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English
Etymology
From urbanize + -ation.
Pronunciation
Noun
urbanization (countable and uncountable, plural urbanizations)
- The process of the formation and growth of cities.
- The change in a country or region when its population migrates from rural to urban areas.
- The proportion of a region's population that live in towns and cities; the rate at which this proportion is growing.
Derived terms
Translations
growth of cities
- Albanian: urbanizim (sq) m
- Arabic: تَمَدُّن m (tamaddun), تَحَضُّر m (taḥaḍḍur)
- Armenian: քաղաքակենտրոնացում (kʻaġakʻakentronacʻum)
- Azerbaijani: şəhərləşmə, urbanizasiya
- Belarusian: урбаніза́цыя f (urbanizácyja)
- Bengali: নগরায়ন (nograẏon)
- Bulgarian: урбаниза́ция (bg) f (urbanizácija)
- Catalan: urbanització (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 城市化 (zh) (chéngshìhuà), 都市化 (zh) (dūshìhuà)
- Czech: urbanizace (cs) f
- Danish: urbanisering c
- Dutch: verstedelijking (nl) f
- Estonian: linnastumine, urbaniseerumine
- Finnish: kaupungistuminen (fi)
- French: urbanisation (fr) f
- Galician: urbanización (gl) f
- Georgian: ურბანიზაცია (urbanizacia)
- German: Urbanisierung (de) f, Verstädterung (de) f, Urbanisation f
- Greek: αστικοποίηση (el) f (astikopoíisi)
- Hebrew: עִיּוּר (he) m ('iyúr)
- Hindi: नगरीकरण m (nagrīkraṇ)
- Hungarian: urbanizáció (hu)
- Icelandic: þéttbýlismyndun
- Indonesian: urbanisasi (id)
- Irish: cathrú m, uirbiú m
- Italian: urbanizzazione (it) f
- Japanese: 都市化 (ja) (としか, toshika)
- Kazakh: қалалану (qalalanu), кенттену (kenttenu), урбанизация (urbanizasiä), урбандалу (urbandalu)
- Khmer: នគរូបនីយកម្ម (km) (nɔkɔɔruupaʼniiyĕəʼkam)
- Korean: 도시화(都市化) (dosihwa)
- Kyrgyz: шаардаштыруу (şaardaştıruu), урбанизация (urbanizatsiya)
- Latvian: urbanizācija f
- Lithuanian: urbanizacija (lt) f
- Macedonian: урбанизација f (urbanizacija)
- Malay: pembandaran
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хотжилт (xotžilt)
- Mongolian: ᠬᠣᠲᠠᠵᠢᠯᠲᠠ (qotaǰilta)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: urbanisering m or f
- Persian: شهرنشینی (šahr-nešini)
- Polish: urbanizacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: urbanização (pt) f
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ਹਿਰੀਕਰਨ m (śahirīkran)
- Romanian: urbanizare (ro) f
- Russian: урбаниза́ция (ru) f (urbanizácija)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: урбаниза́ција f
- Roman: urbanizácija (sh) f
- Slovak: urbanizácia f
- Slovene: urbanizacija f
- Spanish: urbanización (es) f
- Swedish: urbanisering (sv) c
- Tajik: урбанизатсия (urbanizatsiya), шаҳришавӣ (šahrišavi)
- Thai: นคราภิวัตน์, การกลายเป็นนคร, การกลายเป็นเมือง, การทำให้เป็นเมือง, การมีลักษณะแบบเมือง
- Turkish: şehirleşme (tr), kentleşme (tr)
- Ukrainian: урбаніза́ція f (urbanizácija)
- Urdu: شہرکاری f (śaharkārī)
- Uyghur: شەھەرلىشىش (sheherlishish)
- Uzbek: urbanizatsiya (uz)
- Vietnamese: sự thành thị hoá (事城市化), đô thị hóa
- Welsh: trefoli
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proportion living in cities
