Question

meaning of settlements.........??? ​

Answer 1

Answer:

A settlement is any form of human dwelling, from the smallest house to the largest city.  Oxford Dictionary of Geography. Settlements can vary in size from the very small to extremely large. They can be as small as one house and as large as a megacity, home to tens of millions of people.

Answer 2

Answer:

A place that a group of people have built and live in, where few or no people lived before; the process of people starting to live in a place.

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