populated area

Questions about populated area

What does populated area mean?

populated area means "a geographical area constituting a city or town".

What is another word for populated area?

Close synonyms include urban area. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is populated area a common word?

populated area is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.