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Question
Give a geographical reason:
Not all rural settlements change into urban settlements.
Solution
- The area between rural and urban is called the rural-urban fringe.
- Villages are beyond the rural-urban fringe, and cities have different land use patterns.
- In villages, the land is mainly used for agriculture and related activities such as permanent pasture, grazing land, miscellaneous tree crops and groves, fallow land, etc.
- In city areas, land is mainly used for industries, residential purposes, recreation, transportation, etc.
- Since the villages are far from the city, they maintain their distinct identity and do not change into an urban settlement.
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