Originally designating the seaboard of the USA from Boston to Washington, this is now any many-centred, multi-city, urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants, generally dominated by low-density settlement and complex networks of economic specialization. It is usually formed by the coalescence of conurbations. Köln-Düsseldorf-Duisberg-Bochum-Dortmund furnish a European example.
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