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Coined around 1990 by urban researcher Terry McGee, from Indonesian desa, village, and kota, city.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
desakota
Today it means: 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. Full definition →