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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