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Some metropolitan areas include more than one large historic core city; examples include the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News (Hampton Roads), Riverside–San Bernardino (Inland Empire), and Minneapolis–Saint Paul (Twin Cities).
For example, for U.S. cities, the list uses Metropolitan Statistical Areas as defined by the United States Census Bureau, and for Canadian cities the list uses Census Metropolitan Areas as defined by Statistics Canada.
The area of the Greater Washington metropolitan area is an example of statistically grouping independent cities and county areas from various states to form a larger city because of proximity, history and recent urban convergence. Metropolitan areas may themselves be part of a greater megalopolis.
Since urban areas are composed of census blocks and not cities, counties, or county-equivalents, urban area boundaries may consist of partial areas of these political units. Urban areas are distinguished from rural areas: any area not part of an urban area is considered to be rural by the Census Bureau. The list in this article includes urban ...
The New York metropolitan area, the third most populous metropolitan area in the Americas with a population of 20,140,470 as of 2022. The list of metropolitan areas in the Americas has the top 50 most populous as of the most recent census results or projections. It is impossible to definitively compare and rank areas because each country may ...
For the second year in a row, two Texas metropolitan areas are leading the country in terms of growth. The Dallas-Fort Worth area added 152,598 residents between July 2022 and July 2023, according ...
This list ranks the top 150 U.S. cities (incorporated places) by 2024 land area. Total areas including water are also given, but when ranked by total area, a number of coastal cities appear disproportionately larger. San Francisco is an extreme example: water makes up nearly 80% of its total area of 232 square miles (601 km 2).
Mexico City New York City Los Angeles Chicago Toronto Washington, D.C. San Francisco Dallas Houston Boston. This is a list of the largest urban agglomerations in North America.It includes the 50 most populated urban agglomerations as determined by either CityPopulation.de or Demographia.