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township

noun as in municipality

noun as in town

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At dawn, the three young men hitched a ride from a truck driver and made it to Aung Ban, a township in the southern Shan state.

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He met children from the Ocean View, Masiphumelele and Langa townships, many of whom have challenging home lives - rugby is used to support them as well as unite communities and mentor schoolchildren.

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Ms Adestahina has previously said she was born in the South African township of Soweto.

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In interviews Ms Adetshina said she was born in Soweto - the South African township next to Johannesburg - and grew up in Cape Town.

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Then in late June, police in Chiapas discovered the bullet-riddled bodies of 19 men in and around an abandoned dump truck on a dirt road in the township of La Concordia.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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