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Hamlet (place) A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. [1] [2] This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined for official or administrative purposes.
The Shire is a region of J. R. R. Tolkien 's fictional Middle-earth, described in The Lord of the Rings and other works. The Shire is an inland area settled exclusively by hobbits, the Shire-folk, largely sheltered from the goings-on in the rest of Middle-earth. It is in the northwest of the continent, in the region of Eriador and the Kingdom ...
Portmeirion ( / pɔːrtˈmɛriən /; [1] Welsh pronunciation: [pɔrtˈmei̯rjɔn]) is a folly [2] tourist village in Gwynedd, North Wales. It lies on the estuary of the River Dwyryd in the community of Penrhyndeudraeth, 2 miles (3.2 km) from Porthmadog and 1 mile (1.6 km) from Minffordd railway station. Portmeirion was designed and built by Sir ...
Fugging ( German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] ⓘ ), spelled Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village in the municipality of Tarsdorf, located in the Innviertel region of western Upper Austria. It is 33 km (21 mi) north of Salzburg and 4 km (2.5 mi) east of the Inn river, which forms part of the German border . Despite a population of only 106 in 2020, the ...
Rural Society. Rural areas in the United States, often referred to as rural America, [1] consists of approximately 97% of the United States ' land area. An estimated 60 million people, or one in five residents (17.9% of the total U.S. population ), live in rural America. Definitions vary from different parts of the United States government as ...
Village (United States) A Shaker village's main street in Massachusetts. In the United States, the meaning of village varies by geographic area and legal jurisdiction. In formal usage, a " village " is a type of administrative division at the local government level. Since the Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the ...
Area code. 505. FIPS code. 35-58070. GNIS feature ID. 0915877. Placitas is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,977. [3] It is part of the Albuquerque Metropolitan Statistical Area .
Mineola is a village and the county seat of Nassau County, on Long Island, New York, United States.It's a suburb of New York City, located approximately 21 miles (34 km) east of midtown Manhattan.