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A holistic approach to urban and rural transformation through smart cities and smart villages focuses on improving level of peoples, quality of life, economic growth, and harnessing technology for sustainable development. Generally smart cities aim to improve urban areas through efficient services and infrastructure, while smart villages address rural challenges by leveraging technology for community development and economic opportunities. Over recent decades, peoples (urban and rural) communities are facing numerous economic and social changes and challenges. Some of these challenges have been increasingly addressed through the lenses of technology and digitalization. Smart villages apply technology to address rural challenges, promoting sustainable development, community resilience, and economic opportunities. In this review, we have focus on existing implementations of the smart village concept and the importance of digital/urban facilities for rural area. Basically, education, health, information connectivity, sanitation, electrification, establishment of cottage and small-scale industry etc. are the dimensions of smart villages. The main goal of this paper is to discuss many smart villages' initiative and technologies to improve the rural area.