suburb

human settlement or residential area forming part of a metropolitan area, typically located outside the city centre
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suburb

Summary

suburb is an urban unit definition[1]. suburb draws 2,303 Wikipedia views per month (urban_unit_definition category, ranking #1 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • suburb was influenced by rail transport[3].
  • suburb's instance of is recorded as urban unit definition[4].
  • suburb's based on is recorded as Suburbium[5].
  • suburb is a type of human settlement[6].
  • suburb is a type of urban area[7].
  • suburb's Commons category is recorded as Suburbs[8].
  • suburb's said to be the same as is recorded as suburban community[9].
  • suburb is the opposite of inner city[10].
  • suburb comprises inner suburb[11].
  • suburb comprises Outer suburban practice[12].
  • suburb's has cause is recorded as suburbanization[13].
  • suburb's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Suburbs[14].
  • suburb's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as United States[15].
  • suburb's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as United Kingdom[16].
  • suburb's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as Canada[17].
  • suburb's applies to jurisdiction is recorded as Australia[18].
  • suburb's facet of is recorded as suburbanization[19].
  • suburb's facet of is recorded as metropolitan area[20].
  • suburb's facet of is recorded as housing[21].
  • suburb's facet of is recorded as land use[22].
  • suburb's facet of is recorded as urban geography[23].
  • suburb's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=suburb[24].
  • suburb's described by source is recorded as Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[25].
  • suburb's has characteristic is recorded as commuter[26].
  • suburb's related Wikidata property is recorded as P1671[27].

Body

Definition and Type

suburb's instance of is recorded as urban unit definition[4]. Recorded subclass of include human settlement[6] and urban area[7]. suburb is the opposite of inner city[10].

Use and Application

Components include inner suburb[11] and Outer suburban practice[12].

Movements and Schools

suburb was influenced by rail transport[3].

Influence

Things named for suburb include Prastio (Avdimou)[28], a community of Cyprus Republic[29], in Cyprus[30] and Prastio Kellakiou[31], a community of Cyprus Republic[32], in Cyprus[33].

Why It Matters

suburb draws 2,303 Wikipedia views per month (urban_unit_definition category, ranking #1 of 6).[2] suburb has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] suburb is known by 77 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]

Entities named for suburb include Prastio (Avdimou)[28], a community of Cyprus Republic[29], in Cyprus[30] and Prastio Kellakiou[31], a community of Cyprus Republic[32], in Cyprus[33].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [3] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [34] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [35] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 2d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of human settlement, urban area
    Has characteristic commuter
    Social media followers {'amount': '+55284'}
    Facet of suburbanization, metropolitan area, housing +2
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 5582, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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