A report on Human settlement and Urban area

The small town of Flora, Oregon in the United States is unincorporated, but is considered a populated place.

Greater Tokyo Area, Japan, the world's most populated urban area, with about 38 million inhabitants

A field landscape of the rural Pajuniemi village in Sastamala, Pirkanmaa, Finland.

Greater Melbourne, Australia at night, seen from the International Space Station

Taos Pueblo, an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos-speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people. It is approximately 1000 years old and lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico.

Some settlement sites may go out of use. This location in Estonia was used for human settlement in 2nd half of first millennium and it is considered an archaeological record, that may provide information on how people lived back then.

Urban areas with at least one million inhabitants in 2006

Urban structure of Sortavala, a town in Republic of Karelia, Russia

Abandoned buildings in Kolmanskop, Namibia

A street sign indicating the beginning of an urban area in Finland. The picture was taken in Vimpeli.

São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, the largest city proper in the Southern Hemisphere, in the Americas, and the world's ninth-largest urban area by population.

Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia

Saint Petersburg, the cultural capital and the second-largest city

Yekaterinburg, the fourth-largest city in the country.

Greater São Paulo at night seen from the International Space Station

An urban area, or built-up area, is a human settlement with a high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

- Urban area

The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas.

- Human settlement

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Village

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An alpine village in the Lötschental Valley, Switzerland

A berber village in Ourika valley, High Atlas, Morocco

The old village of Hollókő, Nógrád, Hungary (UNESCO World Heritage Site)

Mollösund, an example of a common village in Sweden and the Nordics.

A typical rural peasant Indian village in Rajasthan, India

A village in Pakistani Kashmir's Neelum Valley "Dosut"

A typical small village in Hainan, China

Kovachevitsa, a village in southern Bulgaria

Saint-Cirq-Lapopie in Lot is one of "The Most Beautiful Villages in France".

The village of Collina, part of the Forni Avoltri municipality, in Friuli, Italy

The main street of the village of Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England

Bisley, Gloucestershire, a village in the Cotswolds

The village of Burrawang in New South Wales, Australia

Oracle, Arizona is an unincorporated rural town often called a village in local media

A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

Most rural areas in Pakistan tend to be near cities, and are peri-urban areas, This is due to the definition of a rural area in Pakistan being an area that does not come within an urban boundary.

City

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Downtown Pittsburgh sits at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, which become the Ohio.

Kluuvi, a city centre of Helsinki, Finland

The L'Enfant Plan for Washington, D.C., inspired by the design of Versailles, combines a utilitarian grid pattern with diagonal avenues and a symbolic focus on monumental architecture.

This aerial view of the Gush Dan metropolitan area in Israel shows the geometrically planned city of Tel Aviv proper (upper left) as well as Givatayim to the east and some of Bat Yam to the south. Tel Aviv's population is 433,000; the total population of its metropolitan area is 3,785,000.

An arch from the ancient Sumerian city Ur, which flourished in the third millennium BC, can be seen at present-day Tell el-Mukayyar in Iraq

Mohenjo-daro, a city of the Indus Valley Civilization in Pakistan, which was rebuilt six or more times, using bricks of standard size, and adhering to the same grid layout—also in the third millennium BC.

This aerial view of what was once downtown Teotihuacan shows the Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid of the Moon, and the processional avenue serving as the spine of the city's street system.

Vyborg in Leningrad Oblast, Russia has existed since the 13th century

Imperial Free Cities in the Holy Roman Empire 1648

This map of Haarlem, the Netherlands, created around 1550, shows the city completely surrounded by a city wall and defensive canal, with its square shape inspired by Jerusalem.

The industrial-based city of Tampere on the shores of the Tammerkoski rapids in 1837.

Diorama of old Gyumri, Armenia with the Holy Saviour's Church (1859–1873)

Graph showing urbanization from 1950 projected to 2050.

Map showing urban areas with at least one million inhabitants in 2006.

The city council of Tehran meets in September 2015.

The city hall in George Town, Malaysia, today serves as the seat of the City Council of Penang Island.

The Dublin Fire Brigade in Dublin, Ireland, quenching a severe fire at a hardware store in 1970

The Ripon Building, the headquarters of Greater Chennai Corporation in Chennai. It is one of the oldest city governing corporations in Asia.

La Plata, Argentina, based on a perfect square with 5196-meter sides, was designed in the 1880s as the new capital of Buenos Aires Province.

Clusters of skyscrapers in Xinyi Special District – the centre of commerce and finance of Taipei City, capital of Taiwan.

Paris is one of the best-known cities in the world.

Nepalese dancers at Edmonton Heritage Festival, an example of the cultural diversity of a city.

Atomic bombing on August 6, 1945, devastated the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

Warsaw Old Town after the Warsaw Uprising, 85% of the city was deliberately destroyed.

Traffic congestion in Bandung, West Java

Gautrain stopped at the O. R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg

Transjakarta in Indonesia is the longest bus rapid transit system in the world

Baana, a shared-path rail trail in the center of Helsinki

This urban scene in Paramaribo features a few plants growing amidst solid waste and rubble behind some houses.

St Stephen's Green, an urban park in Dublin, Ireland

Stock exchanges, characteristic features of the top global cities, are interconnected hubs for capital. Here, a delegation from Australia is shown visiting the London Stock Exchange.

World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C., United States

John Martin's The Fall of Babylon (1831), depicting chaos as the Persian army occupies Babylon, also symbolizes the ruin of decadent civilization in modern times. Lightning striking the Babylonian ziggurat (also representing the Tower of Babel) indicates God's judgment against the city.

Recreation of Ancient Rome at its height. The city was the first in the world to reach one million inhabitants.

Horbury Terrace (c.1836), terrace housing in Sydney, Australia.

A city is a large human settlement.

Present-day cities usually form the core of larger metropolitan areas and urban areas—creating numerous commuters traveling towards city centres for employment, entertainment, and education.

Town

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The town of Hancock, Michigan along Quincy Street

Nearly every town in Hong Kong has its own town hall. The picture shows the Sha Tin Town Hall in the town of Sha Tin.

Satriano di Lucania, a town in the Melandro Valley, Basilicata, South Italy.

Zamość in Poland is an example of a utopian ideal town. It was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992

The town of Vyborg in Leningrad Oblast, Russia

Bishan, one of Singapore's towns is the 38th biggest in terms of geographical size and the 21st most populated planning area in the country.

View towards St Mary's Cathedral in Visby, Sweden. Visby is one of the most well-preserved former Hanseatic cities in Sweden and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today it is the seat of Gotland Municipality.

A traditional English town centre at Rugby

The tiny farming community of Wyatt, Indiana

A town is a human settlement.

For formal purposes, urban areas having at least 200 inhabitants are considered by.

Census geographic units of Canada

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The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's quinquennial census.

Statistics Canada has described the Greater Golden Horseshoe as the country's largest urban area.

A "locality" (LOC) is a historical named location or place.