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municipality (amalgamated urban areas without town rights) NUTS Europe: Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics obec Czech Republic: municipality Slovakia: область : Countries formerly in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia: province, region община Bulgaria: municipality okres Czech Republic: district Slovakia: okrug
An area having some characteristic or characteristics that distinguish it from other areas; a territory that is of interest to people, for which one or more distinctive traits (e.g. climate, economy, history, etc.) define its identity. [5] regionalism 1.
dooryard – area around the main entry door of a house, specifically a farmhouse. Typically including the driveway and parking area proximal to the house; Italian (sandwich) – (Maine) submarine sandwich; logan (also pokelogan) – a shallow, swampy lake or pond (from Algonquian) muckle – to grasp, hold-fast, or tear into
A naturally emergent landscape form that eases communication between areas. [2] acme See summit. acre (ac) A unit of area traditionally defined as the area of a plot of land one chain (66 feet) by one furlong (660 feet), equivalent to 43,560 square feet (0.001563 sq mi; 4,047 m 2), or about 0.40 hectare. active volcano
Semi-enclaves and semi-exclaves are areas that, except for possessing an unsurrounded sea border, would otherwise be enclaves or exclaves. [4]: 116 [5]: 12–14 Semi-enclaves can exist as independent states that border only one other state, such as Monaco, the Gambia and Brunei.
Infrastructure is the set of facilities and systems that serve a country, city, or other area, [1] and encompasses the services and facilities necessary for its economy, households and firms to function. [2]
As a way of describing spatial areas, the concept of regions is important and widely used among the many branches of geography, each of which can describe areas in regional terms. For example, ecoregion is a term used in environmental geography , cultural region in cultural geography , bioregion in biogeography , and so on.
Archaeological studies of social communities use the term "community" in two ways, mirroring usage in other areas. The first meaning is an informal definition of community as a place where people used to live.