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| 13623375518 | settlements | Small communities that are started in a new place | 0 | |
| 13623375519 | Consumer Services | Businesses that provide services primarily to individual consumers, including retail services and education, health, and leisure services | 1 | |
| 13623377471 | Business Services | Services that primarily meet the needs of other businesses, including professional, financial, and transportation services | 2 | |
| 13623379389 | Public Services | Services offered by the government to provide security and protection for citizens and businesses. | 3 | |
| 13623382667 | Central Place Theory | A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther. | 4 | |
| 13623382668 | Market Area | The area surrounding a central place, from which people are attracted to use the place's goods and services. | 5 | |
| 13623384510 | range | The maximum distance people are willing to travel to use a service. | 6 | |
| 13623386372 | threshold | The minimum number of people needed to support the service | 7 | |
| 13623389721 | rank-size rule | A pattern of settlements in a country, such that the nth largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement. | 8 | |
| 13623394783 | primate city | The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement. | 9 | |
| 13623398392 | Gravity Model | A model that holds that the potential use of a service at a particular location is directly related to the number of people in a location and inversely related to the distance people must travel to reach the service. | 10 | |
| 13623402405 | periodic market | a collection of individual vendors who come together to offer goods and services in a location on specified days | 11 |
