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Question
How can one identify an urban agglomeration?
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Solution
An urban agglomeration consists of any one of the following three combinations:
- a town and its adjoining urban outgrowths,
- two or more contiguous towns with or without their outgrowths, and
- a city and one or more adjoining towns with their outgrowths together forming a contiguous spread.
Examples of urban outgrowth are railway colonies, university campuses, port areas, military cantonment, etc. located within the revenue limits of a village or villages contiguous to the town or city.
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