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Vinony

megacity

noun

  1. Very large city with a total population in excess of ten million people
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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méǵh₂s Proto-Hellenic *mégas Ancient Greek μέγᾰς (mégăs)der. English mega- English city English megacity From mega- + city.

  1. A very large city; a megalopolis.

    “Why, for instance, do water users in a megacity like Lagos not pay an extra charge to get cesspits pumped out?”

    “For the past four decades, the world’s fastest developing delta has been the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in the province of Guangdong in southern China. The delta area in the Pearl River has been transformed from a predominantly agricultural landscape into one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas, encompassing such megacities as Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and Hong Kong (Fig. 1.4).”