WORD OF THE DAY

Something to add to your trivia stash.

Hamlet: less than 100 ppl; also this

Village: larger than a hamlet but, smaller than a town

Town/Large Town: 1,000 to 20,000 and 20,000 to 100,000 respectively but it varies

City/Large City: 100,000 to 300,000 and 300,000 to 1,000,000 respectively

Metropolis: 1 to 3 million, or an urban centre within driving distance of Gotham

Conurbation: a group of cities and suburbs with 3 to 10 million ppl

Megalopolis: a group of conurbations consisting of more than 10 million ppl each

Ecumenopolis: A theoretical construction in which the entire area of Earth is taken up by human settlements, or at least that those are linked so as to... shape an urban continuum greater than a megalopolis

image: Picadilly Circus by L. S. Lowry