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Question 1

What is the difference between a metropolitan region and a conurbation?

Accepted Answer

A metropolitan region has a single dominant core city with integrated suburbs, while a conurbation is a polycentric urban area formed by the merging of multiple independent cities of comparable size without a single dominant center.

Question 2

Which is the largest megalopolis in the world by population?

Accepted Answer

The Yangtze River Delta in China (Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo) is the world's largest megalopolis with approximately 150 million residents, followed by the Pearl River Delta (78 million) and the Taiheiyō Belt in Japan (80 million).

Question 3

Who coined the term 'conurbation' and 'megalopolis'?

Accepted Answer

Patrick Geddes coined 'conurbation' in 1915. Jean Gottmann popularized 'megalopolis' in his 1961 study of the U.S. Northeastern Seaboard (BosWash corridor).

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