Conurbation

A conurbation (English: conurbation ) is an urban area such as agglomeration (corresponding to an urban area / agglomeration ), but has two or more town centers.

The Rhine- Ruhr conurbation is one of 20 cities and towns and cities in eleven counties in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia. It has an area of ​​7,110 square kilometers with approximately eleven million inhabitants. It consists of the two sub- areas of the Ruhr and Rhine. The Ruhr region extends to the north of the Rhine -Ruhr in west-east direction from Duisburg to Hamm, the river Rhine in the north-south direction from Duisburg to Bonn.

The Randstad is a conurbation in the west of the Netherlands and covers parts of the provinces of North Holland, South Holland, Flevoland and Utrecht. Randstad to include the urban areas of twelve cities and other cities and towns with an area of ​​5,129 square kilometers. It accounts for 20 percent of the total surface of the Netherlands, but living in this metropolitan area, with about seven million inhabitants, more than 40 percent of the Dutch population.

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