exurb

plural exurbs

1. A residential area beyond the suburbs.

   I had my first taste of a collapsing exurb last night.

   2008 July 21, Megan McArdle, “Exurbs delenda est”, in The Atlantic

   2 more examples

   Lots of cities are exurbs of other cities for reasons of finance or infrastructure.

   2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 91

   Miles of exurbs bristle with hundreds—no, thousands—of apartment towers. These monoliths soar like gigantic dominoes into a dust-whitened sky. The area was hand-tilled cornfields when Lui grew up in Xi’an in the 1980s.

   2023 July 7, Paul Salopek, “China's Hinge”, in National Geographic, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2023

   Synonyms: exurbia