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When is a nested sequence of closed sets a colimit?

Let $X$ denote a topological space and $X_0\subset X_1\subset \ldots\subset X$ a nested sequence of closed subsets of $X$ such that $$ \bigcup_i X_i =X$$ It is easy to see that in the general case $X$...