Spatio-Temporal Distribution Urban Centres: A Case Study of Karnataka State

G Ramanna; Ashok D Hanjagi

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DOI: 10.53989/bu.ga.v8i1.5

Year: 2019, Volume: 8, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-28

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Spatio-Temporal Distribution Urban Centres: A Case Study of Karnataka State

G Ramanna¹, Ashok D Hanjagi²

¹Research Scholar, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bangalore
²Professor & Chairman, Department of Geography, Bangalore University, Bangalore

Received Date:12 January 2019, Accepted Date:23 May 2019

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Karnataka is the seventh largest urbanized state in India with 38.67% of urban population as of 2011. This paper is based on both primary and secondary data and the secondary data are collected from various government organizations Rural and Urban population composition is one of the important indicators of demographic composition. The trend in which the towns and cities of Karnataka expanded and the urban agglomeration in the last two decades are given emphasis in this paper.

Keywords: Urban agglomeration; urban primacy; urbanization

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