urban,suburban,city,town,countryside,rural.

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I need help, please. What is the difference between these terms? Can you give me simple and effective guide? How do I categorise them?

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Hello Cahaya,

This was rather fun! One never thinks about everyday words this way.

Rural and countryside are synonymous; they have the same meaning: any area with few people, often with farms or widely spread homes, and usually little or no industry. Countryside is more informal; in writing a technical or political article, for example, it is more common to use rural.

A city has a high population density and is large: New York City, Beijing, Madrid, London. A town is smaller than a city. The exact definition by size of towns and cities varies greatly in different countries, and even from one state to another in the United States, but you might generally think of them as having from a few hundred up to maybe 20,000 or 30,000 people. A very small town is some regions is called a village or hamlet. Sometimes, you might hear the confusing term "country town", which refers to a small town in a rural area, distant from any large city.

Urban is inside a city, especially referring to where people live, commonly in large apartment buildings. Suburban is outside a city, but not quite so far outside as the rural areas, or countryside. It's where many people who work in the city live.

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Differentiate between city(urban) and country (rural)area

urban,suburban,city,town,countryside,rural.

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