Is Akwanga a Town Not A City? Let's find Out

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I hail from Akwanga, a local government in Nasarawa State Nigeria. I will not rush to tell us if where I am staying is a village, city, town, urban or rural area but before I round up this post I believe the whole idea and point I will be making will give us a clear insight of the category of place I hail from. I am glad that from my secondary school I was able to solve the problem of identifying if a place is a city, town, rural or urban area. A lot of emphasis was made to us so we can understand the clear differences of these words and am happy those emphasis sticked to my brain and till now I still can clearly remember them and how it works.

I attended three different schools, one among is a day school while the other two are boarding school. It was during my Senior Secondary School (ii) I learnt about all these things in the day school I attended close to my home. My teacher came into the class one specific day and asked us a question if Akwanga is a city or a Town. Because we don't want to feel where we are staying is substandard and underdeveloped, we all shouted Akwanga is a city, He calmly asked us to proof our point and that was were the problem started.

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Every city and town is an urban area but city and town are two different places. I remember he told us again that all villages are categorized under rural area because rural areas are specifically underdeveloped areas. I don't have issue with the rural area but the fact that every city and town is an urban area but cities are different from towns keeps me wondering about what the teacher is trying to proof.

Am glad that knowledge flow well into my brain and I can make clear differences about these places whenever and wherever I am asked to. Urban areas are actually developed areas that comprises of good roads, good sources of water, large number of people, infrastructures, industries and factories. Amongst all these qualities, some places possesses these qualities more than the other. Those that have large number of pupulations, industries, good roads and factories are classified to be cities but those with just good roads and not populated but have good sources of water are classified as town.

Now the differences are clear to me but I still was claiming that Akwanga was a city because I feel there are allot of people with good houses and sources of water in Akwanga so why can't Akwanga be classified as a city? The teacher asked me to go and show him anywhere in Akwanga where there's an industry or factory where goods are produced in large scale as whole sellers for retailers to come and buy. That was how my issue of how to identify a place was settled.

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Akwanga would have been a city but it doesn't have the population, infrastructures and industries for it to become one. The population might really not be a problem but the lack of industries and factories have disqualify it from being one. Despite the issue of industries and factories isn't a major reason to classify wether a place is a Town or a city, I still wouldn't categorize my place to be a city but still a town. I really love my place because I can categorize a town to be in the middle between a city and a village, we are neither living life like the people in the village nor the people in the city we are just in-between.

Nobody wants to leave a hard life so I wouldn't love it if I was staying in the village because of how much price you need to pay to get good water for drinking and bathing. Bikes and vehicles are available in the town and city for us to journey to wherever we want to but that isn't the same when it comes to the rural areas. There are no good roads talk more of machines to run whatever errands we want to run. I can't even imagine having to live for years without network and technology, honestly it would have been hard.

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The town has almost everything to make life comfortable, the hospital, the banks and other valuables that can make living smooth and easy. One of the things I don't like with cities is when it comes to the issue of pollution and crisis all of their own use to be extra of what the towns and rural areas use to face.

I am very much comfortable with the place I am but I will still move to a good and safe city if I have the opportunity to because I cannot refuse to upgrade because of the challenges surrounding my growth, beside we have cities that are calm and living peacefully so I see no reason of remaining comfortable with staying in a town forever. Thank you so much for reading through my entry for Hive Learners weekly contest for Week fifty one edition three.

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