International Journal of Humanities Social Sciences and Education · 2018 · 13 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesDemographyUrban PlanningUrban DemographyUrban DevelopmentUrban GeographyPopulation ChangePopulation GrowthUrban ExpansionUrban GrowthUrban RegionsUrban Spatial DistributionPopulation SizePopulation Size MeasurementUrban ConcentrationUrban Population DistributionUrban Population GrowthUrbanization Processes
Urbanization is the process of being urban area with some significant demographic and socio-economic development. It is the process that leads to specialization, industrialization, economic growth and concentration of population. In Nepal, criteria in defining urban area are changing over the time. However, different acts and agencies have adopted population size, and annual income and availability of infrastructure as the major criteria in defining urban area. Being least urbanized country, the process of growing urban center and population has increased from 10 urban area with 2.9 percent population in 2052/54 to 217 with 41.7 percent in 2015 AD in Nepal. The newly adopted administrative structure after the 2015, has declared 293 urban areas where 62 percent people live. Still the distribution of urban areas and population is by province and ecological zones.