Satellite image of the Bangkok Metropolitan Region: The urbanized areas on the edges and along the arterial roads are desakota spaces.An urban fringe village located in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, China. Baiyun is well-known by the locals as a desakota area in Guangzhou.
Desakota is a term used in urban geography used to describe areas in the extended surroundings of large cities, in which urban and agricultural forms of land use and settlement coexist and are intensively intermingled.