Suburb vs Townships - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between suburb and townships

is that suburb is the area on the periphery of a city or large town while townships is plural of lang=en.

(en noun)

The area on the periphery of a city or large town.

* Hallam

[London] could hardly have contained less than thirty or forty thousand souls within its walls; and the suburbs were very populous.

(by extension) The outer part; the environment.

* Jeremy Taylor

the suburbs of sorrow

* Milton

the suburb of their straw-built citadel

(AU, NZ) Any subdivision of a conurbation, not necessarily on the periphery.

* suburbia * suburbian * suburban * burb

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