Rural geography

thumb| Bourton-on-the-Water, a village in [[England.]] thumb|right|Pacentro, [[Italy]] thumb|Strochitsy, [[Belarus, pictured 2008]] thumb|Pornainen, [[Finland]] thumb|An Swiss Alps|Alpine village in the [[Lötschental valley, Switzerland]] thumb|A Berber people|Berber village in Ourika valley, [[High Atlas, Morocco]] A village is a human settlement or a residential community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousands. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village is also applied to certain

thumb|Church Farm in Norfolk, [[England]] thumb|upright=0.9|Typical plan of a medieval English manor, showing the use of field strips

geographic area that is located outside towns and cities

thumb|A ploughed field left unsown Fallow is a farming technique in which arable land is left without sowing for one or more vegetative cycles. The goal of fallowing is to allow the land to recover and store organic matter while retaining moisture and disrupting pest life cycles and soil-borne pathogens by temporarily removing their hosts. Crop rotation systems typically called for some of a farmer's fields to be left fallow each year.

thumb|Tourism sign post in [[Yalgoo, Western Australia]]

urban community that is primarily residential, from which most of the workforce commutes out

thumb|300px|Konstantin Kryzhitsky. A Khutir in [[Little Russia, 1884]]

A stanitsa or stanitza ( ; ), also spelled stanytsia ( ) or stanitsa ( ), was a historical administrative unit of a Cossack host, a type of Cossack polity that existed in the Russian Empire.

deserts of Australia

thumb|275px|Vytegra|Vytegra Pogost, as photographed by [[Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, ]]

road, lane, track or path situated in a natural or ancient cutting

refers to undeveloped rural areas (in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other places)

type of rural settlement in Belarus

Regions in Alaska not connected to major transportation networks

settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office

thumb|Exurban-style density along the Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania Tri-State Point|Delaware–Maryland–Pennsylvania border, part of the [[Philadelphia metropolitan area]] thumb|Exurban development (left side) blends into suburban development (right side) in Loudoun County, Virginia, in the western part of the [[Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area.]]

legally defined farm type in all former socialist countries in CIS and CEE; small plot of land (typically less than 0.5 hectares) attached to a rural residence

A clachan ( or ; ; ) is a small settlement or hamlet on the island of Ireland, the Isle of Man and Scotland. Though many were originally kirktowns, today they are often thought of as small villages lacking a church, post office, or other formal building. It is likely that many date to medieval times or earlier – a cluster of small single-storey cottages of farmers and/or fishermen, invariably found on poorer land. They were often related to the rundale system of farming.