Cities are the foundation of urban life, and these 4 key definitions--global city, metropolis, megacity and megalopolis--help us differentiate their importance.
It boasts a higher proportion of FDI enterprises, marking its status as an international megacity. Furthermore, international trade is a crucial component of Shanghai’s economic development, with higher export value and more FDI firms, enhancing the city’s international openness and providing ...
By broader definitions Moscow is among the world's largest cities, being the 14th largest metro area, the 18th largest agglomeration, the 15th largest urban area, and the 11th largest by population within city limits worldwide. Moscow is the northernmost and coldest megacity and metropolis on Ear...
Figure 1. MCMA’s population (in thousands) in 2019. Source: Compiled by the authors using official data from state, municipal, and locality boundary files from the Mexican National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics (INEGI). The metropolitan-wide transport network is mainly compo...