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What is a township?

What is a township? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The territory of a town.
  2. (US, Canada) a subdivision of a county.
  3. (South Africa, Pre 1994) An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.
  4. (South Africa, Post 1994) A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.
  5. (Australia, New Zealand) a small town.
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Back in the car, we trundle down the cobbled laneway leading to the township.
But what he found when he went to Johannesburg convinced him that an entire album could be built around township jive.
Most popular music, however, tends to come from South Africa, with its rich history of township jive.
Around the temple are other structures in ruins, and clearly, this was once a township throbbing with pilgrims and the chant of mantras.
The localities are arranged alphabetically by county and then by township within each county.
The move involves the north-central area of the township abutting Murrysville.

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