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  2. Urban area - Wikipedia

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    A satellite view of the U.S. Northeast megalopolis at night, the world's most economically productive megalopolis [1] with over 50 million residents, centered on New York City Greater Tokyo in Japan, the world's most populated urban area, with about 40 million inhabitants as of 2022 Greater São Paulo at night, as seen from the International Space Station Aerial view of Greater Adelaide, the ...

  3. City - Wikipedia

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    Typical working definitions for small-city populations start at around 100,000 people. [19] Common population definitions for an urban area (city or town) range between 1,500 and 50,000 people, with most U.S. states using a minimum between 1,500 and 5,000 inhabitants. [20] [21] Some jurisdictions set no such minima. [22]

  4. Urban geography - Wikipedia

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    New York City, one of the largest urban areas in the world. Urban geography is the subdiscipline of geography that derives from a study of cities and urban processes. Urban geographers and urbanists [1] examine various aspects of urban life and the built environment. Scholars, activists, and the public have participated in, studied, and ...

  5. US Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America - AOL

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    More than 1,100 cities, towns and villages in the U.S. lost their status as urban areas on Thursday as the The post US Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America appeared first on TheGrio.

  6. Urbanization - Wikipedia

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    Urbanization over the past 500 years [13] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [14]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...

  7. List of United States urban areas - Wikipedia

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    Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. The list in this article includes urban ...

  8. Metropolis - Wikipedia

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    Mexico City is Mexico's capital and largest city. In Mexico, the term metropolis is used to refer to an urban area of economic, political, and cultural importance. Mexico City represents all three factors as it is the country's capital and financial center with 27 million people.

  9. Metropolitan area - Wikipedia

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    Metropolitan areas in the United States are delineated around the core of a core based statistical area which is defined as an urban area, (this is different than the urban core) and consists of central and outlying counties, as the terms central city and suburb are no longer used by the census bureau due to suburbanization of employment.