localities

Particular geographic areas

Localities are particular places or areas, especially as defined by their geography or boundaries.

The word often appears in official or administrative contexts: The new regulations will affect all localities within the county.

It can also simply mean neighborhoods or districts: Prices vary across different localities.

urban

metropolis

Large important city

district · neighborhood · suburb · municipal · civic · infrastructure · gentrification · urbanization · cosmopolitan · highrise

places

site

Designated location

surroundings · area · quarter · sector · precinct · enclave · hub · destination · landmark · address

geographic

region

Indefinite bounded area

zone · latitude · longitude · coordinates · topography · climate · hemisphere · inland · coastal · highland

community

neighborhood

Residential area nearby

townsfolk · citizenry · population · commune · settlement · enclave · collective · communal · parish · congregation

rural

village

Small rural community

pastoral · provincial · bucolic · rustic · farmland · agricultural · homesteads · settlement · outpost · parish

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Opposites
geographic scope

localitiesnation

Sovereign political entity

world · globe · entirety · universe · totality

specificity vs. abstraction

localitieseverywhere

In all places

nowhere · vastness · distances · generalities · universals

Family

local, location, locale, locals, locality, allocate, allocation, locations, localized

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