User:Billyyy9/sandbox

A collection of the most widely accepted units of measuring a settlement's size - combining a variety of countries, cultures, geographers and otherwise sources that should, in almost all cases, avoid combination with each other - is as follows:

Hierarchical Label	Hierarchy position	Condition (definition)	Exclusivity	Examples
Isolated dwelling	1α	Settlement with a singular population area, smallest type of settlement described in the UK's Government planning system, which is based on the availability of services	none	Farm house/barnyard, local inns or live-in motels
Road house	1β	A type of Isolated dwelling consisting of just a single residency, permanently occupied by a nuclear family, usually between two and five family members	none	Lone residencies providing food, drinks, accommodation, fuel, and parking spaces to the guests and their vehicles
Homestead	2β	Cluster of isolated dwellings normally occupied by a single extended family, normally would only have one to five buildings or elementary families.	none
Band/Social band	2α	Population of 50-60 typically	almost exclusive to foraging or tribal communities
Hamlet	3α	Population of 100 or fewer	none
Tribe/Guild	3β	Population of 150 or fewer (with exceptions)	tribal societies	The Sentinelese, Bodi tribe
Parish	N/A	Local district, often with it's own council or ward	community usually associated with 1 specific church
Village	4α	Population of 100-1000	none	Nailstone, Higham on the Hill, Woodville, Osbaston
Housing Estate	N/A	A group of houses or flats built close together at the same time - typically between 500 & 1000 residents	British English ~ American English uses housing complex or housing development
Locality	4β	Population of more than 100 that isn't classified under any legal term	none	Scilly Isles, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR
Suburb	N/A		referring only to a subdivision of a larger urban area
Township	4γ	Population of 1,000-10,000	USA, Australia, Canada, Scotland, China, India, Jersey, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, Zimbabwe
Town/Burg	5α	Population of 10,000-100,000	none	Nuneaton, Chichester, Leamington Spa
Large town	5β	Population of 100,000-300,000	none	Gelsenkirchen, Osnabrück, Milton Keynes, Oxford
Regiopolis	5β/6α/6β	A settlement outside the core of a metropolitan area, that serves as an independent driving force for development within a larger region	Germany (may be applied to wider EU in the near future)	Rostock
City	6α	Population of 300,000-500,000	none	Cardiff, Teesside, Coventry
Medium City	6β	Population of 500,000-750,000	none	Leicester, Sheffield, Nottingham
Large City	6γ	Population of 750,000-1,000,000	none	Liverpool, Frankfurt
Metropolis	7β	Collection of large cities, usually has a population of 1,000,000-3,000,000	none	West Midlands, Guangzhou, East Coast Metropolis
Very Large City	7α	Population of 1,000,000-3,000,000	none	Birmingham, Hamburg, Greater Manchester, San Diego
Conurbanation	8α	Population of 3,000,000-10,000,000	none	Berlin, Greater London, Los Angeles, 横浜市 (Yokohama)
Global City	8α/8β	Population of 3,000,000 or more	Indicative of a large influence over the global stage, either through politics, finance or military	London, New York City, Shanghai
Megacity/Megalopolis	8β	Population of 10,000,000-100,000,000	none	Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, Beijing, Cairo
Gigacity	9	Population of 100,000,000 or more	-	N/A
Eperopolis	≥9	Population of 1,000,000,000 or more	-	N/A
Ecumenopolis	>9	Settlement continuously spanning the entire planet	-	N/A
Municipality	varies	Type of subdivision in a region, ranges from a part of a town to whole cities themselves	none
Borough	varies	Type of subdivision for a town or city, most function as towns themselves	none	Westminster
Commune	N/A	Type of division for a country or first level subdivision within a country, it itself if not a population centres but most communes contain population centres	-