| It is not good for the country if it is made up of just four or five megalopolises. |
| Indeed, in parts of the state there are densely populated rural equivalents of urban megalopolises. |
| There are emerging megalopolises in Britain in the region between London and the Midland cities, in Germany in the industrial basin of the Ruhr, and in Japan in the Tokyo Osaka Kyōto complex. |
| And because agricultural exports represent an important source of their national wealth, there has been an explosion in poverty in rural areas which has lead to the creation of megalopolises. |
| By the 1960s, urban sprawl had created enormous megalopolises. |
| The examples provided concern small towns. The cities of the future will, however, be megalopolises with enormous problems. |
