Place may refer to:

Geography

* Place (United States Census Bureau), 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, suc ...

, 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 ...

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 in which people live. The complexity of a settlement can range from a minuscule number of dwellings grouped together to the largest of citi ...

** 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 ...

), 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 a ...

, 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 Vipavski Križ (; it, Santa Croce di Aidussi ...

, 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 Pelasgi ...

, a town of ancient Mysia, Anatolia, now in Turkey *

Place, New Hampshire Place is an unincorporated community in the town of Farmington, Strafford County, New Hampshire New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont ...

, 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 St Anthony in Roseland is a village and a former parish in Cornwall, England, in the United Kingdom. It is a small settlement on the Roseland Peninsula. At Trewince is a house of five bays and two storeys built in 1750. There is a lighthouse ...

, 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), 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 * 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 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'', 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 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), 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 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