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 Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 count ...

, 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 (disambiguation), "plas" meaning mansion * Place, a populated place, an area of human settlement ** Incorporated town, Incorporated place (see municipal corporation), a populated area with its own municipal government * Location (geography), an area with definite or indefinite boundaries or a portion of space which has a name in an area

Placenames

* Placé, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France * Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia * Place (Mysia), a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey * Place, New Hampshire, a location in the United States * Place House, 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, 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), ''Places'' (Béla Fleck album), 1988 * Places (Brad Mehldau album), ''Places'' (Brad Mehldau album), 2000 * Places (Casiopea album), ''Places'' (Casiopea album), 2003 * "Places", a song from Ella Henderson's 2022 album ''Everything I Didn't Say'' * Places (Georgie James album), ''Places'' (Georgie James album), 2007 * Places (Jan Garbarek album), ''Places'' (Jan Garbarek album), 1978 * Places (Lea Michele album), ''Places'' (Lea Michele album), 2017 *Places (Martin Solveig song), 2016 *Places (Xenia Ghali song)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

*''Place'', Australian magazine merged into ''The Adelaide Review'' in 2008 * Place (Reddit), or /r/Place, a social experiment by Reddit for April Fool's Day * The Place (London), a dance and performance centre in Camden, London * ''To Place'', a series of books on Iceland by artist Roni Horn * ''Unity of place'', one of the three classical unities for drama derived from Aristotle's ''Poetics'' * ''Places Journal'', a journal of architecture criticism

Gambling

* Craps#Place, in craps a bet that a point number will be rolled before a seven * Place, in horse racing, a parimutuel bet 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), 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, also known as a Place/transition net, a mathematical representation of discrete distributed systems

Society

* Place, a person's social position * Place identity, a group of ideas concerning significance and meanings that particular places have for their inhabitants or users * Place setting, a table setting for a single diner * Sense of place, a phenomenon in which people strongly identify with a particular geographical area or location