village
small clustered human settlement smaller than a town
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Summary
village is a classification of human settlements[1]. village draws 6,428 Wikipedia views per month (classification of human settlements category, ranking #3 of 13).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: rural settlement[3]
- Part of: rural area[4]
- Commons category: Villages[5]
- Said to be the same as: kelurahan[6], nagari[7], kampung of Lampung Province[8], gampong[9], lembang[10], pekon[11]
- SRGB color hex triplet: 708090[12]
- Topic's main category: Category:Villages[13]
- Facet of: ekistics[14]
- OpenStreetMap tag: place=village[15]
- Described by source: Nordisk familjebok[16], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[17], Otto's encyclopedia[18], Gujin Tushu Jicheng[19], Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[20], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23], Kartographer icon[24]
- Partially coincident with: administrative territorial entity[25]
- Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Village[26], http://kbpedia.org/kko/rc/Village[27]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C48958[28]
- Different from: village in the United States[29], hamlet[30], village of New York[31], kampung of Papua[32], village of Turkey[33], village of Turkmenistan[34]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q21200633[35]
- Next lower rank: hamlet[36]
- Next higher rank: parish[37], large village[38]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[39]
- Model item: Shirakawa[40], Pariangan[41], Kovachevitsa[42], Reine[43], Umoja[44], Tenganan[45]
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Influence
Things named for village include Võ Cạnh inscription[46], a stele[47], in Vietnam[48] and Kalo Chorio, Limassol[49], a community of Cyprus Republic[50], in Cyprus[51].
Why It Matters
village has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[52] village is known by 59 alternative names across languages and contexts.[53]
Entities named for village include Võ Cạnh inscription[46], a stele[47], in Vietnam[48] and Kalo Chorio, Limassol[49], a community of Cyprus Republic[50], in Cyprus[51].