conurbation

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The supplier serves about eight million people in homes and businesses in the West Midlands conurbation, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Warwickshire, along with Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Gloucestershire and Lincolnshire.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2023

In Yuzhou city, part of Xuchang's conurbation, 1 million residents are already under lockdown, with people in some areas unable to leave their homes.

From Reuters • Jan. 6, 2022

With Christmas parties aplenty cancelled because of the Great Unpleasantness, including that at No 10, a nation will be rapt by a battle between two clubs on the outer fringes of the London conurbation.

From The Guardian • Dec. 10, 2021

Despite Bradford being the UK's seventh largest city, with the district having a population of 537,000, a recent report found it has the worst rail connections of any major British conurbation.

From BBC • Nov. 18, 2021

L’Asile, a conurbation of 52,000 people living mostly in rural communities, was founded in the 1930s.

From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2021