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noun
An area in the extended surroundings of a large city, especially in Southeast Asia, in which urban and agricultural forms of land use and settlement coexist and are intensively intermingled.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: geography, natural-sciences
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History
Coined around 1990 by urban researcher Terry McGee, from Indonesian desa, village, and kota, city.
