Conurbation

A conurbation is an urban whole made up of several urban cores (or Ville S) whose suburbs end up meeting.

Etymology

Word formed starting from two Latin elements, cum , which mean with , and urbs which means city. It is thus a “town suit”.

Examples of conurbation

South Africa

Since the end of the year 1990, many municipalities were made up starting from conurbations. Among those, one can quote:

Germany

France

Japan

  • Tōkyō - Yokohama - Kawasaki - Saitama which with its 34,47 million inhabitants is the conurbation most populated in the world.

Netherlands

Transnational

Simple: Conurbation

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