Place may refer to:

Geography

Place (United States Census Bureau) The United States Census Bureau defines a place as a concentration of population which has a name, is locally recognized, and is not part of any other place. A place typically has a residential nucleus and a closely spaced street pattern, and it fr ...

, defined as any concentration of population **

Census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

, a populated area lacking its own

municipal A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...

government * "Place", a type of

street or road name A street name is an identifying name given to a street or road. In toponymic terminology, names of streets and roads are referred to as hodonyms (from Greek ‘road’, and ‘name’). The street name usually forms part of the address (t ...

** Often implies a

dead end (street) A dead end, also known as a cul-de-sac (, from French for 'bag-bottom'), no through road or no exit road, is a street with only one inlet or outlet. The term "dead end" is understood in all varieties of English, but the official terminology ...

or cul-de-sac * Place, based on the Cornish word "plas" meaning

mansion A mansion is a large dwelling house. The word itself derives through Old French from the Latin word ''mansio'' "dwelling", an abstract noun derived from the verb ''manere'' "to dwell". The English word '' manse'' originally defined a property l ...

* Place, a populated place, an area of

human settlement In geography, statistics and archaeology, a settlement, locality or populated place is a community in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of ci ...

** Incorporated place (see

municipal corporation A municipal corporation is the legal term for a local governing body, including (but not necessarily limited to) cities, counties, towns, townships, charter townships, villages, and boroughs. The term can also be used to describe municipally owne ...

), a populated area with its own municipal government *

Location (geography) In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

, an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area

Placenames

Placé Placé () is a commune in the Mayenne department in north-western France. See also *Communes of Mayenne The following is a list of the 240 communes of the Mayenne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunali ...

, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France *

Plače Plače () is a small settlement in the Vipava Valley in the Municipality of Ajdovščina in the Littoral region of Slovenia. Together with the neighbouring villages of Male Žablje and Vipavski Križ it forms the local community A local community ...

, a small settlement in Slovenia *

Place (Mysia) Placia or Plakia or Placie or Plakie ( grc, Πλακίη), also known as Placa or Plaka or Place or Plake (Πλάκη), was a town of ancient Mysia, on the coast of the Propontis, at the foot of the Mysian Olympus east of Cyzicus. It was a Pelasgia ...

, a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey * Place, New Hampshire, a location in the United States *

Place House Place House is a Grade I listed building located in Fowey, Cornwall, England. Home of the Treffry family since the thirteenth century, the original structure was a fifteenth-century tower, which was defended against the French in 1475 by Elizabet ...

, a 16th-century mansion largely remodelled in the 19th century, in Fowey, Cornwall * Place House, a 19th-century mansion on the site of a medieval priory, in St Anthony in Roseland, Cornwall *

Prideaux Place Prideaux Place is a grade I listed Elizabethan country house in the parish of Padstow, Cornwall, England. It has been the home of the Prideaux family for over 400 years. The house was built in 1592 by Sir Nicholas Prideaux (1550–1627), a dist ...

, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall

People with the name

* Place (surname), people with the surname ''Place''

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* ''Places'' (Béla Fleck album), 1988 * ''Places'' (Brad Mehldau album), 2000 * ''Places'' (Casiopea album), 2003 * "Places", a song from Ella Henderson's 2022 album ''

Everything I Didn't Say ''Everything I Didn't Say'' is the second studio album by English singer and songwriter Ella Henderson. It was released on 11 March 2022 by Major Tom's / Asylum Records and Warner Music, marking Henderson's first full-length album since her 2 ...

'' * ''Places'' (Georgie James album), 2007 * ''Places'' (Jan Garbarek album), 1978 * ''Places'' (Lea Michele album), 2017 *

Places (Martin Solveig song) "Places" is a song by French DJ and record producer Martin Solveig featuring vocals from Norwegian singer/songwriter Ina Wroldsen. It was released as a digital download in France on 25 November 2016 through Spinnin' Records and Big Beat. The son ...

, 2016 *

Places (Xenia Ghali song) "Places" is a song recorded, written, and produced by Greek DJ Xenia Ghali, featuring vocals by singer-songwriter Raquel Castro. The track became Ghali's second single to reach number one on the ''Billboard'' Dance Club Songs chart in its May 6, ...

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

*''Place'', Australian magazine merged into ''

The Adelaide Review ''The Adelaide Review'' (AR) was a monthly print arts magazine and dynamic website in Adelaide, South Australia. It was first published in 1984, but gained standing after one of its writers, Christopher Pearson, took it over in 1985. In March ...

'' in 2008 *

Place (Reddit) r/place was a collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the social networking site Reddit on April Fools' Day 2017 and repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022. The 2017 experiment involved an online canvas located at a subred ...

, or /r/Place, a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day *

The Place (London) The Place is a dance and performance centre in Duke's Road near Euston in the London Borough of Camden. It is the home of London Contemporary Dance School and the Robin Howard Dance Theatre, and formerly the Richard Alston Dance Company. Histor ...

, a dance and performance centre in Camden, London * ''To Place'', a series of books on Iceland by artist

Roni Horn Roni Horn (born September 25, 1955) is an American visual artist and writer. The granddaughter of Eastern European immigrants, she was born in New York City, where she lives and works. She is currently represented by Xavier Hufkens in Brussels an ...

* ''Unity of place'', one of the three

classical unities The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities represent a prescriptive theory of dramatic tragedy that was introduced in Italy in the 16th century and was influential for three centuries. The three unities are: #''unity of action' ...

for drama derived from Aristotle's ''Poetics'' * ''

Places Journal Place may refer to: Geography * Place (United States Census Bureau), defined as any concentration of population ** Census-designated place, a populated area lacking its own municipal government * "Place", a type of street or road name ** Often ...

'', a journal of

architecture criticism Architecture criticism is the critique of architecture. Everyday criticism relates to published or broadcast critiques of buildings, whether completed or not, both in terms of news and other criteria. In many cases, criticism amounts to an assessmen ...

Gambling

* Craps#Place, in craps a bet that a point number will be rolled before a seven * Place, in horse racing, a

parimutuel bet Parimutuel betting or pool betting is a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool; taxes and the "house-take" or "vigorish" are deducted, and payoff odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all winnin ...

that a horse will finish first or within a predetermined number of positions of first. In North America, this would mean finishing first or second.

Mathematics

Place (mathematics) Algebraic number theory is a branch of number theory that uses the techniques of abstract algebra to study the integers, rational numbers, and their generalizations. Number-theoretic questions are expressed in terms of properties of algebraic ob ...

, an equivalence class of absolute values of an integral domain or field * In place-value, or positional notation, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral *

Petri net A Petri net, also known as a place/transition (PT) net, is one of several mathematical modeling languages for the description of distributed systems. It is a class of discrete event dynamic system. A Petri net is a directed bipartite graph that ...

, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems

Society

* Place, a person's social position *

Place identity Place identity or place-based identity refers to a cluster of ideas about place and identity in the fields of geography, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, environmental psychology, ecocriticism and urban sociology/ecological s ...

, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants or users * Place setting, a

table setting Table setting (laying a table) or place setting refers to the way to set a table with tableware—such as eating utensils and for serving and eating. The arrangement for a single diner is called a place setting. It is also the layout in which ...

for a single diner *

Sense of place The term sense of place has been used in many different ways. It is a multidimensional, complex construct used to characterize the relationship between people and spatial settings. It is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some ...

, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location