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 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 gov ...

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 odonyms or hodonyms (from Ancient Greek 'road', and 'name', i.e., the Doric and Aeolic form of 'name ...

** Often implies a

dead end (street) A dead end, also known as a ''cul-de-sac'' (; , ), a no-through road or a no-exit road, is a street with only one combined inlet and outlet. Dead ends are added to roads in urban planning designs to limit traffic in residential areas. Some d ...

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 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 intercommun ...

, a commune in Pays de la Loire, Paris, France * Plače, a small settlement in Slovenia *

Place (Mysia) Placia or Plakia or Placie or Plakie (), 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 Pelasgian town; in this ...

, 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, United States. Place is located on New Hampshire Route 11 New Hampshire Route 11 is a east–west state highway in New Hampshire, running comp ...

, a location in the United States

Facilities and structures

Place House Place is a Fortified House and 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 ...

, 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 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 St Anthony's ...

, 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) 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. Histo ...

, a dance and performance centre in London, England

People with the name

Place (surname) People: * Etta Place (c.1878–?), companion of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid * Francis Place (1771–1854), English social reformer * Godfrey Place (1921–1994), British naval officer * Jacob C. Place (1828–1881), American politician * ...

, people with the surname ''Place''

Arts, entertainment, and media

Music

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 s ...

, 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 ...

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 ''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 and Asylum Records, marking Henderson's first full-length album since her 2014 debut '' C ...

'' * ''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 ''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 *

r/place r/place was a recurring collaborative project and social experiment hosted on the content aggregator site Reddit. Originally launched on April Fools' Day 2017, it has since been repeated again on April Fools' Day 2022 and on July 20, 2023. ...

, 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 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'', 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 ...

* ''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) 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 Positional notation, also known as place-value notation, positional numeral system, or simply place value, usually denotes the extension to any radix, base of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system (or decimal, decimal system). More generally, a posit ...

, the position occupied by a digit in a numeral *

Petri net A Petri net, also known as a place/transition net (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 t ...

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

Society

* Place, a person's

social position Social position is the position of an individual in a given society and culture. A given position (for example, the occupation of ''priest'') may belong to many individuals. Definition Stanley Wasserman and Katherine Faust Stanley cautioned ...

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, environmental psychology, ecocriticism and urban sociology/ecological sociology. Place identity ...

, 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 (furniture), 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 ...

for a single diner *

Sense of place The term sense of place refers to 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 do not, while to others it is a f ...

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