Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Some urban districts had a population of just a few hundred and did not have the resources to deliver modern local government services . Sentence 2:Similarly , there were a number of rural districts created in 1894 that had small and irregular areas .
similarly