City
City noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Usage example: commuters who drive every day between their homes in the suburbs and their jobs in the city
Megacity
Megacity noun - A thickly settled, highly populated area.
Usage example: such modern megacities as São Paulo and Mexico City
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Toronto is an exceptionally multicultural city: 47% of its population consists of "visible minorities"; soon, "white" will be a "visible minority" by census, and already is within North York, the largest, second most populous, and most multicultural zone in the megacity.
Source: Useful Notes / Toronto - The early stages in the game are a window into this world (the first stage, for example, shows Hong Kong having turned into an overblown megacity for the rich, while the poor had to make a living in the ruins of the old city, underground.)
Source: Crapsack World / Video Games -
After the dust settles, civilization hangs on by a thread; there remains one city for the few privileged, Megacity, and the rest of the human race must survive in the harsh Outlands.
Source: Literature / Blackstar
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