supercities
Massive metropolitan areas
Supercities are massive urban areas with populations typically exceeding ten million, functioning as dominant centers of global commerce, finance, and culture.
The term emphasizes scale and influence beyond ordinary large cities: Tokyo, New York, and Shanghai are supercities that drive the world economy.
Also called megacities, though supercity often carries connotations of exceptional power or futuristic development.
Vast merged urban region
- megaregionLinked metropolitan areas
- conurbationMerged continuous urban area
- agglomerationCollected mass of parts
- sprawlExtend in disorderly fashion
cosmopolis · polycentric · periphery · outskirts · beltway · exurbia · annexation · intermunicipal
megalopolis
Vast merged urban region
- megaregionLinked metropolitan areas
- conurbationMerged continuous urban area
- agglomerationCollected mass of parts
sprawl · cosmopolis · polycentric · periphery · outskirts · beltway · exurbia · annexation · intermunicipal
subway
Underground transit passage
- highriseMultistory urban building
- skyscrapersExtremely tall urban buildings
- highwaysMajor intercity roads
utilities · telecommunications · airports · seaports · bridges · tunnels · logistics · zoning · land-use · densification
hyperloop
Sealed tube transport system
supercitiesvillages
Small rural settlements
small towns · hamlets · rural communities · outposts · settlements
supercitieswilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
countryside · rural areas · backcountry · hinterlands · farmland