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 f ...

, 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 counte ...

, a populated area lacking its own municipal government * "Place", a type of street or road name ** Often implies a dead end (street) 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 of people living in a particular location, place. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of Dwelling, dwellings gro ...

** Incorporated place (see

municipal corporation 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 o ...

), a populated area with its own municipal government *

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

, 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

Facilities and structures

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

Prideaux Place Prideaux Place is a Listed building, grade I listed Elizabethan architecture, 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 ...

, an Elizabethan mansion in Padstow, Cornwall, England * The Place (London), a dance and performance centre in London, England

People with the name

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

* Places (Martin Solveig song), 2016 * Places (Xenia Ghali song)

Albums

* ''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'' * ''Places'' (Georgie James album), 2007 * ''Places'' (Jan Garbarek album), 1978 * ''Places'' (Lea Michele album), 2017 * ''The Place'' (album), a 2003 music album

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

*''Place'', Australian magazine merged into '' The Adelaide Review'' in 2008 * 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 * ''The Place'' (film), a 2017 Italian film

Gambling

* , 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