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SIZE AND SPACING OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS IN MALDA DISTRICT: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Rural settlement, as man's living and practical space dabs the field since ancient time and structures an indispensable part of human life. A rural settlement, as the purpose of cause and main living place of human culture is the connecting string and life blood of every geographical study. An attempt has been made to analyse the spatial distribution of rural settlement according to their size. The size of settlement helps to identify the population threshold of social amenity, which is an important aspect of location studies as human settlements produce a certain degree of order in their distributional pattern over the space.