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# Namespaces
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In GitLab, a *namespace* provides one place to organize your related projects. Projects in one namespace are separate from projects in other namespaces,
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which means you can use the same name for projects in different namespaces.
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GitLab has two types of namespaces:
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- A *Personal* namespace, which is based on your username and provided to you when you create your account.
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- If you change your username, the project and namespace URLs in your account also change. Before you change your username,
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read about [repository redirects ](../project/repository/index.md#what-happens-when-a-repository-path-changes ).
- You cannot create subgroups in a personal namespace.
- Groups in your namespace do not inherit your namespace permissions and group features.
- All the *Personal Projects* created will fall under the scope of this namespace.
- A *group* or *subgroup* namespace:
- You can create multiple subgroups to manage multiple projects.
- You can change the URL of group and subgroup namespaces.
- You can configure settings specifically for each subgroup and project in the namespace.
- When you create a subgroup, it inherits some of the parent group settings. You can view these in the subgroup **Settings** .
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To determine whether you're viewing a group or personal namespace, you can view the URL. For example:
| Namespace for | URL | Namespace |
| ------------- | --- | --------- |
| A user named `alex` . | `https://gitlab.example.com/alex` | `alex` |
| A group named `alex-team` . | `https://gitlab.example.com/alex-team` | `alex-team` |
| A group named `alex-team` with a subgroup named `marketing` . | `https://gitlab.example.com/alex-team/marketing` | `alex-team/marketing` |