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This is a list of urban areas in the United States as defined by the United States Census Bureau, ordered according to their 2020 census populations. An urban area is defined by the Census Bureau as a contiguous set of census blocks that are "densely developed residential, commercial, and other nonresidential areas".
Urban area Country Built-up land area (km 2) Population Urban population density (per km 2) Greater Los Angeles United States: 87,940 18,316,743 541.1 San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (Bay Area) United States: 26,390 9,710,000 953 New York City (New York City Metropolitan Area) United States: 12,093 20,902,000 1,728 Boston–Providence United ...
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.
In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Such regions are not legally incorporated as a city or town would be and are not legal administrative divisions like counties or separate entities ...
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 ).
This is a list of the fifty most populous metropolitan areas in North America. Where available, it uses official definitions of metropolitan areas based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings, as opposed to polycentric conurbations.
Rank Name Region Pop. Rank Name Region Pop. New York Los Angeles: 1: New York: Northeast: 19,498,249: 11: Boston: Northeast: 4,919,179 Chicago Dallas–Fort Worth: 2 ...
An urban area can be defined by one or more of the following: administrative criteria or political boundaries (e.g., area within the jurisdiction of a municipality or town committee), a threshold population size (where the minimum for an urban settlement is typically in the region of 2,000 people, although this varies globally between 200 and ...