Township

In Australia, Canada, Scotland, and parts of the United States, the term refers to settlements too small or scattered to be considered urban.

In Jersey, township is a redundant term, as the only surviving local government level at present are the 12 parishes of the island.

As a term, however, townships are still in common usage in New Zealand, used in referring to a small town or urban community located in a rural area.

[5] Mambukal, a hill station geographically located in Murcia, Negros Occidental, is the only legally constituted township in the Philippines, created under Republic Act No.

[citation needed] As a term, the word "township" in the Philippines is used to refer to new developments with their own amenities, including both vertical and horizontal projects.

The majority of the current townships are near Metro Manila, which permits faster access to the capital region by road or rail transport.

The former Russian Empire, Soviet Union, and Commonwealth of Independent States states is sometimes used to denote a small semi-urban, sometimes industrial, settlement and used to translate the terms поселок городского типа (townlet), посад (posad), местечко (mestechko, from Polish "miasteczko", a small town; in the cases of predominant Jewish population the latter is sometimes translated as shtetl).

[citation needed] In South Africa under apartheid, the term "township" was used to describe residential developments that confined non-Whites, including Blacks, Coloureds, and Indians, living near or working in White-only communities.

In England, the term "township" is no longer in official use, but still maintains some meaning, typically used to describe subdivisions of large parishes for administrative purposes.

During colonial years in Rhodesia, the term township referred to a residential area reserved for Black citizens within the boundaries of a city or town and is still commonly used colloquially.