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Also known as urban community

type of urban populated place

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Within Vinony's link graph, urban-type settlement is referenced by 6,882 other articles, and connects out to Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Russia and Poland.

It sits within the topics People's Republic of Bulgaria, Polish People's Republic and Soviet phraseology.

Its subject is documented across 47 Wikipedia language editions.

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Urban housing in Mezhdurechensky, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, an example of urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the Soviet Union and later also for a short time in socialist Bulgaria and socialist Poland. It remains in use today in nine of the post-Soviet states.

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