AP Human Geography Unit 7 (Economic Human Geography- Urban Hierarchy: From Hamlet to Megalopolis) Review

Hamlet

Composed of a small component of a larger settlement or municipality

City

Composed of an even larger settlement in the ten and hundreds of thousands.

Village

Composed of clustered human settlement of hundreds to a few thousands.

Town

Composed of larger settlement that has thousands of residents.

Megalopolis

Massive agglomeration of supercities

Statistical Area

Megalopolis

Metropolitan Area

Surrounding landscape that a larger City influences heavily