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The "Golden Horseshoe" is a densely populated and industrialized region centred around the west end of Lake Ontario in Southern Ontario, Canada. Most of it is also part of the Windsor-Quebec City corridor. With a population of 8.1 million people, it makes up slightly over a quarter (25.6%) of the population of Canada and contains approximately 75% of Ontario's population,[4] making it one of the largest population concentrations in North America. Although it is a geographically named sub-region of Southern Ontario, "Greater Golden Horseshoe" is more frequently used today to describe the metropolitan regions that stretch across the area in totality. The region incorporates Toronto, Mississauga, York, Peel Region, Hamilton, Oakville and Scarborough.
The National Capital Region (NCR) is made up of the capital, Ottawa, and neighbouring Gatineau which is located across the Ottawa River. As Ottawa is in Ontario and Gatineau, Quebec, this is a unique conurbation. Federal government buildings are located in both cities and many workers live in one city and work in the other. The National Capital Region consists of an area of 5,319 square kilometres that straddles the boundary between the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The area of the National Capital Region is very similar to that of the Ottawa-Gatineau Census Metropolitan Area (CMA), although the National Capital Region contains a number of small neighbouring communities that are not contained within the CMA. When all the communities are added, the population is around 1,500,000. Ottawa-Gatineau is the only CMA in the nation to fall within two provinces.
British Columbia's Lower Mainland is the most populated area in Western Canada. It consists of many mid sized continuous urban areas, including Vancouver, North Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Richmond, and Coquitlam.
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Germany has three conurbations along the River Rhine, namely Rhine-Main, Rhine-Neckar and Rhine-Ruhr. The Rhine-Ruhr is a densely populated polycentric metropolitan region in the western part of Germany, comprising the three subregions of Ruhr Metropolitan Region, Düsseldorf-Mönchengladbach-Wuppertal Region and Cologne/Bonn Metropolitan Region. These three are all interlinked by a continuous urban settlement, while at the same time having different cultural and economic agendas.
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The National Capital Region (NCR - the Tri-State Region) is a name for the conurbation or metropolitan area which encompasses the entire National Capital Territory of Delhi as well as urban areas ringing it in neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan. With a total area of about 33,578 km2 (12,965 sq mi)it has an estimated population of 21,961,994 in 2007.
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The Taiheiyō Belt is the largest conurbation in Japan in every term, extending from Ibaraki Prefecture to Fukuoka Prefecture, running almost 1,200 km, with the total population of 82.9 million. The Greater Tokyo Area, also called Shutoken (the National Capital Region), is a metropolitan area in the Kantō region, with the estimated population of 35,676,000 in 2007, often referred to as the most populous and economically largest metropolitan area in the world.
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The Randstad, which is a densely populated area in the Netherlands consisting of a cluster of the four biggest cities of the country and several smaller cities, towns and urbanized villages, is another appropriate example of a conurbation. The Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium, by contrast, is an agglomeration centered on one city.
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Metropolitan Association of Upper Silesia (Górnośląski Związek Metropolitalny) is the biggest conurbation in Poland, located in Upper Silesia, southern Poland. In GOP lives around 2 million people, which makes 5.26% of population of Poland.
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Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni (East Rand), and Tshwane (greater Pretoria) are currently merging to form a region that comprises a population of 14.6 million people.[5]
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The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the third-largest conurbation in Latin America, with a population of around 13 million, coming right after Mexico City and Greater São Paulo and followed by Greater Rio de Janeiro.
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Main article: List of conurbations in the United Kingdom
Industrial and housing growth in the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries produced many conurbations. Greater London is by far the largest urban area and is usually counted as a conurbation in statistical terms, but differs from the others in the degree to which it is focused on a single central area.[3] In the mid-1950s the Green Belt was introduced to stem the further urbanisation of the countryside in England. Note that as used in the United Kingdom, the term "conurbation" is closer to the meaning of urban agglomeration.
The list below shows the most populous urban areas in the UK as defined by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The Greater London Urban Area contains the whole of what is commonly called London, but ONS definitions divide London into a large number of smaller localities of which the largest is Croydon.
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Largest urban areas of the United Kingdom
2001 Census[6][7][8]
Rank
Urban area
Pop.
Principal settlement
Rank
Urban area
Pop.
Principal settlement
Greater London Urban Area
West Midlands Urban Area
1
Greater London Urban Area
8,278,251
London
11
Bristol Urban Area
551,066
Bristol
Greater Manchester Urban Area
West Yorkshire Urban Area
2
West Midlands Urban Area
2,284,093
Birmingham
12
Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton
461,181
Brighton
3
Greater Manchester Urban Area
2,240,230
Manchester
13
Portsmouth Urban Area
442,252
Portsmouth
4
West Yorkshire Urban Area
1,499,465
Leeds
14
Leicester Urban Area
441,213
Leicester
5
Greater Glasgow
1,199,629
Glasgow
15
Edinburgh
420,893
Edinburgh
6
Tyneside
879,996
Newcastle upon Tyne
16
South East Dorset conurbation
383,713
Bournemouth
7
Liverpool Urban Area
816,216
Liverpool
17
Reading/Wokingham Urban Area
369,804
Reading
8
Nottingham Urban Area
666,358
Nottingham
18
Teesside
365,323
Middlesbrough
9
Sheffield Urban Area
640,720
Sheffield
19
The Potteries Urban Area
362,403
Stoke-on-Trent
10
Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area
579,554
Belfast
20
Coventry/Bedworth Urban Area
336,452
Coventry
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A satellite image of Florida showing South Florida (bottom right), which consists of hundreds of municipalities, as a continuous aglomeration of lights
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One example of a conurbation is the expansive concept of the New York metropolitan area (the Tri-State Region) centered around New York City, including 30 counties spread between New York State, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania, with an estimated population of 21,961,994 in 2007.[9] Approximately one-fifteenth of all U.S. residents live in the Greater New York City area. This conurbation is the result of several central cities whose urban areas have merged together.
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Another conurbation is the combination of the metropolitan areas of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose and several minor urban centers, known as the San Francisco Bay Area.
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The Greater Los Angeles Area consists of the merging of several distinct central cities and counties, including Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, and San Bernardino. This area is also often referred to simply as Southern California or colloquially as SoCal (a larger region which tends to include San Diego).
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The traditionally separate metropolitan areas of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. have shared suburbs and a continuous urbanization between the two central cities (Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area).
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The largest conurbation between the United States and Mexico, San Diego–Tijuana includes the two countries' busiest border crossing and a shared economy.[10]
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Two major metropolitan areas (Greater Milwaukee, and Greater Chicago) that are linked through several midsized suburban and urban cities, mainly Racine, Kenosha, Waukegan, Buffalo Grove, Des Plaines, and the rest of the Northern Chicago suburbs between Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI.
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Three large cities, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Arlington, make up this area. Each city is linked by touching city limits or suburbs. This area is also commonly known as the Metroplex and is included in the emerging megalopolis known as the Texas Triangle.
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The major U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan lies immediately across the Detroit River from Windsor, Ontario in Canada. In many respects—economically, historically, culturally, socially, and, of course, geographically—Windsor is more a part of Metro Detroit than of Ontario. The two cities and their surrounding suburbs are commonly referred to collectively as the Detroit-Windsor area. The Detroit-Windsor border is the largest commercial border crossing in North America and the busiest between the two countries. With a combined total population of nearly six million, Detroit-Windsor is the world's largest trans-border metropolitan area (since Hong Kong was returned to the Chinese in 1997).
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The entire tri-county area also known as the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metropolitan area is now continuously urbanized along a roughly 100 miles (161 km) length of the Florida east coast as well as extending inland and continuing south of Miami as far as Florida City. Although this is generally all referred to as a single metropolitan area, not a conurbation, it is sometimes broken up into the Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach metros. Satellite images also show the metropolitan areas of Tampa, Florida, and Orlando, Florida, to be nearly connected along the highly developed I-4 corridor.
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Look up conurbation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Amalgamation (politics)
Combined Statistical Area
Consolidated city-county
Ecumenopolis
Ekistics
Globalization
List of metropolitan areas by population
Largest cities of the world
Megacity
Megalopolis
Metropolis
Suburbs
The Sprawl
Transborder agglomeration
Urban sprawl
Urban agglomeration
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| References | |
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^ conurbation – Dictionary Definition of conurbation | Encyclopedia.com: FREE Online Dictionary
^ Hall, Peter (2002). Cities of Tomorrow. ISBN 0631232524.
^ a b Vision of Britain article on use of this and similar terms
^ "Portrait of the Canadian Population in 2006: Subprovincial population dynamics, Greater Golden Horseshoe". Statistics Canada, 2006 Census of Population. 2007-03-13. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/analysis/popdwell/subprov4.cfm#ggh. Retrieved 2007-03-13.
^ Baker, Deane-Parker (15 September 2010). "South Africa's threat environment: a guide for the National Planning Commission". African Security Review (Pretoria: Routledge) 19 (3): 54–64. doi:10.1080/10246029.2010.519878. ISSN 1024-6029. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp.title-content=t919213844. Retrieved 9 May 2011. ""...what military force would relish tackling Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni (the East Rand) and Tshwane (greater Pretoria), which will by 2015 be a single polycentric urban region...""
^ http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/census/census-2001-key-statistics/urban-areas-in-england-and-wales/index.html
^ KS01 Usual resident population, Key Statistics for Settlements and Localities Scotland General Register Office for Scotland
^ http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/pdf/ks_sett_tables.pdf
^ "Annual Estimates of the Population of Combined Statistical Areas: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2007" (CSV). 2007 Population Estimates. United States Census Bureau, Population Division. 2008-03-27. http://www.census.gov/population/estimates/metro_general/2007/CSA-EST2007-alldata.csv. Retrieved 2008-05-26.
^ [|Loucky, James], ed. Transboundary policy challenges in the Pacific border regions of North America. University of Calgary Press. p. 8. ISBN 1-55238-223-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=KDc2r0SC5PIC&lpg=PA8&dq=tijuana%20san%20diego%20largest%20conurbation&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=tijuana%20san%20diego%20largest%20conurbation&f=false. Retrieved February 19, 2011.
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| Further reading | |
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Patrick Geddes - "Cities In Evolution"
Edward Soja - "Postmetropolis"
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