Town

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Left to right, from top: Reading in England, Porvoo in Finland, Lemgo in Germany, Davos in Switzerland, Skalica in Slovakia, Mecca in Saudi Arabia (1880s), Fátima in Portugal, Viljandi in Estonia

A town is a type of a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities,^[1] though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.