How small is a hamlet?

Table of Contents:

1. How small is a hamlet?
2. What is smaller than a village?
3. What's another word for village?
4. What is bigger than a town but smaller than a city?
5. What is larger than a metropolis?

How small is a hamlet?

Hamlet or Band - a hamlet has a tiny population (fewer than 100), with only a few buildings. A social band are the simplest level of foraging societies with generally a maximum size of 30 to 50 people; consisting of a small kin group, no larger than an extended family or clan.

What is smaller than a village?

In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church or other place of worship (e.g. one road or a crossroads, with houses either side).

What's another word for village?

In this page you can discover 34 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for village, like: hamlet, small-town, settlement, community, dorp, microcosm, pueblo, thorp (British), greenwich village, thorp and microcosmic.

What is bigger than a town but smaller than a city?

- A city is a large and permanent human settlement. - A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. ... - A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand.

What is larger than a metropolis?

town: an urban area that has a name, defined boundaries, and local government, and that is larger than a village and generally smaller than a city. city: a large town. metropolis: the capital or chief city of a country or region, or: a very large and densely populated industrial and commercial city.