Question.
What are metropolitan cities? How are they different from urban agglomerations?
(NCERT class 12 geography, India People and Economy, Chapter 4: Human Settlement.)
Answer:
Indian population census classified urban centers into six classes based on the population size.
The urban center which has more than 1 lakh size population is called a class-one town. About 60 % of the total urban population of India lives in the class-one town.
- Population between 1 lakh to five million are called metropolitan cities.
- Population with more than 5 million is called megacities.
- Urban agglomerations are also urban settlements that are formed by either combination of the following three things:
- A town and outgrowth of the town.
- Two or more towns with or without their outgrowth areas.
- One city and nearly by towns with or without outgrowth of towns.
- The majority of metropolitan and megacities are urban agglomerations.
Difference between the metropolitan city and urban agglomerations:
- Metropolitan cities are simply defined by the population size( 1 lakh to 50 lakh population ) whereas urban agglomeration is not based on the specific population size( but it must be urban settlements) but is based on the outgrowth of town and influences of other towns.
- An urban agglomeration is just a stage of city growth over time and space dimensions.
- Metropolitan is smaller in size as compared to the urban agglomeration( of the same metropolitan's urban agglomeration).
- For example, Thane is an example of a Metropolitan city and it is part of Mumbai's Urban agglomeration.
- Mumbai's size and population are much more than Thane
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