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town

settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a large village (or a large borough in some areas)
Class type of: urban settlement, city or town Q3957

Facts

12 properties
Instance of
classification of human settlements
Subclass of
urban settlement, city or town
Part of
country[4]
Facet of
ekistics[10]
Described by source
Otto's encyclopedia, Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12][13][14]
Different from
big city, town of China, city, town of Japan, town of Turkmenistan[15][16][17][18][19]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Cities[24]
Model item
Walldürn, Benešov[22][23]
Next higher rank
city[21]
Next lower rank
large village[20]
OpenStreetMap tag
place=town[11]
Said to be the same as
miasteczko, urban-type settlement, městys, povoado, small city[5][6][7][8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en small city en town en small town ar مدينة صغيرة ar بلدة ar بلده cs malé město cs městečko cs maloměsto da mindre by de Kleinstadt el κωμόπολη el πόλισμα es villa es ciudad pequeña fa شهرک fi pikkukaupunki fr faubourg fr petite ville fr bourgade
🔖 Identifiers · 43
GND ID
4031110-7
OpenAlex ID
C3018468719
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Панорама Кременецьких гір в районі Крем'янця.jpg ↗
ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID
294941320
Arabic Ontology concept ID
54083
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300008375
Australian Educational Vocabulary ID
scot/8423
BBC Things ID
6e8f2722-4cbf-476d-8b9e-613f6a66c1ab
BabelNet ID
00077773n
Bing entity ID
dc78f3d6-14b6-726c-5838-66a5698fe119
Common Core Ontologies concept ID
ont00000071
Concepticon concept set ID
1391
Show all 43 identifiers +31
Data Commons ID
Town
Described at URL
mappings.dbpedia.org
EAGLE id
objtyp/lod/376
Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ID
Mistechko
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/town
Equivalent class
dbpedia.org, www.kyoto-project.eu, crl.nmsu.edu
EuroVoc ID
2361
FISH Monument Types Thesaurus ID
68750
Freebase ID
/m/0dx1j
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
vila-4
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0150705
Great Encyclopedia of Navarre ID
20701
HDS ID
007870
IMDb keyword
town
KBpedia ID
Town
Museum-digital tag ID
75750
NALT ID
46120
NL CR AUT ID
ph122589
OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID
Wikidata item
PSH ID
265
Quora topic ID
Small-Cities-and-Towns, Town-1
STW Thesaurus for Economics ID
19457-2
SVKKL authority ID
0208196-mala-mesta
TDV Encyclopedia of Islam ID
kasaba
Topic's main category
Category:Towns, Category:Town
UNESCO Thesaurus ID
concept5287
UVL group ID
town
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID
08688906-n
YSO ID
12059
Yale LUX ID
concept/0adc9d80-afe0-4317-b8b3-250b239e1a36
Zhihu topic ID
19632293

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🔗 Connections
Examples 4992+
Korçë, Brindisi, Mariehamn, Mostar, Eisenstadt, Alofi, Cortina d'Ampezzo, Wismar +4984 more
Subtypes 7+
market town, episcopal see, hill station, town of Japan, town of China, book town, county town
Different from 4
city, big city, town of Japan, town of China
Model item 2
Benešov, Walldürn
Said to be the same as 2
urban-type settlement, miasteczko
Topic's main category 2
Category:Towns, Category:Town
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Maintained by WikiProject 1
WikiProject Cities
Named after 1+
Los Palacios y Villafranca
Next higher rank 1
city
Part of 1
country
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Summary

town is a classification of human settlements[1]. town is a type of urban settlement[2] and city or town[3].

Body

Influence

Things named for town include Los Palacios y Villafranca[25], a municipality of Spain[26], in Spain[27], founded in 1836[28] and Town-class light cruiser[29], a ship class[30], founded in 1910[31].

Why It Matters

Entities named for town include Los Palacios y Villafranca[25], a municipality of Spain[26], in Spain[27], founded in 1836[28] and Town-class light cruiser[29], a ship class[30], founded in 1910[31].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  9. [10] ↑ . Ekistics, the Science of Human Settlements. wikidata.org.
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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [30] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [31] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 14d ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → classification of human settlements
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Town, http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#town-eng-3.0-08, http://crl.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/Research/Projects/mikro/olook?TO
    "Created claim: Equivalent class: http://crl.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/Research/Projects/mikro/olook?TOWN"
  2. 4w ago · عُثمان · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    "Changed claim: Equivalent class: http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Town"
  3. 8w ago · DeltaBot bot · 2026-09-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → classification of human settlements
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Town, http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#town-eng-3.0-08, http://crl.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/Research/Projects/mikro/olook?TO
    "Merged from another item"
  4. 9w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-09-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Common Core Ontologies concept ID → ont00000071
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #53024"
  5. 10w ago · عُثمان · 2026-08-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Equivalent class → http://dbpedia.org/ontology/Town, http://www.kyoto-project.eu/ontologies/Kyoto#town-eng-3.0-08, http://crl.nmsu.edu/cgi-bin/Research/Projects/mikro/olook?TO
    "Created claim: Equivalent class: https://www.commoncoreontologies.org/ont00000071"
  6. 11w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → big city, town of China, city +1
    OpenStreetMap Wiki item ID → Wikidata item
    Wikidata description → settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a lar
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #48943: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  7. 17w ago · Bencemac · 2026-07-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → settlement that is smaller than a city but bigger than a lar
    Instance of → classification of human settlements
    "Added qualifier: Determination method or standard: record linkage, batch #260984"
  8. 20w ago · B.Zsolt · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → classification of human settlements
    "Created claim: Instance of: administrative territorial entity"
  9. 20w ago · Huntster · 2026-06-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facet of → ekistics
    "Created claim: Facet of: ekistics, Copying from large city"
  10. 22w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SVKKL authority ID → 0208196-mala-mesta
    "Created claim: SVKKL authority ID: 0208196-mala-mesta, batch #259495"
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