Abstract
The aim of the article is to present the conception of an urban agglomeration and that of a metropolitan area in geography and physical planning as approached by Polish authors. Special attention is paid to relations holding between those conceptions, which are considered in terms of the morphological and the functional structure of a large city. A survey is made of what has been achieved in the delimitation of urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas in Poland. The opinion is expressed that a metropolis and a metropolitan area, which are concentrations of high-order socio-economic functions and internationally ranging links, are settlement forms more highly organised functionally than an urban agglomeration.
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