List of metropolitan areas in the Americas

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This is a list of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the Americas. Official definitions of metropolitan area based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings are used where available. For cities in countries that do not have official metropolitan area definitions, the urban agglomeration concept is used instead. For the 50 largest cities in the Americas, see Largest cities in the Americas.

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Rank Metropolitan area Population Year
1 Mexico Mexico City[nb 1][1] 21,404,435[2][3] 2010
2 Brazil São Paulo 19,889,559[4] 2009
3 United States New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island MSA 19,015,900[5] 2011
4 Argentina Buenos Aires 13,074,000[6][7] 2010
5 United States Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana MSA 12,944,801[5] 2011
6 Brazil Rio de Janeiro 12,603,939[4] 2010
7 United States Chicago-Joliet-Naperville MSA 9,504,753[5] 2011
8 Peru Lima 9,367,587[8] 2007
9 Colombia Bogotá 8,493,675[9] 2005
10 Venezuela Caracas 7,001,874 2011
11 Chile Santiago 6,683,852[10] 2012
12 Canada Toronto-Hamilton 6,629,500[11] 2011
13 United States Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington MSA 6,526,548[5] 2011
14 United States Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown MSA 6,086,538[5] 2011
15 United States Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington MSA 5,992,414[5] 2011
16 United States-Canada Detroit–Windsor 5,760,344[12] 2010
17 United States Washington-Arlington-Alexandria MSA 5,703,948[5] 2011
18 United States Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach MSA 5,670,125[5] 2011
19 Brazil Belo Horizonte 5,403,050[4][13] 2007
20 United States Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta MSA 5,359,205[5] 2011
21 United States-Mexico San Diego–Tijuana 5,105,769 [14] 2010
22 United States Boston-Cambridge-Quincy MSA 4,591,112[5] 2011
23 Mexico Guadalajara 4,434,252[2][15] 2010
24 United States San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont MSA 4,391,037[5] 2011
25 United States Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA 4,304,997[5] 2011
26 United States Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale MSA 4,263,236[5] 2011
27 Guatemala Guatemala City 4,100,000[5] 2011
28 Mexico Monterrey 4,080,329[2][15] 2010
29 Brazil Porto Alegre 3,975,545[4][16] 2007
30 Canada Montreal 3,908,700[11] 2011
31 Brazil Recife 3,661,119[4] 2007
32 Brazil Salvador 3,599,538[4] 2007
33 Brazil Brasília 3,558,166[4] 2007
34 United States Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue MSA 3,500,026[5] 2011
35 Colombia Medellín 3,496,757[9] 2009
36 Brazil Fortaleza 3,376,883[4] 2007
37 United States Minneapolis-Saint Paul-Bloomington MSA 3,318,486[5] 2011
38 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 3,294,385[17] 2010
39 Brazil Curitiba 3,139,389[4] 2007
40 Guatemala Guatemala City 2,925,000[17] 2010
41 United States Tampa-Saint Petersburg-Clearwater MSA 2,824,724[5] 2011
42 United States Saint Louis MSA 2,817,355[5] 2011
43 United States Baltimore-Towson MSA 2,729,110[5] 2011
44 Colombia Cali 2,719,204[9] 2009
45 Ecuador Guayaquil 2,690,000[6][18] 2010
46 Mexico Puebla 2,668,347[2][15] 2010
47 United States Denver-Aurora-Broomfield MSA 2,599,504[5] 2011
48 Mexico-United States Juárez–El Paso 2,525,583 [12] 2010
49 Brazil Campinas 2,484,555[4] 2007
50 United States San Juan-Caguas-Guaynabo MSA 2,476,839[19] 2011

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  1. ^ According to the most recent definition agreed upon by the governments of the Federal District, the State of Mexico and the state of Hidalgo, the Mexico City Metropolitan Area is constituted by the Federal District (8,873,017, itself composed of 16 boroughs), 59 adjacent municipalities of the State of Mexico (11,166,673) and 29 municipalities of the state of Hidalgo (1,364,744). The current federal government (SEDESOL/CONAPO/INEGI) definition dates from 2005; on the basis of this definition the 2010 population is 20,137,152.

References [edit]

  1. ^ (Spanish) State Population Council. "Mexico City Metropolitan Area". Government of the State of Mexico. Retrieved 9 December 2009. .
  2. ^ a b c d "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2010, Resultados Preliminares" (in Spanish). INEGI. Retrieved 12 February 2011. 
  3. ^ "Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México" (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de México. Retrieved 12 February 2011. 
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Constituent municipalities as listed by Obervatorio das Metropoles. Population figures from the sum of the municipalities' population: IBGE
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t U.S. Census Bureau -- Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (2011)
  6. ^ a b United Nations World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision)
  7. ^ Data for Buenos Aires refer to Gran Buenos Aires.
  8. ^ INEI -- Lima Metropolitana region as defined in the 2007 census
  9. ^ a b c Metropolitan areas as defined by DANE in the 2005 census. The figures are from DANE official estimates.
  10. ^ "Región Metropolitana de Santiago" (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Retrieved 22 December 2012. 
  11. ^ a b Statistics Canada -- Population of census metropolitan areas
  12. ^ a b America: metropolitan areas "America: metropolitan areas". World Gazetteer. Retrieved March 19, 2011. 
  13. ^ Total population of the microregião of Sete Lagoas, Pará de Minas, Belo Horizonte, and Itaguara.
  14. ^ World Gazetteer – San Diego-Tijuana
  15. ^ a b c INEGI Delimitación de las zonas metropolitanas de México 2005
  16. ^ Total population of the microregião of Montenegro, São Jerônimo, and Porto Alegre.
  17. ^ a b Thomas Brinkoff -- The Principal Agglomerations of the World
  18. ^ Includes the population of the locality of Eloy Alfaro.
  19. ^ U.S. Census Bureau -- Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in Puerto Rico (2011)

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