A URLconf is a set of patterns used by Django to match URLs to views. It is a Python module that contains a set of patterns used by the Django framework to map URLs to views.
A view is a callable within a Django application that takes a web request and returns a web response. It is the code logic responsible for processing a request and returning a response.
For example, if a user visits the URL www.example.com/contact, the URLconf will match the URL to the contact view, which will process the request and return the appropriate response.