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6. A megacity in geography is an urban area with a population of over ten million people.
8. A metropolis is a major city together with its suburbs and nearby cities, towns, and environs over which the major city exercises a commanding economic and social influence.
9. Functional regions are regions that exist due to a function. The function can be commercial, social, political, or something else. The area surrounding a central node where an activity occurs is called the functional region.
10. A village is a small settlement usually found in a rural settlement.
11. A rural area is an open swath of land that has few homes or other buildings, and not very many people.
12. A town is a larger settlement than a village, with more people living in it.

1. A city is a human settlement of a notable size.
2. Regional geography is a branch of geography that studies the world's regions, which are parts of the Earth's surface with one or many similar characteristics that make them unique.
3. lasting or intended to last or remain unchanged indefinitely
4. Lasting for only a limited period of time
5. A hamlet is a small human settlement.
7. Urban geography is a sub-discipline of human geography1that studies the development of cities and towns and the people in them.