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megalopolis

A densely populated urban area that sprawls across two or more large, independent cities. The photo is a nighttime satellite image showing population concentrations in megalopolis areas in the United States.

Examples include the Bos-Wash megalopolis from Boston to Washington,D.C., with an estimated population in excess of 41 million people; Chi-Pitts from Chicago to Pittsburgh; and San- San from San Francisco to San Diego. The largest megalopolis in the world is the 1,200-mile Taiheiyo Belt in Japan.
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In 1989 she worked for the Southern Nevada Homebuilders Association, supported by the developers who transformed the city from a burg to a megalopolis, when a little-known creature would start to dominate development concerns: the desert tortoise.
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The loud message was that a small group of individuals could turn a megalopolis of almost 15 million inhabitants into a battlefield for at least a day, he says, adding that terrorism is a beast with an extraordinary ability to mutate.
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The land and infrastructure ministry says that in the Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya megalopolis regions, commercial land prices went up an average 3.
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