Villages, hamlets, and rural localities

Pueblo

Pueblo: Spanish for "village," the term for the multi-story adobe or stone apartment-like dwellings of the Pueblo peoples of New Mexico and Arizona, their kivas and plazas, and the 19 sovereign New Mexico communities descended from Ancestral Puebloans.

Pulborough

Pulborough is a village and civil parish on the River Arun in Horsham district, West Sussex, England, where the Roman road Stane Street crossed the river.

Pullareddigudem (Andhra Pradesh 59)

Pullareddigudem, a village in Macherla Mandal, Guntur (Palnadu), Andhra Pradesh, is the revenue village under which the Nagarjunakonda Buddhist site was notified; ASI monument serial 59 covers its mounds and the Hill of Nagarjunakonda.

Punāsa

Punasa (Punāsa): name shared by two Indian villages and a tehsil. The main one is a village and tehsil headquarters in Khandwa (East Nimar) district, Madhya Pradesh, on the Narmada near the Indira Sagar dam; another Punasa village is in Bhinmal tehsil, Jalor, Rajasthan.

Purchase, New York

Purchase, New York is an unincorporated hamlet in the Town of Harrison, Westchester County, named from Harrison's Purchase of 1695; home to the 500-acre SUNY Purchase campus and the Neuberger Museum of Art, with estate-scale housing and ZIP 10577.

Putineiu

Putineiu, a commune in Teleorman County, Romania (villages Putineiu, Carlomanu, Băduleasa), on the Călmățui river; site of a 53×53 m timber-and-earth Roman Numeruskastell on the limes Transalutanus, excavated by Bogdan-Cătăniciu.

Qadirpur Ran

Qadirpur Ran (قادِرپُور راں) is a Town Committee town in Multan District, Punjab, Pakistan, at 30.29N 71.67E; 2023 census population 27,278, growth 2.23%, household size 5.14.

Rabouni refugee camp

Rabouni (Rabuni) is the administrative center of the Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf, Algeria, hosting Polisario Front headquarters, SADR ministries, the main hospital, and UNHCR operations, about 25 km from Tindouf.

Răcari

Răcari: a town in Dâmbovița County, Romania (formerly Podul Bărbierului, attested 1725, renamed 1911), and a Roman auxiliary fort at Răcarii de Jos, Dolj, garrisoned by the Numerus Maurorum.

Rachel, Nevada

Rachel, Nevada is an unincorporated Lincoln County town of 48 people on State Route 375, the Extraterrestrial Highway, 27 miles north of Area 51; founded by D.C. Day and home to the Little A'Le'Inn.

Radford Semele

Radford Semele is a Warwickshire village and civil parish east of Leamington Spa, recorded in Domesday as Redeford, with St Nicholas Church, Radford Hall, a Grand Union Canal crossing, and a 2021 Neighbourhood Plan.

Rainbow Village

Rainbow Family Village (彩虹眷村), or Rainbow Village, is a murals-covered former military dependents' village in Nantun, Taichung, Taiwan, painted by veteran Huang Yung-fu, 'Rainbow Grandpa', from 2008; defaced in 2022, reopened 2023.

Rajneeshpuram

Rajneeshpuram was the City of Rajneesh, an intentional community built 1981-1985 by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh's followers on Oregon's Big Muddy Ranch, ending in the 1984 salmonella bioterror attack, Sheela's arrest, and Rajneesh's deportation.

Ram Hurmizd

Ram Hurmizd (Rāmhormoz, رامهرمز) is a town in Khuzestan, Iran, founded by Sasanian king Hormozd I as Rām-Ohrmazd-Ardašīr, on a plain settled since the 5th millennium BCE near Elamite Huhnur.

Ramiros

Ramiros (Ramiro's) is a commune of Belas Municipality in Luanda Province, Angola, about 35 km south of central Luanda near Mussulo Bay; a fast-growing peri-urban district served by the Bita water project and Benfica–Ramiros bus routes.

Rancho Santa Fe, California

Rancho Santa Fe, an unincorporated San Diego County planned community, developed 1920s by Santa Fe Land Improvement Company on the Rancho San Dieguito land grant, designed by Lilian Rice, governed by the 1928 Protective Covenant.

Randwijk

Randwijk is a village in Overbetuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands, on the Rhine's south bank, also known as Rinwick, site of a hypothetical Roman limes fort never confirmed by excavation.

Rankin Inlet

Rankin Inlet (Kangiqtiniq) is a hamlet on Hudson Bay's west coast in Nunavut's Kivalliq region, the territory's second-largest community (2,975 in 2021), founded on the 1957–1962 North Rankin Nickel Mine and now serving the Meliadine gold mine.

Rasapūdipalem

Rasapūdipalem (Rasapudipalem, Raspari Palao) is a populated place in Visakhapatnam Rural, Andhra Pradesh, India, at 17.7331 N, 83.3162 E, GeoNames ID 1258393, near Visakhapatnam, elevation about 45 m.

Rassvet

Rassvet (Рассвет, "dawn") is a common Russian toponym for many villages and settlements, including Rassvet in Aksaysky District, Rostov Oblast (about 4,960 residents), a Bosporan archaeological settlement, and places in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Chelyabinsk Oblast, and elsewhere.

Raszyn

Raszyn is a village and seat of Gmina Raszyn in Pruszków County, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland, near Warsaw on the Raszynka river; site of the 1809 Battle of Raszyn and the Zug-designed Austeria.

Ravenscar

Ravenscar, formerly Peak, is a North Yorkshire coastal hamlet on a 700-foot headland, known for its late Roman signal station, the RIB 721 inscription, Middle Jurassic Ravenscar Group geology, alum works, and failed Victorian resort.

Rawang

Rawang is a town in Gombak District, Selangor, Malaysia, about 30 km north of Kuala Lumpur; a former tin-mining settlement where the country's first electric generator (1894) and first industrial-scale cement plant (1953) operated, now a fast-growing KTM-connected satellite town.

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Recaptive settlement in Sierra Leone

Recaptive settlement in Sierra Leone was the resettlement of Africans freed from slave ships by the Royal Navy in villages around Freetown between 1808 and 1863.

Reculver

Reculver (Roman Regulbium) is a Kent coastal site with an early 3rd-century Saxon Shore fort, an Anglo-Saxon monastery founded in 669 by King Egbert for Bassa, and 12th-century twin church towers used as a sea-mark.

Rederzhausen

Rederzhausen is a village of about 1,400 inhabitants and a district of Friedberg in Bavarian Swabia, Germany, first recorded in the 12th century as Raetershusen and part of Friedberg since 1978.

Rennes-le-Château

Rennes-le-Château, a hilltop village in the Aude, southern France, famous for the Abbé Saunière affair: a priest's unexplained spending, the treasure legend launched by Noël Corbu, and the forged parchments of Pierre Plantard's Priory of Sion.

Resolute, Nunavut

Resolute (Qausuittuq, "place with no dawn") is a hamlet of 183 people on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada's second northernmost community, created by the 1953-1955 High Arctic relocation of Inuit from Inukjuak and Pond Inlet and now a High Arctic logistics and research hub.

Reston, Virginia

Reston, Virginia: planned community and census-designated place in western Fairfax County, founded by Robert E. Simon Jr. (opened 1964), a 1960s new town with village centers, Lake Anne historic district, Reston Town Center, and Silver Line Metro service.