urbanization

English

Alternative forms

• urbanisation

Etymology

urbanize +‎ -ation

Noun

urbanization (countable and uncountable, plural urbanizations)

1. the process of the formation and growth of cities
2. the change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas
3. the proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing

Translations

growth of cities

• Arabic: تَمَدُن m (tamadun)
• Armenian: քաղաքակենտրոնացում (kʻaġakʻakentronacʻum)
• Azerbaijani: şəhərləşmə, urbanizasiya
• Catalan: urbanització f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 城市化 (zh) (chéngshìhuà), 都市化 (zh) (dūshìhuà)

• Czech: urbanizace (cs) f
• Finnish: kaupungistuminen (fi)
• French: urbanisation (fr) f
• Galician: urbanización (gl) f
• German: Urbanisierung (de) f
• Greek: αστικοποίηση (el) f (astikopoíisi)
• Hungarian: urbanizáció (hu)
• Irish: cathrú m, uirbiú m
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• Italian: urbanizzazione (it) f
• Japanese: 都市化 (としか, toshika)
• Khmer: នគរូបនីយកម្ម (km) (nɔkɔɔ ruup niiyɔɔkam)
• Korean: 도시화 (dosihwa) (都市化 (ko))
• Portuguese: urbanização (pt) f
• Romanian: urbanizare (ro) f
• Russian: урбаниза́ция (ru) f (urbanizácija)
• Spanish: urbanización (es) f
• Turkish: şehirleşme (tr), kentleşme (tr)
• Uyghur: شەھەرلىشىش (sheherlishish)
• Vietnamese: sự thành thị hoá (sự (vi) + 城市化)
• Welsh: trefoli

change in region

• Armenian: քաղաքակենտրոնացում (kʻaġakʻakentronacʻum)
• Finnish: kaupungistuminen (fi)
• French: urbanisation (fr) f
• German: Urbanisierung (de) f
• Greek: αστικοποίηση (el) f (astikopoíisi)
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• Irish: uirbiú
• Italian: urbanizzazione (it) f
• Khmer: នគរូបនីយកម្ម (km) (nɔkɔɔ ruup niiyɔɔkam)
• Russian: урбаниза́ция (ru) f (urbanizácija)
• Welsh: trefoli m

proportion living in cities

• Armenian: քաղաքակենտրոնացում (kʻaġakʻakentronacʻum)
• Finnish: kaupungistumisaste
• Greek: αστικοποίηση (el) f (astikopoíisi)
• Italian: urbanizzazione (it) f
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• Khmer: នគរូបនីយកម្ម (km) (nɔkɔɔ ruup niiyɔɔkam)
• Russian: урбаниза́ция (ru) f (urbanizácija)
• Welsh: trefoliad m