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populated places
Places or areas with clustered or scattered buildings and a permanent human population. [USGS Feature Class Definitions <http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/feature_class.htm>]
This category is also used for agricultural colonies, communes, communities, hamlets, homesteads, locales, localities, metropolitan areas, populated localities, ppl, pueblos, with religious facilities for religious populated places, settlements, suburbs, and villages