural settlements. The term is used a number of times in the guidance for preparing evidence for planning decisions; a settlement hierarchy starts with an isolated dwelling, then hamlet, then village ...

  6. Why does Wisconsin have towns, villages and cities — some ...

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    Blame it on the founding fathers. And possibly a little neighborly competitiveness. The maps of the Milwaukee area and the rest of Wisconsin are covered in towns, villages and cities — some of ...

  7. Village - Wikipedia

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    A village is locally known by the Malay word kampung (also spelt as kampong). [18] [19] They may be villages in the traditional or anthropological sense but may also comprise delineated residential settlements, both rural and urban. The community of a village is headed by a village head (Malay: ketua kampung).

  8. List of the most common U.S. place names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1]

  9. Rural American history - Wikipedia

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    The rural population is defined by size of place under 2500 and includes non-farmers living in villages and the open countryside. At the first census in 1790, the rural population was 3.7 million and urban only 202,000.