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If a megalopolis is a metro area of 10 million or more then I offer up the term hyperopolis for a metro/mega area with a population of 100 million people or more (for lack of a better word I can think of).
There are fast growing gigantic urban areas that seem to be heading in that direction. This is for one place that will be considered a metro by some governmental definition but have grown together so much that it is one continuous urban area Here are some potential places:
Teiheiyo Belt, Japan
Bos-Wash, USA
Pearl River Delta, China
Yellow River Delta, China
Bohai Rim, China
Mumbai, India
Indo-Gangetic Plain, India
Java-Jakarta, Indonesia
Blue Banana, Europe
When do you think it will occur? Has it already happened? Any other places that you can think of and have some evidence to back it up with?
A decent reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(city_type)
The concept is so insane, that this can only happen in a tiny but populous country, like Japan and UK, and only once it runs out of space. Personal teleportation may also be a requirement
Well Bangladesh has a population of 150 million and a density of 1,000 people per sq km, which is more than a lot of metro areas in the world, so it could be a hyperopolis
Wherever it is, I'll be avoiding it like the plague.
The blue banana is one of the densest regions in the world, but it's not entirely built up. I recently read somewhere that only 12% of the UK is actually built on, so clearly there's lots of fields and parks..
India. China has subreplacement birthrates, so I don't think it'll be them. India is small with a growing, young population. Indo-Gangetic plain.
I think it'll be India, too, but I'll add that there's a lag time after you have average subreplacement rate as prior to that you had a birthrate that constantly added to the population. There's also expanded medical abilities/facilities in China and growing urbanization that might drive a region like the Pearl River Delta into the 100 million.
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