Metropolitan area  

Ballungsraum   (german)

used for: Urban area, Urban agglomeration, Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, Peri-urban area, City region

Related Terms

• Agglomeration effect  
• Growth pole  
• Large city  
• Urbanization  

Subject Categories

• V.11.02 Economics of location  
• V.11.06.01 Urban geography  

Links to other Thesauri and Vocabularies

=	Stadtregion   (from GND)
=	Metropolregion   (from GND)
=	Ballungsraum   (from GND)
>	Trabantenstadt   (from GND)
>	Stadtrand   (from GND)
≅	Metropolitan area   (from DBpedia)
=	agglomeration area   (from TheSoz)

Persistent Identifier (for bookmarking and linking)

• http://zbw.eu/stw/descriptor/11979-5