What is Urban area?
{{Redirect|Urban settlement|the type of settlement in many [[Eastern Europe|Eastern European]] countries|Urban-type settlement}}[[File:Church Street, Oct 06.JPG|thumb|285px|An urban area of [[Singapore]]]] An '''urban area''' is an [[area]] where many people live and work close together. The [[population density]] is higher than in the surrounding area. It is where [[building]]s are close together. Urban is the [[opposite]] of [[rural]], where [[farm]] lands and [[nature]] are. Urban areas are usually [[City|cities]] and [[town]]s. Most of the work available in urban areas is [[factory]] and [[office]] work. [[Agriculture|Agricultural]] work is rare because buildings are close together and there is no space for farm lands. There are different urban area definitions for each country. The definitions mostly depend on how populated the country is and if the definition shows a true percentage of how [[Urbanization|urbanized]] the country is. For example, in Poland an urban area is any place that has the status of a town, whereas in China it is any district, city, or town with a population density higher than 1500 people per square kilometer. The urban population definition for [[Canada|Canadian]] and [[Scandinavia]]n countries depends on density. If there is a house every 200 meters it is classified as urban. A large urban area, with all connected areas (usually developed around some city) is called a [[Metropolitan area]]. == Related pages == *[[List of largest cities]] (includes a list of urban areas) [[Category:Urban planning]] [[Category:Urban geography]] [[Category:Economic geography]] {{geography-stub}}