inhabited area

/ɪnˈhæbɪtɪd ˈɛəriə/

a place where people live

The village is a small inhabited area in the mountains.

This sentence describes a village as a place where people live in the mountains.

general

a region or location where people reside

The government plans to develop the remote inhabited areas.

This refers to government initiatives to improve living conditions in areas where people live.

The map shows all the inhabited areas along the coast.

This indicates that the map highlights regions where people live along the coastline.

This phrase is commonly used in geography, urban planning, and environmental studies.

Collocations

densely inhabited areaa place with a high population densitysparsely inhabited areaa place with few residentsurban inhabited areaa city or town where people live

a place with no human residents

This phrase is frequently used in geography and urban planning to describe human settlement patterns.

Do not use 'inhabited area' when 'settlement' or 'population center' would suffice in formal writing.

The term 'inhabited' comes from the Latin 'inhabitare' (to inhabit), and 'area' from Latin 'area' (open space).

This phrase is often used in contrast to 'uninhabited' to describe places where human settlement exists.

inhabited

having residents

adjective

area

a region or space

noun

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