megacity

noun mega·city \ -ˌsi-tē \

|Updated on: 12 Jun 2018

Examples: megacity in a Sentence

Definition of megacity

: megalopolis 1

Examples of megacity in a Sentence

such modern megacities as São Paulo and Mexico City

Recent Examples of megacity from the Web

The megacity – stuffed with around 25 million inhabitants and infamous as the place the Taliban captured and beheaded Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl in 2002 – seethed with drug smuggling, kidnapping, extortion and daily bomb blasts.

— hollie mckay, Fox News, "Pakistan works to clean up Karachi, once world's 'most dangerous city'," 7 June 2018
Mbandaka, with more than a million people and easy transport to the megacity of Kinshasa.

— adam rogers, WIRED, "An Ebola Vaccine Gets Its First Real-World Test," 21 May 2018
Dozens of crowded public boats commute daily downstream from Kinshasa—a megacity of 12 million people—and Brazzaville, the capital of the Congo Republic.

— betsy mckay, WSJ, "Congo at ‘Very High’ Risk as Ebola Strikes Major City," 18 May 2018
The World Bank calls the Greater Bay Area a global megacity, the site of the most rapid urban expansion in human history.

— barry d. wood, USA TODAY, "'Mini-Memphis': Inside FedEx's bustling hub in China," 10 May 2018
Sparkling beneath a hundred flashbulbs, Ford’s newest saloon was presented to the world in the central Chinese megacity of Chongqing on Tuesday, in a symphony of polished paintwork and umbrella-twirling dancers.

— Time, "Beneath the Glitz of a Ford Automobile Launch in China, Fears of a Trade War Remain," 12 Apr. 2018
What became known as the Paris of the East laid the groundwork for what Shanghai is today: an unparalleled economic powerhouse and megacity of 24 million people.

— New York Times, "Conquering High-Priced Shanghai, From Dumplings to Modern Art," 28 Feb. 2018
Second, the megacity is the heart of Pakistan’s retail market, whose latest annual growth of 8.2% is about the fastest in the world, according to Euromonitor, a market-analysis firm.

— The Economist, "Why billboards are under attack in Pakistan’s business capital," 22 Mar. 2018
Brazil’s Sao Paulo, a megacity of 20 million, faced its own Day Zero in 2015.

— National Geographic, "From Not Enough to Too Much, the World’s Water Crisis Explained," 22 Mar. 2018

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