List of metropolitan areas in the Americas

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This is a list of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in America. 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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Largest metro areas in the Americas
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 19,069,796[5] 2009
4 Argentina Buenos Aires 13,074,000[6][7] 2010
5 United States Los Angeles 12,874,797[5] 2009
6 Brazil Rio de Janeiro 11,529,194[4] 2007
7 United States Chicago 9,580,567[5] 2009
8 Peru Lima 9,367,587[8] 2007
9 Colombia Bogotá 8,493,675[9] 2009
10 Canada Toronto 6,574,140[10] 2011
11 United States Dallas/Fort Worth 6,447,615[5] 2009
12 United States Philadelphia 5,968,252[5] 2009
13 Chile Santiago 5,952,000[6][11] 2010
14 United States Houston 5,867,489[5] 2009
15 United States Miami 5,547,051[5] 2009
16 United States Washington D.C. 5,476,241[5] 2009
17 United States Atlanta 5,475,213[5] 2009
18 Brazil Belo Horizonte 5,403,050[4][12] 2007
19 United States Boston 4,588,680[5] 2009
20 Mexico Guadalajara 4,434,252[2][13] 2010
21 United States Detroit 4,403,437[5] 2009
22 United States Phoenix 4,364,094[5] 2009
23 Venezuela Caracas 4,325,000[14] 2010
24 United States San Francisco 4,317,853[5] 2009
25 United States Riverside-San Bernardino 4,143,113[5] 2009
26 Mexico Monterrey 4,080,329[2][13] 2010
27 Brazil Porto Alegre 3,975,545[4][15] 2007
28 Canada Montreal 3,814,738[16] 2009
29 Brazil Recife 3,661,119[4] 2007
30 Brazil Salvador 3,599,538[4] 2007
31 Brazil Brasília 3,558,166[4] 2007
32 Colombia Medellín 3,496,757[9] 2009
33 United States Seattle 3,407,848[5] 2009
34 Brazil Fortaleza 3,376,883[4] 2007
35 Dominican Republic Santo Domingo 3,294,385[14] 2010
36 United States Minneapolis-Saint Paul 3,279,833[5] 2010
37 Brazil Curitiba 3,139,389[4] 2007
38 United States San Diego 3,095,313 [5] 2009
39 Guatemala Guatemala City 2,925,000[14] 2010
40 United States St. Louis 2,828,990[5] 2009
41 United States Tampa Bay 2,747,272[5] 2009
42 Colombia Cali 2,719,204[9] 2009
43 United States Baltimore 2,690,886[5] 2009
44 Ecuador Guayaquil 2,690,000[6][17] 2010
45 Mexico Puebla 2,668,347[2][13] 2010
46 Puerto Rico San Juan 2,617,089[18] 2009
47 United States Denver 2,552,195[5] 2009
48 Brazil Campinas 2,484,555[4] 2007
49 United States Pittsburgh 2,354,957[5] 2009
50 Canada Vancouver 2,328,007[16] 2009
Rank International Metropolitan area Population Year
14 United States-Canada Detroit–Windsor 5,760,344[19] 2010
19 United States-Mexico San Diego–Tijuana 5,105,769 [20] 2010
48 United States-Mexico Juárez–El Paso 2,525,583 [19] 2010
85 United States-Mexico McAllen–Reynosa 1,700,000[21][22] 2010
110 United States-Mexico Matamoros–Brownsville 1,136,995[23] 2010
157 United States-Mexico Laredo–Nuevo Laredo 775,481[24] 2010

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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.

[edit] References

  1. ^ (Spanish) State Population Council. "Mexico City Metropolitan Area". Government of the State of Mexico. http://www.edomex.gob.mx/poblacion/docs/2009/PDF/ZMVM.pdf. Retrieved 9 December 2009. .
  2. ^ a b c d "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2010, Resultados Preliminares" (in Spanish). INEGI. http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/TabuladosBasicos/preliminares2010.aspx. Retrieved 12 February 2011. 
  3. ^ "Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México" (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de México. http://www.edomex.gob.mx/poblacion/docs/2009/PDF/ZMVM.pdf. 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 v U.S. Census Bureau -- Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas (2009)
  6. ^ a b c 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. ^ "Error: no |title= specified when using {{Cite web}}". 
  11. ^ Referring to Gran Santiago which includes the Province of Santiago plus cities within the Provinces of Puente Alto and San Bernardo.
  12. ^ Total population of the microregião of Sete Lagoas, Pará de Minas, Belo Horizonte, and Itaguara.
  13. ^ a b c INEGI Delimitación de las zonas metropolitanas de México 2005
  14. ^ a b c Thomas Brinkoff -- The Principal Agglomerations of the World
  15. ^ Total population of the microregião of Montenegro, São Jerônimo, and Porto Alegre.
  16. ^ a b Statistics Canada -- Population of census metropolitan areas
  17. ^ Includes the population of the locality of Eloy Alfaro.
  18. ^ U.S. Census Bureau -- Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in Puerto Rico (2008)
  19. ^ a b America: metropolitan areas "America: metropolitan areas". World Gazetteer. http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=1&men=gcis&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-2&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&va=&pt=a America: metropolitan areas. Retrieved March 19, 2011. 
  20. ^ World Gazetteer – San Diego-Tijuana
  21. ^ "McAllen Overview". McAllen Chamber of Commerce. http://www.mcallen.org/Business-Community/McAllen-Overview. Retrieved 26 August 2011. 
  22. ^ "America: metropolitan areas (McAllen-Reynosa)". World Gazetteer. http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-2&srt=pnan&col=aohdq&pt=a&va=x. Retrieved 13 November 2011. 
  23. ^ "Matamoros-Brownsville". World Gazetteer. http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-2&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&pt=a&va=x&geo=-1049423. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 
  24. ^ "Laredo-Nuevo Laredo". World Gazetteer. http://world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gpro&lng=en&des=wg&geo=-2&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&pt=a&va=x&geo=-1049423. Retrieved 22 August 2011. 

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