Match the term with the correct description.?

A. ?the creation and growth of urban and suburban areas, measured as the percentage of the people in a country or in the world living in such areas
B. ?the growth of low-density development on the edges of cities and towns
C. ?housing developments scattered over large areas that lie beyond suburbs and have no socioeconomic centers
D. ?a city that contains more than 20 million people
E. ?growth of an urban population due to births outnumbering deaths


A. ?urbanization
B. ?urban sprawl
C. ?exurbs
D. ?hypercity
E. ?natural increase

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