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Explain the classification of urban settlement on the basis of population size.

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Census of India classifies urban centres in the six following classes.

(a) Population of more than one lakh people is called a city or class I town.
(b) Cities accommodating population size between one to five million are mega cities.
(c ) `61%` of population living in urban areas lives in class I town.
(d) Out of 423 cities, 35 urban agglomerations are metros, 6 of them are mega cities with one fifth `(21.01%)` of ppopulation.
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