Urban Settlement

Urban settlement may refer to:

  • Urban area, area with high density of human-created structures
  • Municipal urban settlement, a type of municipal formation in Russia
  • Urban settlement, a synonym for urban localities in Russia
  • Urban-type settlement, an official designation for a certain type of urban locality used in some of the former republics of the Soviet Union

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