Conurbation
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A conurbation is an urban area comprising a number of cities or towns which, through population growth and expansion, have physically merged to form one continuous built up area. It is thus a polycentric form of agglomeration.
A metropolitan area usually combines one or several conurbations with peripheral zones not themselves necessarily urban in character but closely dependent of the conurbation(s) in terms of employment and commerce.
Examples
- Nottingham
- Greater Los Angeles Area
- Greater Manchester
- Greater Mexico City
- The Greater Toronto Area (GTA)
- Helsinki
- Hong Kong
- Mumbai
- Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto
- Randstad
- Rhine-Ruhr
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Stockholm
- Upper Silesian Metropolitan Area
- West Midlands
See also
External links
- Largest cities of the world (municipalities) (http://www.demographia.com/db-world-muni.htm)pl:Konurbacja