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El pueblo donde vivo es muy pequeño.

El pueblo donde vivo es muy pequeño.
The village where I live is very small.
From Lesson 171:The place where (donde)·Spanish (Spain)

Questions & Answers about El pueblo donde vivo es muy pequeño.

Why is there no accent mark on donde?
In Spanish, question words like dónde (where) only have an accent mark when they are used to ask a question. Here, donde is simply connecting parts of the sentence ("the village where I live"), so it is written without the accent mark.
I've seen pueblo translated as "people". Why does it mean "village" here?
The word pueblo has two common meanings: a small town or village, and a group of people or a nation. You can tell it means "village" here because the sentence talks about a physical place where someone lives and describes its physical size.
Why do we use es instead of está to describe the village?
We use es (from the verb ser) because being small (pequeño) is a core, defining characteristic of the village. You would use estar if you were talking about its location, such as "El pueblo está en la montaña" (The village is in the mountains).
Is it wrong to add "yo" and say donde yo vivo?
It isn't grammatically wrong, but the yo (I) is unnecessary. The "-o" ending of the verb vivo already tells us exactly who is living there. Native speakers usually drop words like yo unless they want to add special emphasis or contrast.

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