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Village settlement patterns in Africa and Oceania
Village settlement patterns in Africa and Oceania compares how villages are distributed, sized, and governed: small self-sufficient African settlements versus varied Oceanic coastal and riverbank villages.
Village tracts of Myanmar
Village tracts of Myanmar are groupings of villages forming the lowest tier of rural administration, below the township and parallel to urban wards, led by a tract administrator.
Village-level divisions of Hubei
Village-level divisions of Hubei are the province's lowest administrative tier: 5,234 residents' communities and 20,754 administrative villages (end of 2025), self-governing bodies under 1,260 townships, governed by Hubei's villagers' committee measures.
Villages depopulated by the Yugoslav Wars
Villages depopulated by the Yugoslav Wars are rural settlements in Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo emptied by expulsion, flight, or killing in the 1990s, with over 2,500 Bosnian villages affected and many never resettled.
Villages in Asia
Villages in Asia are small rural settlements, the dominant settlement form for about 47.4% of the continent's population in 2023, falling to roughly 40% by 2030.
Villages of Central Africa
Villages of Central Africa surveys rural settlements in the DRC, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, and Cameroon, home to roughly 70.5 million rural people in 2010.
Villages of East and Southeast Asia
Villages of East and Southeast Asia are rural settlements that function as social units, including the Chinese cun, Japanese mura, and Korean dongri, which differ in organization and ties to the state.
Villages of Estonia
A küla, or village, is Estonia's basic rural settlement type, generally with fewer than 300 inhabitants; the 2021 census counted 4,456 villages, including 96 uninhabited ones.
Villages of Europe
Villages of Europe is an overview of European villages, small rural settlements that were the basic unit of agrarian life, covering their medieval origins, regional forms, and modern depopulation.
Villages of Indonesia
Villages of Indonesia, also called Villages in Indonesia, covers the desa, the lowest government tier, defined by Law No. 6 of 2014, with over 75,000 villages receiving central funds since 2015.
Villages of North Macedonia
Villages of North Macedonia are agrarian settlements legally distinct from cities, forming 1,749 of 1,783 settlements in 2019, though 205 stood empty by 2021 and villages cover 86.7% of the territory.
Villages of Pakistan
Villages of Pakistan are officially defined as mouzas, or dehs in Sindh, the smallest revenue units; the 2020 census counted 49,463, housing most of the population.
Villages of Romania
Villages of Romania are rural settlements, called sat in Romanian, with no legal personality of their own; about 12,500 existed in 2021, governed through communes.
Villages of Taiwan
Villages of Taiwan are 4,271 officially coded rural community areas, including about 588 indigenous villages in the central mountains and 30 indigenous townships whose mayors must be Aboriginal.
Villages of the Middle East
Villages of the Middle East are nucleated rural settlements between city and nomad camp, defined by autonomy, shaped by water and communal tenure, and transformed by modernization and migration.
Villagization
Villagization: state relocation of dispersed rural populations into planned villages, chiefly Tanzania's ujamaa program (1967–1975) under Nyerere, plus Ethiopia's 1985 campaign and Portuguese colonial aldeamentos; voluntary origins, later compulsory, with falling farm output.
Vinařice
Vinařice: name of several Bohemian villages (Kladno, Louny, Mladá Boleslav, Kolín districts) and of the Vinařice group, a 5th-century AD Migration Period archaeological culture of Bohemia known from cemeteries such as Prague-Zličín.
Višķi
Višķi, also spelled Vishki or Wyschki, is a village in Latgale, southeastern Latvia, northeast of Daugavpils; founded in the 17th century, it was a mostly Jewish shtetl whose community was destroyed in 1941.
Voerendaal
Voerendaal is a municipality in the province of Limburg, in the far south of the Netherlands, known for the Roman villa of Voerendaal-Ten Hove, the largest known in the country.
Vorukh (Ворух)
Vorukh (Ворух) is a Tajik exclave village of about 130 km² and 32,000-40,000 mostly Tajik residents, surrounded by Kyrgyzstan's Batken region and long a flashpoint of the Kyrgyz-Tajik border dispute, with clashes in 2014, 2021, and 2022.
Voskresenskiy
Voskresenskiy (Воскресенский) is a village in Anapa Urban Okrug, Krasnodar Krai, Russia, near the Black Sea, and hosts an ancient settlement recorded in the Barrington Atlas.
Vrbice (Czechia)
Vrbice is the name of at least fourteen villages and municipal parts in the Czech Republic, from the Czech vrba, willow, some distinguished as Velké Vrbice.
Vyškov
Vyškov, Moravian Czech town in the Vyškov Gate, first mentioned 1141; covers its 1789 municipal cemetery on a former Capuchin monastery garden, 1888 Jewish cemetery, parish church crypt, and regional archaeology; distinct from the village Výškov in Louny District.
Walled villages of Hong Kong (香港围村)
Walled villages of Hong Kong (香港圍村, wai) are fortified single-surname lineage settlements in the New Territories, built by Punti and Hakka clans against pirates and bandits; examples include Kat Hing Wai, San Wai, Lo Wai, and Hakka Lai Chi Wo.
Wancennes
Wancennes (Wancène), a village in Beauraing, Namur, Belgium, site of the Gallo-Roman villa Wancennes-La Couturelle: eight buildings over 2 hectares, occupied 1st century to about 275 AD, excavated from 1883–84, with Roman and Frankish cemeteries.
Warfusée-Abancourt
Warfusée-Abancourt, a village and former commune in the Somme, France, merged into Lamotte-Warfusée in 1974; known for a 320 m Gallo-Roman villa complex revealed by Roger Agache's aerial archaeology.
Wasp (place name)
Wasp is the name of American places named after the wasp, a stinging insect whose English name descends from Old English, including Wasp, West Virginia, and Wasp, Tennessee.
Weidman, Michigan
Weidman, Michigan: unincorporated community and census-designated place in Isabella County, founded 1893 by lumberman John S. Weidman; post office since 1894; population about 1,156.
Wengen
Wengen, a car-free Swiss alpine village in the Bernese Oberland at 1,274 m above the Lauterbrunnen Valley, reachable only by the Wengernalp cogwheel railway, home of the Lauberhorn downhill ski races and gateway to the Jungfraujoch.
West Bay, Dorset
West Bay, Dorset, formerly Bridport Harbour, is a Jurassic Coast harbour village south of Bridport, renamed in 1884 with the railway, known for Pier Terrace, golden cliffs, Broadchurch filming, and its working harbour.