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The following is a list of the largest satellite cities worldwide, with over 500,000 people. A satellite city is defined as subordinate to a central city in a business or infrastructure sense, and it may or may not have more population than the central city due to arbitrary municipal definitions. Excluded are transborder agglomerations.
Satellite cities differ from edge cities, which are suburbs with large employment bases and cultural offerings, in that satellite cities must have a true historic downtown, a distinct independent municipal government, existed as a city prior to becoming interconnected with the larger metropolitan core, and are surrounded by a belt of rural land between themselves and the central city.
The government has a vision of developing 100 smart cities as satellite towns of larger cities by modernising the existing mid-sized cities. Currently Telangana state includes three Smart Cities. AMRUT cities
Satellite City of Chennai (1 P) Pages in category "Satellite Cities in India" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
ITS (Indian Telecommunication Service) is an organized Group-A service for which recruitment is conducted through competitive examination called Engineering Service Examination (ESE) which is a three-stage competitive examination (preliminary, main and personality tests) and is conducted by the UPSC every year. Officers recruited through ESE ...
New Town (a.k.a. Rajarhat New Town) is a planned Satellite city of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is administered by NKDA (New Town Kolkata Development Authority). [ 4 ]
Noida is a satellite city of Delhi and is a part of the National Capital Region. As per provisional reports of Census of India, the population of Noida in 2011 was 642,381. [7] The city is managed by New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (NOIDA). [8] The district's administrative headquarters are in the nearby city of Greater Noida.
Tin Shui Wai New Town. The Hong Kong government started developing new towns in the 1950s to accommodate Hong Kong's booming population.During the first phase of development, the newly developed towns were called "satellite towns", a concept borrowed from the United Kingdom, of which Hong Kong was a colony.