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n. A very large city.

n. A region made up of several large cities and their surrounding areas in sufficient proximity to be considered a single urban complex.

n. A large conurbation, where two or more large cities have sprawled outward to meet, forming something larger than a metropolis; a megacity.

n. A chief city; a metropolis.

n. A chief city; a metropolis.

n. a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)

"We may observe in passing that similar tendencies are at work even in some of the richest countries, where they manifest as a trend toward excessive urbanization, toward "megalopolis", and leave, in the midst of affluence, large pockets of poverty-stricken people, "drop-outs," unemployed and unemployables."

populated area    urban area   

metropolis   

Acropolis    Heliopolis    Papadopoulos    acropolis    metropolis   

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