Megacity
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A megacity is usually defined as a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of ten million people.<ref>"How Big Can Cities Get?" New Scientist Magazine, 17 June 2006, page 41.</ref> A megacity can be a single metropolitan area or two or more metropolitan areas that converge. The terms conurbation, metropolis and metroplex are also applied to the latter.
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See also
- Global city
- Financial centre
- Amalgamation (politics)
- Arcology
- Consolidated city-county
- Ekistics
- Principles of Intelligent Urbanism
- Urban sprawl
- List of metropolitan areas by population
- List of largest cities throughout history
- List of agglomerations by population
- List of urban agglomerations by population (United Nations)
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