A report on Urban area and Conurbation

Greater Tokyo Area, Japan, the world's most populated urban area, with about 38 million inhabitants

A map of the large conurbation area of Helsinki (in yellow) in Uusimaa, Finland

Greater Melbourne, Australia at night, seen from the International Space Station

Satellite photo from 2012 showing Sydney in the centre, with Wollongong visible on the left and the Central Coast on the right

Nocturnal view of the New York City metropolitan area, the world's most brightly illuminated conurbation and largest urban landmass. Long Island extends 120 miles eastward from Manhattan, the central core of the conurbation.

Urban areas with at least one million inhabitants in 2006

Rhine-Ruhr, the largest conurbation of the European continent

A street sign indicating the beginning of an urban area in Finland. The picture was taken in Vimpeli.

2011 Rural Urban classification by Local Authority Districts in England

São Paulo, the largest city in Brazil, the largest city proper in the Southern Hemisphere, in the Americas, and the world's ninth-largest urban area by population.

2011 Rural Urban classification by census Output Areas in England

Moscow, the capital and largest city of Russia

Satellite view of the Taipei-Taoyuan-Keelung Metropolitan Area, the largest metropolitan area in Taiwan.

Saint Petersburg, the cultural capital and the second-largest city

Satellite view of the Kaohsiung-Pingtung-Tainan metropolitan area.

Yekaterinburg, the fourth-largest city in the country.

Greater São Paulo at night seen from the International Space Station

A conurbation is a region comprising a number of metropolises, cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.

- Conurbation

Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs.

- Urban area

3 related topics with Alpha

Lagos

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Largest city in Nigeria and the second most populous city in Africa, with a population of 15.4 million as of 2015 within the city proper - daily the Lagos area is growing by some 3,000 people, or around 1.1 million annually, so the true population figure of the greater Lagos area in 2022 is roughly 28 million (up from some 23.5 million in 2018).

Map of Lagos' initial city boundaries, showing its contemporary districts. This definition is rarely used in the present day; the expanded metropolitan area is now a more accepted definition of Lagos.

A map showing the 16 LGAs making up Lagos Metropolitan Area

The Lagos Black Heritage Festival Parade, 2012

The Cathedral Church of Christ Marina on Lagos Island

Toll gates and roads at the Lekki-Ẹpẹ Expressway

Lagos, its ports, airports, free trade zone and light rail system

Distilling column of the Dangote refinery in compare to a Saturn rocket

Even though Lagos is still widely referred to as a city, the present-day Lagos, also known as "Metropolitan Lagos", and officially as "Lagos Metropolitan Area" is an urban agglomeration or conurbation, consisting of 16 LGAs including Ikeja, the state capital of Lagos State.

Metropolitan area

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A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.

Conurbation

Greater Buenos Aires

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Buenos Aires, city, and vicinities, Landsat 8 satellite image.

Greater Buenos Aires Metropolitan Rail Network.

Monte Grande (Esteban Echeverría Partido)

Pan-American Expressway, north of Buenos Aires

Greater Buenos Aires (Gran Buenos Aires, GBA), also known as the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, AMBA), refers to the urban agglomeration comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires and the adjacent 24 partidos (districts) in the Province of Buenos Aires.

The conurbation spreads south, west and north of Buenos Aires city.