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The United States' original "megalopolis" -- sometimes called the "Boston-Washington corridor" -- stretches from Boston, Massachusetts (in the northeast extremity), through New York City, to Philadelphia, and Baltimore, to Washington, D.C. (in the southern extremity).
The Northeast megalopolis, also known as the Northeast Corridor, Acela Corridor, [5] Boston–Washington corridor, BosWash, or BosNYWash, [6] is the most populous megalopolis exclusively within the United States, with slightly over 50 million residents as of 2022. It is the world's largest megalopolis by economic output.
The Great Lakes megalopolis consists of a bi-national group of metropolitan areas in North America largely in the Great Lakes region.It extends from the Midwestern United States in the south and west to western Pennsylvania and Western New York in the east and northward through Southern Ontario into southwestern Quebec in Canada.
Northeast megalopolis (United States) (top) and TaiheiyĊ Belt (bottom) A megalopolis may also be called a megaregion. "Megalopolis" and other similar terms have been used by different scholars and countries to describe similar spatial forms. The São Paulo macrometropolis in Brazil
According to Georgia Tech, the Piedmont Atlantic represents over 12 percent of the total United States population and covers over 243,000 square miles (630,000 km 2) of land. The Piedmont Atlantic megaregion is just one emergent megalopolis (also known as a megaregion) of eleven such regions in the continental United States.
Major cities and population density along the Boston to Washington corridor as it appeared in the year 2000. BosWash is a name coined by futurist Herman Kahn in a 1967 essay describing a theoretical United States megalopolis extending from the metropolitan area of Boston to that of Washington, D.C. [1] The publication coined terms like BosWash, referring to predicted accretions of the ...
Northeast megalopolis (13 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Megapolitan areas of the United States" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
U.S. Census Bureau regions and divisions. Since 1950, the United States Census Bureau defines four statistical regions, with nine divisions. [1] [2] The Census Bureau region definition is "widely used... for data collection and analysis", [3] and is the most commonly used classification system.