The Village

A village is a human settlement or community, usually numbering no more than a few hundred residents.

The Village or Village may also refer to:

Forms of administration

• Village (Taiwan), the basic unit of Taiwanese administrative subdivision
• Village (United States), a type of administrative division at the local government level
  • Village (New Jersey), a form of municipal government
  • Village (Pennsylvania), a geographic area within a larger political subdivision
  • Village (Oregon), a model of local governance
  • Village (Vermont), a named community within the boundaries of an incorporated town
• Villages of Brunei, third-level administrative division of Brunei
• Village (Philippines), smallest administrative division
  • Also, a subdivision

Places

Canada

• The Village, Newfoundland and Labrador, a nickname for Victoria
• Village Island, in the Johnstone Strait region of the British Columbia Coast

Ireland

• The Village, Cloughjordan, an eco-village
• The Village, a commonly used name for Malahide Cricket Club Ground

United Kingdom

• Village (Barking and Dagenham ward), an electoral ward of Barking and Dagenham London Borough Council created in 1964
• Village (Merton ward), an electoral ward of Merton London Borough Council created in 1978
• Village (Southwark ward), a former electoral ward of Southwark London Borough Council that existed from 2002 to 2018
• Village (Stockton-on-Tees ward), an electoral ward of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England
• Village (Trafford ward), a former electoral ward of Trafford, Greater Manchester, England
• The Village, East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
• The Village, an area near Donegall Road in Belfast, Northern Ireland
• The Village, a settlement in Windsor Great Park, England

United States

• Village, Arkansas
• Village, Virginia
• Greenwich Village, New York City
• The Village, Jersey City, New Jersey
• The Village, Oklahoma
• The Village at Corte Madera, a shopping center in Corte Madera, California
• The Village Shopping Center, Gary, Indiana
• The Villages, Florida
• Village Arcade, a shopping center in Rice Village, Houston, Texas
• Village of La Jolla, California
• The Village at Castle Pines, Colorado

Elsewhere

• Burnside Village in Glenside, South Australia, colloquially known as "The Village"
• The Village, a zone in San Ġwann, Malta

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• The Village (1953 film), a Swiss drama film
• The Village (1968 film), Irish documentary; see Paul Hockings
• The Village (2004 film), an American period thriller film
• The Village (2015 film), a Georgian drama film
• The Village, a Japanese drama film featuring Ryusei Yokohama
• The Village (Animation), a British short animated film.

Music

• Village (album), 1997 album by jazz trumpeter Wallace Roney
• "The Village", a song by New Order on the 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies
• "Villages", a song from the 2012 album A Is for Alpine by Alpine
• "The Village", a 2017 single by Wrabel

Literature

• The Village (Anand novel), a 1910 novel by Mulk Raj Anand
• The Village (Bunin novel), a 1939 novel by Ivan Bunin
• The Village (Hinde novel), a 1966 novel by Thomas Hinde
• The Village (Grigorovich novel), an 1846 novel by Dmitry Grigorovich
• The Village (Lalwani novel), by Nikita Lalwani
• "The Village" (poem), by George Crabbe
• "The Village" (short story), by Kate Wilhelm

Periodicals

• Village (magazine), an Irish current affairs magazine founded by Vincent Browne
• The Village Voice, an American news and culture paper

Television

• The Village (1993 TV series), British radio and television series
• The Village (2013 TV series), BBC television series
• The Village (2019 TV series), an American drama television series on NBC
• The Village (2023 TV series), an Indian TV series
• The Village (The Prisoner), the fictional setting of the 1960s UK television series, The Prisoner
• The Village: Achiara's Secret, South Korean drama series

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• The Village (Sirius XM), a radio channel
• Village (board game)
• Resident Evil Village (2021 video game) "Village", a video game in the Resident Evil franchise

Companies and organizations

• Elder village, a type of organization providing living-services support to the elderly
• MSN Games, formerly known as The Village, a gaming web site
• The Village (Hartford, Connecticut), a social service agency
• The Village (music venue), in Dublin
• The Village (studio), a recording studio in West Los Angeles (Santa Monica), California
• Village Community Co-operative, a multiple occupancy permaculture project in Adelaide, Australia
• Village Fair, an annual music festival in Bathurst, Australia
• Village Food Stores (1987–95), a chain of supermarkets in New Brunswick, Canada

Other uses

• Mark Village (born 1991), Canadian soccer player
• Potemkin village, a façade meant to exaggerate the political and/or economic wellness of a situation

See also

• Village Creek (disambiguation)
• Village Green (disambiguation)
• Villager (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with The Village
• All pages with titles beginning with Village
• All pages with titles containing village