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The Texas Triangle is a region of Texas that contains the state's five largest cities and is home to the majority of the state's population. The Texas Triangle is formed by the state's four main urban centers, Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio, connected by Interstate 45, Interstate 10, and Interstate 35.
The term "megacity" entered common use in the late 19th or early 20th centuries; one of the earliest documented uses of the term was by the University of Texas in 1904. [14] Initially the United Nations used the term to describe cities of 8 million or more inhabitants, but now uses the threshold of 10 million. [15]
Mexico City New York City Los Angeles Chicago Toronto Washington, D.C. San Francisco Dallas Houston Boston. This is a list of the largest urban agglomerations in North America.It includes the 50 most populated urban agglomerations as determined by either CityPopulation.de or Demographia.
Greater Houston, designated by the United States Office of Management and Budget as Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land, [4] [5] [6] is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States, [7] [8] [9] encompassing nine counties along the Gulf Coast in Southeast Texas.
A satellite image of the Pearl River Delta area in China. A megalopolis (/ ˌ m ɛ ɡ ə ˈ l ɒ p ə l ɪ s /) or a supercity, [1] also called a megaregion, [2] is a group of metropolitan areas which are perceived as a continuous urban area through common systems of transport, economy, resources, ecology, and so on. [2]
The second-largest economic development activity in Georgetown history was the selection in 1995 of Georgetown as the site for the first-ever Sun City location in Texas. Originally called Sun City Georgetown, the project today is called Sun City Texas due to its size and because it draws residents from all over the state.
Their decision paved the way for many of Mexico City’s modern problems. Wetlands and rivers have been replaced with concrete and asphalt. In the rainy season, it floods.
Aerial view of Chandler, Arizona, a city described as a boomburb. A boomburb is a large, rapidly-growing city that remains essentially suburban in character, even as it reaches populations more typical of urban core cities.