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human settlement

Place of any size, in which people permanently live

Entityfirst-order class type of placeQ486972

Also known as settlement · inhabited place · human settlements · settlements

Instance of: first-order class
, type of place
Subclass of: geographic location
, populated place
, group of structures or buildings

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A human settlement, locality, or populated place is a place where people live and carry out social, economic, political, and cultural activities. The term encompasses a broad range of inhabited environments, including hamlets, villages, towns, cities, metropolitan regions, and larger settlement systems. Human settlements are created through human activity rather than natural processes and typically involve the construction of infrastructure and the modification of surrounding environments. They develop over long periods through the cumulative actions of many individuals and exist at scales ranging from individual dwellings to extensive urban regions.

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72 statements · 11% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

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42 identifiers linking human settlement across the web's reference databases

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11%

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AIDB. (2026). human settlement (Q486972). Retrieved from https://aidb.si/e/human-settlement-Q486972