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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A small town, a
village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a
hamlet with the population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand
(sometimes tens of thousands), Though often located in rural areas, the
term urban village is also applied to certain urban neighbourhoods, such
as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in
Beirut, Lebanon, as well as Hampstead Village in the London conurbation.
Villages are normally permanent, with fixed dwellings; however,
transient villages can occur. Further, the dwellings of a village are
fairly close to one another, not scattered broadly over the landscape,
as a dispersed settlement.
