Rashid's Blog: A Place for Inquisitive Souls

The major city, as well as its satellite towns or smaller communities, make up the conurbation. It is a collection of townships, suburbs, satellite towns, and other areas that connect two or more megacities. It is the outcome of the coalescence of several expanding towns or urban nuclei. They are an element of urban ecology, as they are functionally intertwined with megacities and larger cities. 

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