peri-urban
Americanadjective
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adjoining or immediately surrounding an urban area; between suburban and rural.
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occurring, living, etc., in such an area.
Example Sentences
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For economists like Ashwini Deshpande of Ashoka University, the census is essential to update the basic map of India itself - what counts as rural, urban or increasingly peri-urban.
From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026
Farms in many parts of the country are in peri-urban areas, zones of transition from rural to urban land.
From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2022
People who die in those areas are less likely than town-dwellers to be brought to morgues, a legal requirement in the country, but only urban or peri-urban areas strictly enforce it, he explains.
From National Geographic • Dec. 22, 2020
“There’s not stockpiles, there’s not grain reserves. There’s not a kind of peri-urban agriculture that can supply a lot of the fresh produce if the supply chains break down.”
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2020
The Malawi Rural Electrification Programme is connecting people in rural and peri-urban areas, while the government has plans to increase hydro-electric generation capacity, he said by email.
From Reuters • May 25, 2015
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