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  2. 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 ...

  3. Village - Wikipedia

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    A typical rural peasant Indian village in Rajasthan, India ... In North Carolina, the only difference between cities, towns, and villages is the term itself.

  4. Settlement hierarchy - Wikipedia

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    Village or Tribe – a village is a human settlement or community that is larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town. The population of a village varies; the average population can range in the hundreds. Anthropologists regard the number of about 150 members for tribes as the maximum for a functioning human group.

  5. Local government in India - Wikipedia

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    Local self-government means that residents in towns, villages and rural settlements are the people who elect local councils and their heads authorising them to solve the important issues. India is a federal republic with three spheres of government: union , state and local.

  6. Census town - Wikipedia

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    In India, a census town is one which is not statutorily notified and administered as a town, but nevertheless whose population has attained urban characteristics. Census towns are governed by gram panchayats, unlike statutory towns. [1] They are characterized by the following: Population exceeds 5,000

  7. List of subdistricts in India - Wikipedia

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    Most subdistricts in India correspond to an area within a district including the designated city, town, hamlet, or other populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. [2]

  8. Tehsil - Wikipedia

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    A tehsil (Hindustani pronunciation:, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka) is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan.It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns, and usually a number of villages. [1]

  9. Town - Wikipedia

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    In Denmark, in many contexts no distinction is made between "city", "town" and "village"; all three translate as by. In more specific use, for small villages and hamlets the word landsby (meaning 'country town') is used, while the Danish equivalent of English city is storby (meaning 'large town').