Question
What are metropolitan cities? How are they different from urban agglomerations?
Solution
Cities accommodating populations between one to five million are called metropolitan cities.
The urban agglomerations differ from metropolitan cities in the following ways.
An urban agglomeration may consist of any one of the following three combinations :
(i) A town and its adjoining urban out growths.
(ii) Two or more contiguous towns with or without their outgrowths.
(iii) A city and one or more adjoining towns with their outgrowths forming a contiguous spread.
