Human settlement

The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of cities with surrounding urbanized areas.

In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, settlements are "a city, town, village or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work".

[1] A settlement conventionally includes its constructed facilities such as roads, enclosures, field systems, boundary banks and ditches, ponds, parks and woodlands, wind and water mills, manor houses, moats and churches.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) of the Republic of Ireland has had a special definition of census towns.

From the 2022 census of Ireland, the CSO introduced an urban geography unit called "Built Up Areas" (BUAs).

[6] The Registrar General for Scotland defines settlements as groups of one or more contiguous localities, which are determined according to population density and postcode areas.

In the field of geospatial predictive modeling, a settlement is "a city, town, village, or other agglomeration of buildings where people live and work".

The data is processed fully automatically and generates analytics and knowledge reporting objectively and systematically about the presence of population and built-up infrastructures.

The term "Abandoned populated places" is a Feature Designation Name in databases sourced by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency[10] and GeoNames.

The small town of Flora, Oregon , in the United States, is unincorporated, but is considered a populated place.
A field landscape of the rural Pajuniemi village in Sastamala , Pirkanmaa, Finland
Taos Pueblo , an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos -speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people . It is approximately 1000 years old and lies about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico .
London , a city in the United Kingdom , is a large settlement with a human population of 14 million in its metropolitan area.
Some settlement sites may go out of use. This location in Estonia was used for human settlement in 2nd half of first millennium and it is considered an archaeological record , that may provide information on how people lived back then.
Urban structure of Sortavala , a town in Republic of Karelia , Russia
Abandoned buildings in Kolmanskop , Namibia [ 9 ]