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The phrase "as a conurbation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a large urban area formed by the merging of several towns or cities.
Example: "The region has developed significantly over the years, evolving as a conurbation that now includes multiple municipalities."
Alternatives: "as an urban area" or "as a metropolitan region".
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Anxious to consolidate St Petersburg as a conurbation, Peter the Great forced his nobles to build second houses on the plots of land he gave them just outside the city.
It is a purpose-built city built on reclaimed land, a business hub that crystallised out of the Yellow Sea as a conurbation of neighbouring Incheon.
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John Prescott's ambitious plans for what is remembered in some quarters as Prezzagrad, a conurbation along the M62 corridor, may not be missed.
From Tokyo, Shanghai, Lagos or Rio – cities that will have more than 20 million inhabitants by 2030 – Greater London and Paris Grand, with a combined population of 20 million, may well be seen as a single conurbation.
In 1951, the census in the UK began reporting on South East Lancashire as a homogeneous conurbation.
Because Parma, Reggio Emilia, and Modena are very close and share common environmental and sociodemographic characteristics, they have been analyzed altogether as a single conurbation called "Emilia Romagna".
In Norwich, which was included for spatial representativeness as a 15th conurbation, and may be regarded as the most rural-like location in these analyses, average daily maximum 8-hour ozone concentration was higher at 73 (± 28) μg m-3 (37 ± 14 ppb).
Other models of urban growth make Seattle part of a conurbation called "Pugetopolis," which extends southwest along Puget Sound as far as Olympia.
It is a conurbation of 220,000 inhabitants and is regarded as the fastest growing urban community on the continent.
The town forms a conurbation with adjoining Bayt Jālā, to the northwest, and Bayt Sāḥūr, to the southeast.
Again we used the AIRGENE algorithm to combine data from multiple stations within a conurbation.
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