907 articles
Oneida Community
Oneida Community: utopian commune founded 1848 by John Humphrey Noyes at Oneida, New York; practiced complex marriage, male continence, mutual criticism, and stirpiculture; became silverware maker Oneida Ltd. in 1880.
Onia
Onia: Latin and historical name of Oña, Burgos, Spain, an ancient place (BAtlas 14 G1) and site of the Benedictine monastery of San Salvador founded 1011 by Sancho García; also Jewish high priests Onias and an Arkansas hamlet.
Oostvoorne
Oostvoorne, village on Voorne island, South Holland, at the Maas mouth; seat of the Lords of Voorne with the Jacobaburcht motte castle, a presumed Roman fort, and WWII Biberbunker radar position.
Operation Vijiji
Operation Vijiji, also rendered Operation Vijijini, was Tanzania's compulsory campaign of 1973 to 1976 resettling millions of rural people into planned ujamaa villages under President Julius Nyerere.
Orania
Orania is a privately owned town in South Africa's Northern Cape, established in 1991 and inhabited almost exclusively by white Afrikaners pursuing an Afrikaner homeland.
Oscarville, Georgia
Oscarville was a small community in Newbridge district, Forsyth County, Georgia, center of the 1912 racial terror that expelled over 1,000 Black residents; later linked to Lake Lanier legends.
Oymyakon (Оймякон)
Oymyakon (Оймякон), a village on the Indigirka River in Sakha, Russia, is the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth, with an official record low of -67.7°C (1933), extreme Verkhoyansk rivalry, and a 102.3°C temperature range.
Oyster Bay, New York
Oyster Bay, New York: hamlet in Nassau County, Long Island, named in 1639 by David deVries for its oysters, settled 1653, a Revolutionary War spy hub and Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House site.
Pā
Pā (plural also pā) are Māori fortified villages or forts of Aotearoa New Zealand, built from about AD 1500; over 7,000 recorded, with stockades, trenches, ramparts, kumara stores, and refuge functions.
Pahrump, Nevada
Pahrump is an unincorporated town in Nye County, Nevada, about 60 miles west of Las Vegas and the county's population center, home to about 44,000 people in the Mojave Desert.
Palanca, Ștefan Vodă
Palanca (Palanca, Ștefan Vodă) is a village and commune in Ștefan Vodă District, Moldova, on the right bank of the Dniester; first recorded 1447, it is Moldova's easternmost point and hosts the Palanca–Mayaki–Udobnoe border crossing with Ukraine.
Panchayat samiti (पंचायत समिति)
Panchayat Samiti (पंचायत समिति), or block panchayat, is India's intermediate rural local government tier at the community development block level, between Gram Panchayat and Zila Parishad, created by the 1957 Balwantrai Mehta Committee and constitutionalized by the 73rd Amendment.
Pannes
Pannes is a commune in Meurthe-et-Moselle, Lorraine, France, site of a Gallo-Roman vicus at a road junction near the Madine river, with finds from 1828 onward; distinct from Pannes in Loiret.
Paradise Cay, California
Paradise Cay, California: unincorporated 1960s fill-land waterfront community on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, over 200 homes with yacht docks, dredged by County Service Area No. 29, ZIP 94920.
Paradise, Nevada
Paradise, Nevada: unincorporated Clark County township formed December 8, 1950 to block Las Vegas annexing the Strip; contains most Strip resorts, UNLV, and Harry Reid airport; 191,238 residents (2020).
Parandur (பரந்தூர்)
Parandur (பரந்தூர்), a village in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu, was chosen in 2022 as the site for the Chennai Greenfield Airport, a Rs 29,144-crore, 5,746-acre project abandoned by the state government in August 2026 after prolonged farmer protests.
Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Champs-Élysées
Paris 01 Ancien - Quartier Champs-Élysées, also Section des Champs-Élysées, is the historical quarter of the old 1st arrondissement of Paris around the avenue des Champs-Élysées, created in 1790, renamed quartier by the 1810 cadastre, and absorbed into the 8th arrondissement in 1860.
Paris, Ontario
Paris, Ontario: community in the County of Brant at the Nith–Grand river confluence, nicknamed Prettiest Little Town in Canada and Cobblestone Capital of Canada; founded by Hiram Capron, 1829, named for plaster of Paris gypsum.
Pebble Beach, California
Pebble Beach is an unincorporated coastal resort community on the Monterey Peninsula in California, best known for Pebble Beach Golf Links and the 17-Mile Drive.
Pedavegi
Pedavegi, also spelled Peddavegi, is a village in Andhra Pradesh, India, occupying the site of ancient Vengi, capital of the Salankayana, Vishnukundin, and Eastern Chalukya dynasties.
Peenemünde
Peenemünde, a village on northern Usedom island in the Baltic, hosted the German Army rocket research center where the V-2 was developed and first flown in 1942, using forced labor, and is now a museum site.
Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia
Peggys Cove, Nova Scotia: a fishing village on St. Margaret's Bay, home of Peggy's Point Lighthouse. Founded by an 1811 land grant to six German-descent families; famous granite coast, tourism icon, hazardous waves.
Pelentong
Pelentong (Plentong) is a mukim in Johor Bahru district, Johor, Malaysia, between Johor Bahru and Pasir Gudang. Known for kangchu river settlements, 1916 rubber estates, Pasir Gudang industrial growth, and Johor's highest-volume, lower-priced property market.
Pembury
Pembury is a large village in Kent, south-east England, lying in the High Weald about 2 miles north-east of Royal Tunbridge Wells, with a population around 6,500.
Pensacola Beach, Florida
Pensacola Beach, Florida: unincorporated resort community on Santa Rosa Island in Escambia County, governed by the Santa Rosa Island Authority, with county-owned land held under 99-year leases and a hurricane-exposed, tourist-driven economy.
Pentrich
Pentrich, Derbyshire village near Ripley with a Celtic-origin name, a Scheduled Roman fortlet on Castle Hill beside Ryknild Street, St Matthew's church (c.1150), Chatsworth estate history, and the 1817 rising.
Percut
Percut: coastal village (desa) in Percut Sei Tuan district, Deli Serdang, North Sumatra; 16,442 residents, 15.39 km², fishing economy and TPI Bagan Percut; district being split into Percut Sei Tuan and Percut Deli.
Perloja
Perloja is a village on the Merkys River in Varėna District, Lithuania, first recorded in 1378. Known for the Republic of Perloja, an independent parish self-government of 1918–1919 with its own committee, court, and militia.
Petržalka
Petržalka, a Bratislava municipal district on the Danube's right bank, is the largest prefabricated housing estate in Slovakia and Central Europe, with over 110,000 residents, about 50,000 flats, construction begun in 1973, and a new tram line opened in 2025.
Picher, Oklahoma
Picher, Oklahoma: Tri-State lead-zinc mining boomtown, peak population 14,252 in 1926, later the heart of the Tar Creek Superfund Site; evacuated, bought out, and disincorporated September 1, 2009 after contamination and mine-subsidence risks, then demolished.