Place, in geography, refers to a secondary agglomeration of a municipality smaller than a town "Villa (population)") and larger than a village, according to the fourth meaning of the Dictionary of the Spanish language, edited by the Royal Spanish Academy; For example, Don Quixote "Don Quixote (character)") lived in a "place." Outside of this specific meaning, it also has a more general one, that of the first and second meanings, according to which it denotes the situation of a population center of any size (city, town, town "Villa (population)") or village), and even an uninhabited area.[1]​.

In the gazetteers of Spain, "place" was one of the categories assigned to singular population entities, a category understood as the "qualification granted or traditionally recognized" to the entities, collected until 1996.

The regulations published for the preparation of the 1930 gazetteer (order and instruction of March 8, 1930)[2] define the place as.

The United States Census Bureau defines the term as a place of concentration of population. The types of places defined by the Census Bureau are: incorporated places, such as city, town, or village, and census-designated place (CDP), which resembles a city, town, or village but lacks its own government. The population concentration must have a name, be recognized locally, and not be part of any other place. Places usually have a residential core, a network of closely spaced streets, and often have urban, commercial, or other types of land use centers. The incorporated places are defined by the laws of the states that are given: the Census Bureau designates the criteria to delimit community development projects. A small town in the middle of the countryside or the densely populated fringe of a large city cannot be a place defined by the Census Bureau.[3]​.