town

settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a large village (or a large borough in some areas)
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town

Summary

town is a classification of human settlements[1]. town draws 1,236 Wikipedia views per month (classification_of_human_settlements category, ranking #4 of 13).[2]

Key Facts

  • town's image is recorded as Панорама Кременецьких гір в районі Крем'янця.jpg[3].
  • town's instance of is recorded as classification of human settlements[4].
  • town's GND ID is recorded as 4031110-7[5].
  • town's subclass of is recorded as urban settlement[6].
  • town's subclass of is recorded as city or town[7].
  • town's part of is recorded as country[8].
  • town's Commons category is recorded as Towns[9].
  • town's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Fabricio Cardenas (Culex)-bourgade.wav[10].
  • town's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q1321 (spa)-Rodelar-villa.wav[11].
  • town's said to be the same as is recorded as miasteczko[12].
  • town's said to be the same as is recorded as urban-type settlement[13].
  • town's said to be the same as is recorded as městys[14].
  • town's said to be the same as is recorded as povoado[15].
  • town's said to be the same as is recorded as small city[16].
  • town's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dx1j[17].
  • town's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph122589[18].
  • town's HDS ID is recorded as 007870[19].
  • town's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Towns[20].
  • town's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Town[21].
  • town's described at URL is recorded as http://mappings.dbpedia.org/index.php/OntologyClass:Town[22].
  • town's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300008375[23].
  • town's PSH ID is recorded as 265[24].
  • town's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as place=town[25].
  • town's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0150705[26].
  • town's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for town include Los Palacios y Villafranca[28], a municipality of Spain[29], in Spain[30], founded in 1836[31] and Town-class light cruiser[32], a ship class[33], founded in 1910[34].

Why It Matters

town draws 1,236 Wikipedia views per month (classification_of_human_settlements category, ranking #4 of 13).[2] town has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] town is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

Entities named for town include Los Palacios y Villafranca[28], a municipality of Spain[29], in Spain[30], founded in 1836[31] and Town-class light cruiser[32], a ship class[33], founded in 1910[34].

References

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

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . 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. [32] . 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. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [34] . 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. [35] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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