The term Megalopolis is derived from Greek and means "very large city." Sorry to say, Megalopolis is normally referred over to the East coast of the United States stretching from Boston to Washington D.C.
French Geographer Jean Gottman studied the northeastern United States during the 1950s and published a book that described the region as a vast metropolitan area also known as Megalopolis. Gottmann , along with his findings, he also introduced two developing Megalopoli in the United States - from Chicago and the Great Lakes to Pittsburgh and the Ohio River (ChiPitts) and the California coast from the San Francisco Bay area to San Diego.
The city of San Francisco along with Oakland, San Jose, Napa Valley, Monterrey and other places were commonly referred to as a Megalopolis in its own but not even closely compared to the megalopolis in the Eastern side of United States
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