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Basic Concept
Sometimes the terms city and urban are use interchangeably but there are distinctions between the two concept. In social, science literature , urban is used to refer to a quality of life that is typically found in cities, In reality, urban is both a process and a place , as the urban process cannot occur without the resources, population , and economic base.
Urbanization is the process of concentrating people in a relatively small geographic area. It is related to social change and growth. From a demographic perspective, it refers to an increase in the number and size of centers of population in a society. Related to urbanization is urbanism which in way of life found in cities with its complex of traits, including a high degree of impersonalism, cultural heterogeneity, predominance of secular values, and extreme division of labor.
Total population
Rural Population
Urban Population
Percent
1990
60,684,887
31,192,033
5.14
29,492,855
4.86