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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': The court itself has gigantic proportions, its full size has yet to be revealed.
* ''[[Shifters]]'': The comic takes place in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MegaCity[Mega City|Shade City]] a [[Mega City]] that encompasses a vast amount of territory in the Pacific Northwest.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The proper term to describe cities- more specifically, Broad-stroke regions- that have reached extreme levels of population and urban development is ''Megalopolis''. The following examples listed below all qualify, as most of them are a chain of metropolitan areas that are closely connected to each other that they have begun to overlap.
* According to [[The Other Wiki]], there are about [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population:List of urban areas by population|as many people in Jakarta]] [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population:List of countries by population|as there are people in Australia]] (especially if you count Jakarta's satellite cities and zones).
** There are about as many people in Tokyo as there are people in [[Canada, Eh?|Canada]]. Makes [[Tokyo Is the Center of The Universe|a certain trope]] feels juuuuust a little bit [[Justified]].
** If Tokyo were a seperate country it would be the 34th most populous in the world, after [[Useful Notes/Poland|Poland]].