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Characteristics: (i) The characteristics of rural settlement is a compact built up area of houses. (ii) In this type of village the general living area is distinct and separated from the surrounding farms and pastures. (iii) The closely built up area and its intervening streets present some recognisable pattern geometric shapes such as rectangular, radical, linear etc. (iv) Such settlements are found in fertile alluvial plains and in north-eastern states. (v) Sometime people live in compact village for security reasons, such as in Bundelkhand and Nagaland. (vi) In Rajasthan, scarcity of water has necessitated compact settlement for; maximum utilization of available water resources.
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