Satellite city

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What Wikipedia says

A satellite city or satellite town is a smaller municipality or settlement that is part of (or on the edge of) a larger metropolitan area and serves as a regional population and employment center.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Satellite city”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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