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Which form of rural settlement pattern develops along roads, railway lines, rivers and canals in the world?

Linear pattern

It is the form of rural settlement distinguished on the basis of form or shapes of settlement. In such settlements, houses are located along a road, railway line, river, canal edge of a valley or along a levee.


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