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Udbina
Udbina is a village and municipality in Lika, central Croatia, on Krbavsko polje at about 830 m altitude; medieval seat of Krbava County and its bishopric, site of the 1493 Battle of Krbava Field, occupied 1991 and reintegrated in 1995.
Uelen
Uelen (Уэлен; Chukchi Увэлен) is a selo in Chukotsky District, Chukotka, the easternmost inhabited settlement of Russia and Eurasia since 1958, near Cape Dezhnev, with 673 residents (2023) and a famous walrus-ivory carving workshop founded in 1931.
Úherce
Úherce: name of two Czech villages, one in Louny District (German Auretz, first mentioned 1088) and one near Nýřany (first mentioned 1213), both with historic municipal cemeteries.
Ullapool
Ullapool, on Loch Broom in Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, is a planned fishing village founded in 1788 by the British Fisheries Society with Thomas Telford as designer. It is a fishing port, tourist centre, and CalMac ferry terminal for Stornoway.
Ulrichsberg
Ulrichsberg names several places in Austria and Germany: a 1,015 m archaeological mountain near Klagenfurt (Mons Carantanus), a market town in Upper Austria (first mentioned 1325), and hamlets in Kupferzell, Grafling, and Roßwein.
Ulu Bedok
Ulu Bedok is a locality in eastern Singapore, historically Mukim Number XXVIII in the colonial land survey, now within the Bedok Planning Area; recorded at 1.347778 N, 103.956389 E as a BGN standard name.
Unincorporated area
Unincorporated area: territory outside incorporated city or municipal boundaries, governed by county or township; over one-third of the U.S. population; counted via census designated places; distinct from incorporated municipalities with charters.
Upton-by-Chester
Upton-by-Chester is a civil parish and residential suburb about 2 miles north of Chester, Cheshire, including Upton and Upton Heath; Chester Zoo was founded there in 1931.
Uranium City
Uranium City is a northern Saskatchewan settlement on Lake Athabasca, built in 1952 to service Eldorado's Beaverlodge uranium mines, peaked near 4,600 people, and declined after the 1982 mine closure.
Urban village (城中村) (China)
Urban village (城中村, chengzhongcun, "village in the city"): rural settlements surrounded by expanding Chinese cities on collectively owned land. Dense migrant rental housing; 36.3% of Shenzhen's housing floor area; redevelopment now favors incremental renewal over demolition.
Ushguli
Ushguli is a community of four villages in Georgia's Upper Svaneti, set at 2,200 m below Mount Shkhara and known for its medieval defensive tower houses.
Vagamon
Vagamon (വാഗമൺ), also spelt Wagamon, is a hill station at 1,100 m on the Idukki–Kottayam border in Kerala, India, known for grasslands, pine forests, tea plantations, pilgrimage hills, paragliding, and India's longest 40-m cantilever glass bridge.
Vällingby
Vällingby is a district in western Stockholm, Sweden, planned from the late 1940s as the first ABC-stad, a satellite town combining work, housing, and a center.
Valsenestre
Valsenestre: hamlet of Valjouffrey (Isère, France) in the Béranger valley of the Écrins, known for its 1834–1907 white marble and cipolin quarry, once proposed for Napoleon's tomb, now restored holiday homes.
Velatice
Velatice, a village in Brno-venkov district, South Moravia, is the eponymous site of the Velatice Late Bronze Age urnfield culture and Baierdorf-Velatice complex, with a major Roman-period necropolis of over 70 graves.
Velké Hostěrádky
Velké Hostěrádky, a wine-growing village in Břeclav District, South Moravia, Czech Republic, near Klobouky u Brna; first mentioned 1210, about 500 residents, 215 m elevation, notable Hallstatt, Roman-era, and Great Moravian burial sites.
Velké Němčice
Velké Němčice is a market town (městys) in Břeclav District, South Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Svratka river 27 km south of Brno. First recorded 1228, briefly a town in 1562; 1,886 residents in 2025, with Baroque church and castle.
Velyki Sorochyntsi
Velyki Sorochyntsi (Великі Сорочинці) is a village on the Psol River in Poltava oblast, Ukraine, birthplace of Nikolai Gogol, home of the National Sorochyntsi Fair and the 1732 baroque Transfiguration Church, center of a 21-village hromada.
Větrušice
Větrušice (Větrušice u Klecan) is a village in Prague-East District, Czech Republic, on the right bank of the Vltava, with the Větrušické rokle national nature reserve and finds from the Neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman period, and early Middle Ages.
Vič
Vič, a district in southwestern Ljubljana, Slovenia, formerly a village and independent municipality (1825–1935, 656 ha) annexed to Ljubljana, merged with Rudnik in 1963; attested medieval forms Weycze, Weyze, Weitsch.
Vík í Mýrdal
Vík í Mýrdal (Vík) is Iceland's southernmost village, about 180-186 km from Reykjavík on the Ring Road, beneath Katla volcano and Mýrdalsjökull glacier, near Reynisfjara black sand beach, with no harbour and roughly 750-900 residents.
Viking Village Valshall
Vikingabyn Valshall (Viking Village Valshall) is a reconstructed Viking Age village on Senoren island in the Karlskrona archipelago, Blekinge, Sweden. Begun in 2011 by Mikael Helgesson, inspired by Blekinge finds and Katarina Mazetti's novel Blandat blod, run by a nonprofit association with an annual Viking market.
Vila Flor, Luanda
Vila Flor (Vila-Flor, Vila Flôr) is a locality of about 256,000 residents in Luanda Province, Angola, near EN120 and Estrada de Catete; attributed to Viana, Cazenga, or Kilamba depending on source and date.
Villa Epecuén
Villa Epecuén (Pueblo 'Mar de Epecuén'), Argentine spa village on hypersaline Lago Epecuén, Buenos Aires Province; founded 1921, flooded 10 November 1985, submerged ~20 years under up to 10 m of water, now salt-coated ruins and tourist site.
Villa Las Estrellas
Villa Las Estrellas, a Chilean civilian village founded 9 April 1984 on King George Island's Fildes Peninsula beside Frei Base, one of two Antarctic settlements with families, about 80-100 residents, school, hospital, and mandatory appendix removal.
Village
Village: a small rural settlement, smaller than a town, also called populated place or locality. Defined variously by census criteria, municipal law, and urban-village research in China and India.
Village (United States)
A village in the United States is a state-chartered incorporated municipality, the smallest municipal tier in about 20 states; rules, powers, and population thresholds vary by state, with New York's Village Law the fullest example.
Village as administrative division
A village as an administrative division is a settlement a legal system recognizes as a unit of government, with population thresholds and powers differing sharply across jurisdictions.
Village development committee (Nepal)
Village development committees (VDCs) were Nepal's lowest rural local government tier, created from village panchayats by the 1990 constitution, numbering 3,915, receiving central block grants, and dissolved on March 10, 2017 into village councils.
Village green
Village green (town or village green): English/Welsh open land used by local inhabitants for lawful sports and pastimes, registrable after 20 years' use as of right under the Commons Act 2006 and protected by the Inclosure Act 1857.