Other models of urban growth make Seattle part of a conurbation called "Pugetopolis," which extends southwest along Puget Sound as far as Olympia.
At the very centre of a conurbation of 24 million, that reaches out beyond Kyoto and Kobe, is the giant entertainment district of Namba, a network of neon-lit, covered arcades that spreads over several square miles.
A major port of entry and an air and sea gateway to Asia and Alaska, Seattle lies alongside Puget Sound, a deep inland arm of the northern Pacific Ocean, and is at the centre of a conurbation that is defined roughly by Everett to the north, Bellevue to the east, and Tacoma to the south.
Continued growth in other parts of the town, and the taming of the central marshland into farmland and nature reserves, has turned Eastbourne into the centre of a conurbation, with the appearance from above of a hollow ring.
Until the time of the referendum in 2012 there was no official, unique or shared definition of what is the territory of Mappano, a conurbation that extends over the territory of the municipalities of Borgaro Torinese, Caselle Torinese, Leinì, Settimo Torinese, and Torino (45°08′54″N 07°42′28″E, Fig. 1).
Participants (index children and their families) were recruited from amongst primary school aged children (usually 5 – 12 years old) of Māori ethnicity (by parental report), living in the Wellington region of NZ - a conurbation of the capital city, Wellington, and the cities of Lower Hutt, Upper Hutt, and Porirua.
Newcastle University lies at the heart of a city with a population of around 300,000 within a conurbation of around 900,000, which lies on the North side of the river Tyne in the North-East of England.
The other major urban area is that of southern Upper Silesia, a conurbation of mining and industrial settlements stretching some 30 miles (48 km) from Dąbrowa Górnicza to Gliwice.
The City of Birmingham forms a conurbation with the largely residential borough of Solihull to the south east, and with the city of Wolverhampton and the industrial towns of the Black Country to the north west, which form the West Midlands Built-up Area covering 59972 ha.
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.
By the beginning of the 20th century, salients of urban growth linked Manchester to the ring of cotton-manufacturing towns Bolton, Rochdale, and Oldham, for example that almost surround the city, and a new form of urban development, a conurbation, or metropolitan area, was evolving.
