AQA GCSE Geography 8035
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Urban Issues and Challenges
The rise of megacities
- 3 things to know
- Paper 2
Overview
Megacities, millionaire cities and world cities, how and where megacities have multiplied, why they grow around capitals and ports, the problems of very large cities, and their effect on the rest of their country.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What is a millionaire city?
What is a world city?
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What is a megacity?
Model answer
An urban area with a population of more than ten million people.
- 2
What is a millionaire city?
Model answer
A city with more than one million inhabitants.
- 3
What is a world city?
Model answer
A city with influence over the whole globe, usually through its financial, business and cultural power rather than its size alone.
- 4
How has the number of megacities changed over the last few decades?
Model answer
It has risen sharply, from only a handful in the middle of the twentieth century to several dozen today.
- 5
Where are most of the world's megacities now found?
Model answer
Mainly in Asia, with others in Africa and South America, rather than in the richer countries where the earliest ones grew.
- 6
Which two processes have allowed megacities to emerge?
Model answer
Rural to urban migration on a huge scale, and rapid natural increase within the cities themselves.
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