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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.
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 ...
In England, the word hamlet (having the French origin given at the top of this article) means (in current usage) simply a small settlement, maybe of a few houses or farms, smaller than a village. However, traditionally and legally, it means a village or a town without a church, [ 27 ] although hamlets are recognised as part of land use planning ...
A rural settlement in Pahang, Malaysia. The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. In some others, rural settlements traditionally do not ...
Memramcook is the largest village in New Brunswick with a population of 4,831 Casselman is the largest village in Ontario with a population of 3,626 [1]. A village is a type of incorporated municipality within the majority of the provinces and territories of Canada.
According to the 2019 report by the Ministry of Home Affairs, there are 8,488 urban villages and 74,953 rural villages in Indonesia. [1] North Aceh Regency contained the highest number of rural villages (852) amongst all of the regencies of Indonesia, followed by Pidie Regency with 730 rural villages and Bireuen Regency with 609 rural villages.
The vill remained the basic rural unit after the Norman conquest—land units in the Domesday Book are frequently referred to as vills [6] —and into the late medieval era. Whereas the manor was a unit of landholding, the vill was a territorial one—most vills did not tally physically with manor boundaries [ 7 ] —and a public part of the ...
villagers harvesting seaweed - farming is often associated with rurality. Rurality is used as an expression of different rural areas as not being homogeneously defined. [clarification needed] Many authors involved in mental health research in rural areas stress the importance of steering clear of inflexible blanket definitions of rurality (Philo, Parr & Burns 2003), and to instead "select ...