A conurbation's an urban area or agglomeration comprising a number of cities, large towns and larger urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban and industrially developed area. In most cases, a conurbation's a polycentric agglomeration, in which transportation has developed to link areas to create a single urban labour market or travel to work area. The term "conurbation" was coined as a neologism in 1915 by Patrick Geddes in his… (More on Conurbation)