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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. 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 ...

  4. 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.

  5. Town - Wikipedia

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    A town is a type of a human settlement, generally larger than a village but smaller than a city. [1]The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative status, or historical significance.

  6. Municipality - Wikipedia

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    a state , which is part of a region 5,570 A municipality usually is divided in the urban part, the city (cidade), and the rural part. List of municipalities of Brazil: Croatia: Općina: Fužine,_Croatia, Bosiljevo, Klana, Kršan: Županija (county in english) 428 A municipality usually has center village of same name.

  7. Administrative divisions of Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    When towns reach a size sufficient to make their form of government difficult to sustain, they frequently incorporate into a village or city, as the village of Fox Crossing did in 2016, or as the village of Kronenwetter did in 2002–2003. See also urban town, a proposal for semi-incorporation of more urbanized towns.

  8. List of terms for administrative divisions - Wikipedia

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    village council paróquia Portugal: parish (religious division) Cape Verde: parroquia Spain parish Andorra: pedanía Spain: county Περιφέρειες (periféreia) Greece: periphery phum Cambodia: village phumpheak Cambodia: zone pilseta Latvia: town/city povit Ukraine: county powiat Poland: county pradesh India: state of India Nepal

  9. 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.