Gigacity

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A city even larger in scale than a megacity.

    "To me it is clear that these gigacities are not prospering partly because of governance issues and partly because of disparities created in the host country by accommodating one megacity within its infrastructure."

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"To me it is clear that these gigacities are not prospering partly because of governance issues and partly because of disparities created in the host country by accommodating one megacity within its infrastructure."

Etymology

From giga- + city, after megacity.

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