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  2. 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.

  3. Hameau de la Reine - Wikipedia

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    Hameau de la Reine. The Hameau de la Reine (French pronunciation: [amo də la ʁɛn], The Queen's Hamlet) is a rustic retreat in the park of the Château de Versailles built for Marie Antoinette in 1783 near the Petit Trianon in Yvelines, France. It served as a private meeting place for the queen and her closest friends and as a place of leisure.

  4. Village (United States) - Wikipedia

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    Village (United States) A Shaker village's main street in Massachusetts. In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a " village " is a type of administrative division at the local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the ...

  5. Hamlet (place) - Wikipedia

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    Hamlet (place) A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. [1][2] This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined for official or administrative purposes.

  6. East Rochester, New York - Wikipedia

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    East Rochester is a coterminous town and village located southeast of the city of Rochester in Monroe County, New York, United States.The town and village, home to 6,334 people at the time of the 2020 United States census, is bordered by Pittsford on the west side, by Perinton to the east, and by Penfield to the north.

  7. Fugging, Upper Austria - Wikipedia

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    Fugging (German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] ⓘ), spelled Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. It is 33 km (21 mi) north of Salzburg and 4 km (2.5 mi) east of the Inn river, which forms part of the German border. Despite a population of only 106 in 2020, the ...

  8. Maldives - Wikipedia

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    The Maldives is the smallest country in Asia. Including the sea, the territory spans roughly 90,000 square kilometres (35,000 sq mi), with a land area of 298 square kilometres (115 sq mi). The Maldives is one of the world's most geographically dispersed sovereign states, and the smallest Muslim country by land area.

  9. Skid Row, Los Angeles - Wikipedia

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    0.431 sq mi (1.12 km 2) ZIP Code. 90013. Area code. 213. Skid Row is a neighborhood in Downtown Los Angeles. [ 1 ] The area is officially known as Central City East. [ 2 ] Skid Row contains one of the largest stable populations of homeless people in the United States, estimated at over 4,400, and has been known for its condensed homeless ...