Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Built Environment (hierarchy name)
4. Settlements and Landscapes (hierarchy name)
5. inhabited places
6. [settlements by form]
7. agglomerations

Anotations

Scope note:

Extensive built-up urban areas that contain some isolated rural areas and are formed by the merging together of cities or towns that formerly were separate. For more extensive or comprehensive clusters of urban areas, use "megalopolises."