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  • un “fort” is not a “city”, neither a town. There are towns with ex-forts as centers, but even they don’t call these ex-fortresses “towns”

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    Communes vary widely in size and area, from large sprawling cities with millions of inhabitants like Paris, to small hamlets with only a handful of inhabitants. Communes typically are based on pre-existing villages and facilitate local governance. All communes have names, but not all named geographic areas or groups of people residing together are communes (“lieu dit” or “bourg”), the difference residing in the lack of administrative powers.

    A town is a type of a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.

    A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town

    village sounds more appropriate for these settlements?