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In England and Wales (if not all over the UK) isn't the actual difference bretween a village and town determined by whether or not there is a town charter? This would explain why villages can be larger than towns as mentioned in the article. Dainamo 18:54, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)


Under "Germany": The term "Oberzentrum" is something I never heard before, and I grew up in Germany!

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[edit] Disambiguation

I propose that this article become a disambiguation page. There are many different types of towns--too many to cover in this one article. For example, in Illinois, there is a type of municipality called an incorporated town; however, within the same state there are also unincorporated civil townships, which are sometimes also simply called towns. There are many other types of towns in other states and counties. Squideshi 17:20, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Strongly oppose - the content you would write to disambiguate would form the summary of the different types of town articles and might as well be the text of this article. No issue with a separate article on say incorproated towns that already exists and hyperlinks to it, or even a statement to see main article but a dab page would be innappropriate. Feel free to edit and tidy but not to turn into a dab page.--A Y Arktos\talk 19:42, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Russian Gorod

It is not mentioned in the article but it is necessary to know that the modern Russian Lenguage (even in the past) doesn't fill the difference between city and town. Both types of urban areas in Russian are called like gorod (Rus: Город). Only some very small towns in Russia and some other CIS and Slaic countries are called as the "Settlement of the Uran type" (Rus: "Посёлок городского типа" ПГТ (PGT)). The main difference between the Urban and Rural areas in Russia is not the population quantity but the dominate kind of employment (in Agreculture or in service and Industry).

Anyhow if the regular population of the area is 5000 - 10000 persons and more with the dominate non-agricultural employment such a place could be noted as a "gorod". Both Moscow with more than 10 000 000 population and Pavlovsk, Voronezh Region (for example) with 15 000 people only are gorods in Russian.

Dr. Alexey Silakov, 25.10.06, 11.09 Moscow Tyme

[edit] Towns in the United States

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Towns, especially the so-called small towns, are usually classified in the United States as rural areas, versus the big or small cities as the urban areas. Many of these small-towns could be farming communities with comparatively small population; such a place would definitely be called a village in Great Britain or India (where a town is usually an urban area).

Says who? That is certainly not the definition that the Census Bureau uses. As to what "such a place would definitely be called" in Great Britain or India, I can't say for certain, but I can say that if it's so definite, a citation wouldn't hurt. Doctor Whom 19:50, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Meaning of Borough

Bit strange that the meaning of Borough is the opposite of related languages (Dutch, German, see [Burg]). Can sb with access to English etymological sources check this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.74.100 (talk) 21:41, 28 January 2008 (UTC)