World mega city

WORLD MEGA CITY

A megacity is usually defined as a mertopolitan area with a total population in excess of 10million people.Some definitions also set a minium level for population density (atleast 2000 person/square km).Megacity can be distinguished from global cites by their repid growth, new from of spatial population.Density and both formal and informal economies, as well as poverty crime and high level of social fragmentation.A megacity can be a single metropolitan a 2 or more metropolitan areas that converge the terms conurbation, metropolis and metroplex are also applied to the letter.The terms megapolis and megalopolis are sometimes used synonymously with megacity.Megacities are characterized by global connectedness and local disconnectedness.This can be viewed as one of the tension brought about by the globalization of modern cities.In 2000, there were 18 megacities-conurbation such as tokyo, new york city, los angeles, mexico city, buenos atres, mumbai, karachi that populotion in excess of 10million inhabitants.Greater tokyo already has 35million, which is greater that entire population in canada. MTOKYO TOWN

The largest megacity is the tokyo town.Many people live in there.The population of this urban agglomeration includes areas such as Yokohama, kawasaki and saitama.Acharacteristis issue of megacity is the difficulty in defining their outer limits and accurately estimaly the population.