(a) In what four ways does a town… | Geography

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(a) In what four ways does a town differ from a village?

(b) Describe with examples three functions which a town may perform for a village

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(a) Four ways a town differs from a village

Town	Village
Has a large population.	Has a small population.
People work mainly in non-agricultural jobs (industry, trade, services).	People are engaged mainly in farming and other primary activities.
Has many, varied functions (administrative, commercial, industrial, educational).	Has few, simple functions.
Well supplied with social amenities (pipe-borne water, electricity, hospitals, good roads, tall buildings).	Few amenities; mostly small, scattered houses.

(A town also covers a larger built-up area and has higher-order services than a village.)

(b) Three functions a town performs for a village (with examples)

Market/commercial function: the town acts as a market centre where villagers sell their farm produce and buy manufactured goods they cannot get in the village (e.g. Onitsha or Kano markets serving surrounding villages).
Service function (health, education, administration): the town provides higher-order services such as hospitals, secondary schools, banks and government offices that serve the villagers (e.g. villagers travel to a nearby town for a general hospital or a bank).
Employment and industrial function: the town offers jobs in industries, offices and services, and processes the raw materials produced in the villages (e.g. a cotton-ginnery or cocoa-processing town buying and processing produce from nearby farming villages).

(a) In what four ways does a town differ from a village? (b) Describe with examples three functions which a town may perform for a village