English Explanatory Dictionary

desakota

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An area in the extended surroundings of a large city, especially in Southeast Asia, in which urban and agricultural forms of land use and settlement coexist and are intensively intermingled.

Word forms

desakota desakotas

Etymology

Coined around 1990 by urban researcher Terry McGee, from Indonesian desa, village, and kota, city.

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