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On the basis of forms of shapes, the 5 patterns of rural settlements in the world are: (i) Linear Pattern: (1) These type of settlements have two parallel rows of houses facing each other. (2) In such settlements, houses are located along a road, railway line, river or a canal edge. (3) These type of settlements are common in coastal Kerala, Manipur, Bala Ghat, Mandala and Raigrah districts of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. (4) Linear settlements are also common feature of Nagaland. (5) Fishing villages in the coastal areas also look like linear cluster. (ii) Rectangular Pattern: (1) Such villages develop at the meeting place of two roads. (2) The streets are either parallel or perpendicular to each other and the settlement takes a rectangular shape. (3) These type of settlements are more common in the Northern plain especially in the Ganga-Yamuna Doab. (4) These settlements are also found in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and the states of South India. (iii) Circular Pattern: (1) When the houses are constructed along a bank of a pond or a lake, the settlement takes the shape of circle and is known as circular pattern. (2) These type of settlements are mainly found in Upper Ganga - Yamuna Doab, Trans-Yamuna Region and in parts of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. (iv) Star - like Pattern: (1) A village acquires a star-like pattern when streets radiate from a common centre. (2) Expansion of these villages due to population growth leads to the formation of a double radial pattern. In this pattern, several roads converge star shaped settlements developed by houses built along the roads. (3) This type of pattern is more common in Tamil Nadu and Upper Ganga Plain. (v) T-shaped Pattern: Villages and towns confined between two rivers at their junction or confluence or between bifurcations of two roads eventually result in a T?-shape pattern. Such pattern develops at tri-junction of roads. 
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