urban areas
Densely populated places
Urban areas are places where people live in concentrated populations—cities and their surrounding developed zones, as distinct from rural or agricultural land.
The term appears often in policy, planning, and demographic contexts: Urban areas account for most of the country's economic output.
What qualifies as urban varies by country, typically based on population density or administrative designation.
- population densityInhabitants per unit area
- infrastructureBasic physical systems
- gentrificationWealthy influx displacing locals
- zoningSectioning areas by use
- zoning lawsMunicipal property regulations
cityscape · city lights · housing inequality · sustainability · metropolitan · city council · commerce · street vendors · food trucks · climate resilience · skyscraper · industry · municipal services · parking meters · block parties · financial district · pollution control · noise pollution
- Puerto RicoSan Juan, Puerto Rico, Carolina, Old San Juan, Arecibo
- American landscapeprairies, plains, Great Plains, heartland, Midwest
- regional featurestopography, coastlines, valleys, plateaus, wetlands
- outside worldnature, outdoors, wilderness, environment, city
- human geographycultural landscape, demographics, migration, demography, urbanization
- Caribbean geographyHaiti, Dominican Republic, Hispaniola, Santo Domingo, Port-au-Prince
urban areasrural areas
Sparsely populated regions
countryside · farmland · villages · rural communities · agricultural areas
urban areaswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
forests · open country · woodlands · untouched nature · pristine nature
urban areasrural communities
Non-urban population centers
farming communities · pastoral settings · country life · small-town America · heartland