CONURBATION

Conurbation

A "conurbation" is a region comprising a number of cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area. In most cases, a conurbation is a polycentric urban agglomeration, in which transportation has developed to link areas to create a single urban labour market or travel to work area.

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conurbation

Noun

  1. a continuous aggregation of built-up urban communities created as a result of urban sprawl


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