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Greater St. Louis is the 21st-largest metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the United States, [3] [4] the largest in Missouri, and the second-largest in Illinois.Its core city—St. Louis, Missouri—sits in the geographic center of the metro area, on the west bank of the Mississippi River.
On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated six combined statistical areas, seven metropolitan statistical areas, and 18 micropolitan statistical areas in Missouri. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL CSA, comprising the area around St. Louis.
Geography of St. Louis. St. Louis is located at 38°38′53″N 90°12′44″W. [1] The city is built primarily on bluffs and terraces that rise 100–200 feet (30–61 m) above the western banks of the Mississippi River, just south of the Missouri -Mississippi confluence. Much of the area is a fertile and gently rolling prairie that features ...
The statistical criteria for a standard metropolitan area were defined in 1949 and redefined as a metropolitan statistical area in 1983. [3] Due to suburbanization, the typical metropolitan area is polycentric rather than being centered around a large historic core city such as New York City or Chicago. [4]
St. Louis, Missouri. Cleveland, Ohio. Buffalo, New York. ... Our ranking for the best and worst cities for getting outdoors started with the 50 most populous metropolitan statistical areas in the ...
Following are the metropolitan or metropolitan statistical areas of Missouri with population ... Metropolitan Area Population 2017 1 St. Louis: 2,817,355 2 Kansas City:
2022 rank Metropolitan area 2022 2021 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Population (2020) [4] 1: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA (Metropolitan Statistical Area)
The St. Louis metropolitan area is served by MetroLink (known as Metro) and is the 11th-largest light rail system in the country with 46 mi (74 km) of double track light rail. The Red Line and The Blue Line both serve all the stations in the inner city, and branch to different destinations beyond in the suburban areas.