villages in England are tiny and usually quite protected, so no, they would not become cities for a very long time. Having said that there are a large amount of housing estates being put in as close to the lines as possible so give it a couple decades and who knows

Yes a few times.
I already watched several villages merge into a town and then later fuse in with a city,

One of the places was just 3 scattered villages, one of them had a tiny local supermarket, the other two had nothing.. 30 years later, they are part of a larger city (by my demographic) and its like big highways and lots of shops and so forth now.

Really odd to see that old field now being a highway.


As for size.. a village here could be 2-5k pop, in China it could be half a million.

Never. One or two that became small towns I suppose, but not cities. I grew up in a village with a population that fluctuated between 300 and 500 over the past 1,000 years. My parents still live there. There have been so many planning and development restrictions to ensure it doesn't become a suburb of nearby towns, and I'm glad about that. It's reassuring somehow to go back once or twice a year to this quaint, picturesque place that never really changes.

London and Greater London is essentially lots of absorbed villages and towns.

I've seen Towns get City Status but no Village into city in my lifetime.

Possibly Milton Keynes might be an example of sudden expansion.

Where I live in Canada there is no set population threshold for a town to upgrade to a city. For example the "city" of Dryden, Ontario only has a population of about 7300 people. Historically the threshold was either 15,000 or 25,000 depending on whether it was already a town or just a municipality.

For me though:
<500 : Hamlet
500 - 5000 : Village
5000 - 25,000 : Town
25,000 + : City

The most recent example of a town becoming a city is Richmond Hill, which upgraded to city status in 2019, but its population was already about 200,000 at that point.

Originally posted by Enterprofilenamehere:

Where I live in Canada there is no set population threshold for a town to upgrade to a city. For example the "city" of Dryden, Ontario only has a population of about 7300 people. Historically the threshold was either 15,000 or 25,000 depending on whether it was already a town or just a municipality.

For me though:
<500 : Hamlet
500 - 5000 : Village
5000 - 25,000 : Town
25,000 + : City

That is from your perspective. But as I said earlier, it depends on the demograhics you live in.
In China, nobody would call 25000 inhabitants a city, but in Norway, it will be.

Historically.. it always changed depending on timeframe and region.
It is much better to instead discribe them in a less fixed manner.

Ie.

Hamlet - Tiny settlement
Village - Settlement/residential community/etc
Town - Build up settlement with its own local goverment and defined borders
City - A large "town" with porportional to region, a large number of people living close together.
Metropolian - "large city" In many cases grown together cities/towns that are the hubs of the regions.

Yes my hometown of 4900. They built new tacoma narrows bridge and all the seattle people moved over

Originally posted by HypersleepyNaputunia:

Yes my hometown of 4900. They built new tacoma narrows bridge and all the seattle people moved over

Hope it doesn't collapse spectacularly in high winds.

Youre right there were 3 bridges
The first blew over, the second is still there and the new 3rd one sit side by side

First time I see the word "Hamlet" without being refered to that ancient book 🤔

Yeah, usually takes decades but its kind of impressive and also a shock

Sadly, yes. I'm from what used to be a very small town but it's blown up because of tourism. Makes me sad because the deer and mountain lions used to come into town at night but they don't anymore because now there's too many drunks and UrCars and stuff.

Originally posted by Candyy ♡:

Have you ever seen a village turn into a city?
Some may think this is a thing of the past but in reality is not, well, at least where I live...

Where I live, a place is considered "village" if there is less than 10000 habitantes, no matter the size 😀

I guess on other countries is different? 🤔

I visited some places that do have 9900 people living there (aprox v:), maybe in the near future they become a city... Or not, maybe the remain village forever...

I am sometimes surprised to see people calling a city with 30000 living there a village, like if 30000 people is nothing, I have even seen few people on the internet calling the richest city in my country a village 🤨

Very few times but yes, however the opposite is true as well, cities turning into villages due more deaths than births.