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Ridgewood, New Jersey
Ridgewood, New Jersey: a village in Bergen County incorporated November 20, 1894 from Ridgewood Township (formerly Godwinville). Council-manager Faulkner Act Plan B government; 25,979 residents (2020); railroad suburb born with the 1848 Paterson and Ramapo line.
Rijsbergen
Rijsbergen is a village in the municipality of Zundert, North Brabant, Netherlands, near the Belgian border, known for the 1812 find of a Roman altar to the otherwise unattested goddess Sandraudiga and her nearby temple.
Riva S. Vitale
Riva S. Vitale (Riva San Vitale), Ticino village on Lake Lugano, Switzerland; home of the ~500 AD Baptistery of San Giovanni, the oldest fully preserved Christian building in Switzerland, and a former Roman vicus and port of Como.
Robin Hood's Bay
Robin Hood's Bay: historic fishing and smuggling village on the North Yorkshire coast in Fylingdales parish, between Whitby and Scarborough, and eastern terminus of the 192-mile Coast to Coast walk.
Rocamadour
Rocamadour, Lot, Occitanie: cliffside French commune and medieval Marian pilgrimage sanctuary with the 12th-century Black Madonna, 216-step Grand Escalier, Saint Amadour relics, and UNESCO-listed basilica and crypt.
Rodanthe, North Carolina
Rodanthe, North Carolina: village of about 200 on Hatteras Island, Outer Banks, Dare County; home of the 1874 Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station and site of severe coastal erosion, with over a dozen oceanfront houses collapsing into the Atlantic since 2020.
Romeyer
Romeyer, a commune in the Drôme (26), France, in the canton of Die at the edge of the Vercors, known for the Meyrosse cirque, ten archaeological sites, and the Romeyer surname.
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon
Roquefort-sur-Soulzon is a small commune in Aveyron, Occitanie, France (INSEE 12203), the sole authorized maturing zone for Roquefort AOP cheese, aged in Combalou caves; about 500 residents, mayor Yannick Rouquette.
Rosewood, Florida
Rosewood, Florida was a mostly Black Levy County town founded circa 1855 and destroyed by a white mob in the January 1923 Rosewood massacre; the 1994 state reparations law was the first of its kind.
Rothley
Rothley is a village and civil parish in Charnwood, Leicestershire, England, on a tributary of the Soar. Known for its Domesday record, Knights Templar Rothley Temple, a scheduled Roman villa, and a Saxon cemetery at The Grange.
Rougham
Rougham is the name of two villages in East Anglia, England: a Suffolk village near Bury St Edmunds, and a Norfolk parish recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book.
Royal Hillsborough
Royal Hillsborough is a Georgian village in County Down, Northern Ireland, formerly Hillsborough or Cromlyn; in 2021 it became Northern Ireland's first Royal settlement, home to Hillsborough Castle, official royal residence and seat of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
Rudston
Rudston, East Riding of Yorkshire village near Bridlington, home of the Rudston Monolith, England's largest standing stone, and a Roman villa whose Venus and Charioteer mosaics are in Hull's museum.
Ruidoso, New Mexico
Ruidoso is a village in Lincoln County, southern New Mexico, in the Sacramento Mountains at 6,920 feet elevation. A mountain resort town near Ski Apache and Lincoln National Forest, it suffered the 2024 South Fork Fire and deadly 2025 flooding.
Rupite (Рупите)
Rupite (Рупите) is a village and locality near Petrich, southwestern Bulgaria, at the extinct Kozhuh volcano, known for 74 °C mineral springs, Baba Vanga's grave at the 1994 St. Petka church, and nearby Heraclea Sintica.
Rural area
Rural area: territory outside defined urban areas, marked by low population density and small settlements. Defined residually by the U.S. Census Bureau, by 1 km² grid cells under the EU/OECD degree of urbanisation, and by nonmetro counties in USDA usage.
Rural localities of the Americas
Rural localities of the Americas are settled places outside each country's urban definition, which varies by country, from US census rules to Mexico's 2,500-inhabitant threshold.
Rural settlement
Rural settlement: countryside communities from farmsteads to nucleated villages, living off land-based primary activities; classified as clustered, semi-clustered, hamleted, or dispersed, and linked to cities through trade and services.
Russian rural locality types
Russian rural locality types are labels for rural settlements such as selo, derevnya, and khutor, historically distinguished by whether a village had an Orthodox church.
Sabbavaram (సబ్బవరం)
Sabbavaram (సబ్బవరం) is a village and mandal headquarters in Anakapalli district, Andhra Pradesh, about 30 km from Visakhapatnam; 12,200 residents in 2011, literacy 73.49%, and start of the NH-516C six-lane Sabbavaram–Sheelanagar port road.
Sag Harbor, New York
Sag Harbor, New York: incorporated village in Suffolk County on eastern Long Island, straddling Southampton and East Hampton towns; a former whaling port designated a Port of Entry by Washington in 1789, now a Hamptons resort village of 2,772 people with the Whaling Museum and SANS historic district.
Sahel villages of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Chad
Sahel villages are clustered rural settlements of extended families in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, and Chad, typically thatched dwellings of 150 to 600 inhabitants in Mali.
Saifai (सैफई)
Saifai (सैफई) is a village and tehsil in Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, ancestral village of Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav, home to UPUMS medical university, Major Dhyan Chand Sports College, and the annual Saifai Mahotsav festival.
Saint Peters, England
Saint Peters (St Peter-in-Thanet), Kent, England: a village in Broadstairs and St. Peters, Thanet District, on the Isle of Thanet, established around its circa-1080 parish church, a Limb of Dover in the Cinque Ports.
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert
Saint-Guilhem-le-Désert, also Gellone abbey: a medieval village in Hérault, France, founded 804 by Guilhem, cousin of Charlemagne, on the Way of Saint James, UNESCO-listed since 1998, with a unique 12th-century marble-and-glass altar.
Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne
Saint-Louis-de-Terrebonne, a former parish municipality in Les Moulins, Quebec, founded as a parish in 1723 honoring abbe Louis Lepage, constituted municipally in 1855, and merged with Terrebonne in 1985; now an official village within the city.
Salash
Salash: a village in Belogradchik municipality, northwestern Bulgaria, near the Serbian border; also an ancient Roman fort (Barrington Atlas 21 E6), the Salash geological Formation, a river, and a Serbian farmstead term.
San Agustinillo
San Agustinillo is a small Pacific beach village in Santa María Tonameca, Oaxaca, Mexico, between Mazunte and Zipolite; a 1.3 km bay beach known for calm swimming, snorkeling with sea turtles, surfing, and nearby olive ridley nesting grounds.
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana
Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana (SAGY), launched 11 October 2014 by PM Modi, is an Indian rural scheme in which MPs adopt Gram Panchayats as model villages, funded by convergence with no dedicated budget.
Săpânța
Săpânța is a village of about 3,000 people in Maramureș County, far northern Romania, on the Tisa river that borders Ukraine, known worldwide for its Merry Cemetery.