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conurbation
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conurbation
a large densely populated urban sprawl formed by the growth and coalescence of individual towns or cities


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According to the United Nations, Mumbai-India's dynamic powerhouse--is set to overtake Tokyo as the world's largest city by 2050, but nowhere is the dizzying velocity of this transformation as tangible as in the largest Chinese conurbations.
Metacities"--the massive conurbations of more than 20 million people above and beyond the scale of megacities--are gaining ground in Asia, Latin America and Africa.
The monthly cost of broadband in most Indian conurbations has dropped to the equivalent of $6.
 
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