megalopolis

extensive urban agglomeration of multiple large cities to form something larger than a metropolis
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megalopolis
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megalopolis

Summary

megalopolis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (752 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • megalopolis's image is recorded as NASA ISS006-E-24987.jpg[2].
  • megalopolis's subclass of is recorded as urban area[3].
  • megalopolis's Commons category is recorded as Megalopolises[4].
  • megalopolis's said to be the same as is recorded as polycentric metropolitan area[5].
  • megalopolis's said to be the same as is recorded as Q11776944[6].
  • megalopolis's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0d_6j2[7].
  • megalopolis's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Megalopolises[8].
  • megalopolis's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300008402[9].
  • megalopolis's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1328584[10].
  • megalopolis's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/megalopolis-urbanization[11].
  • megalopolis's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'en-ca', 'text': 'megaregion'}[12].
  • megalopolis's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'fr-ca', 'text': 'mégarégion'}[13].
  • megalopolis's different from is recorded as megacity[14].
  • megalopolis's different from is recorded as metropolitan area[15].
  • megalopolis's different from is recorded as urban agglomeration[16].
  • megalopolis's has part is recorded as metropolitan area[17].
  • megalopolis's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11b6gnqj_q[18].
  • megalopolis's Treccani ID is recorded as megalopoli[19].
  • megalopolis's EuroVoc ID is recorded as 1861[20].
  • megalopolis's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2777967926[21].
  • megalopolis's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C2777967926[22].
  • megalopolis's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 493587[23].
  • megalopolis's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as megalopolis-2af100[24].
  • megalopolis's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Mégalopole[25].

Why It Matters

megalopolis ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (752 views/month).[1] megalopolis has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] megalopolis is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . pm.gc.ca. pm.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . pm.gc.ca. pm.gc.ca. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  21. [22] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_megalopolis_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{megalopolis}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/megalopolis}, note = {Accessed: 2026-04-11}}
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