#small settlement
- Pseudo-town — A pejorative, ironic, or humorous term used to designate a small rural locality, commune, or settlement that has recently acquired the official administrative status of a town, but retains its rural structure, mindset, lack of utilities, and village-like appearance. In urban sociology, the word describes the structural discrepancy between a locality's official legal title and its underdeveloped economic, infrastructural, or cultural reality.