Reply #82: Here's one example:

[Guaranteed]

Admittedly from the Internet.

I looked up "villager" images and found this reference to a "villager" from Hoi An:

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Here is some brief info on Hoi An. It's referred to as a "small town" by one of its natives, and by a visitor- it's been there for centuries as well, and was a major port. It is not a village.

http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/7148/index.html

My point is that I don't think people typically use the word in its official sense, weighing out small differences in populations or culture. No one would refer to a large city as a village, but it seems that just about everything else can be referred to as one, if the people look "right," and if there is enough distance between the speaker and the place/people being referred to.