A metro area consists of the city limits of a major city and the surrounding smaller towns and suburban communities. A Metro Area can be a 25 to 30-mile radius.

@scottmartin5990

9 ай бұрын

US metropolitan areas are always defined along county boundaries -- and in western states those counties can be quite large. The Riverside metro area in California contains only 2 counties, but both stretch all the way to the Nevada border. Of course most of that territory is the Mojave Desert, so all the population lives on the western edges. But that still puts the metro area at over 70,000 square km. Nearly the size of Scotland!

@theylied1776

9 ай бұрын

@@scottmartin5990 if you say so, but I live in Atlanta I know exactly where they're getting that 6.7 million metro area population from. It's within a 25 to 30 radius. Places like Alpharetta, Griffin, Conyers, Fayetteville, and Peachtree City.

@kristend344

9 ай бұрын

It can be *a lot* bigger than that! I live in one that is bigger than that, and I'm in a smaller "big" metro.

@HRConsultant_Jeff

9 ай бұрын

Or in the Los Angeles case they may be including 3 counties in that number from Riverside to LA and south to Anaheim, not sure.

@kristend344

9 ай бұрын

@@scottmartin5990 I live in a county that is larger than Rhode Island (Includes two of the largest cities in my state.) - the overall metro area here takes in areas from three counties, but geographically large areas of those same counties are considered rural, not "metro" and fall under rural land use laws. The DFW metro includes at least six counties. Its geographic size (9,2++ square miles) is bigger than Rhode Island, Delaware, and Connecticut combined. It has a population of 7.5 million people.

The figure for Chicago was definitely for the metropolitan area of Chicago and not just the City of Chicago proper. The city itself has a population of 2.75 million. I live in the city and have for most of my life. Chicago is a wonderful place to visit especially May-September.

@armanii4005

9 ай бұрын

yes, they are all Metropolitan areas

@mikeg.4211

9 ай бұрын

They are all metro areas, not just Chicago. It's right in the title.

The a & b numbers are cities that are right next to each other, but are considered different metropolitan areas, at least by this list. The US Census Bureau, which defines these things in the US, has them as part of the same combined metropolitan statistical area - which is a bit different from a single metropolitan statistical area. So Tampa, St Petersburg, & Clearwater are all one combined metropolitan statistical area. The same goes for Minneapolis-St Paul, San Francisco & Oakland, as well as Dallas-Ft Worth.

@citisoccer

9 ай бұрын

All are separated by water, I think.

@msmilder25

9 ай бұрын

they're the same in the video, since they have identical population figures (it's a shared population) for example, 4a Dallas is listed with 7.57m and 4b Ft Worth with 7.57m...they don't BOTH have 7.57m, that's the combined population of Dallas-Ft Worth, but the two urban areas have separate downtowns (which is what the flyover cam features in the video), so they split them into two parts of one entry...just trying to be clear.

@txheadshots

9 ай бұрын

@@citisoccerdfw is not separated by water

@karenSU45526

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I noticed that too. San Francisco, Oakland and was it San Jose? All would be the Bay Aream

@acslater017

9 ай бұрын

@@karenSU45526I live in the Bay Area and always thought it was strange that SF-Oak was one statistical area and SJ another. I have friends and family all over both of these and we all consider it the Bay Area. I’m biased but personally I see the Bay as being #4 behind Chicago around 7.7 million. But maybe other regions could argue for merging too. 😊

Riverside metro technically is a suburb of Los Angeles

In the pic of Metro Detroit on one side of the water is Canada. I grew up about 10 minutes from the tunnel to Canada. Detroit now has the arguably the most beautiful riverwalk in the country.

Regarding Detroit - lots of people left the city proper to move to the suburbs. In other words, the metro area still includes those people.

From the US Census: Metropolitan Areas. Page 1. The general concept of a metropolitan area (MA)1 is that of a core area containing a large population nucleus, together with adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that core.

The a and b is two cities in one metropolitan area. It's similar to New York City and Brooklyn used to be two seperate cities. Soon after the Brooklyn bridge connected them, people started to refer to them as one city.

@nancybrewer8494

9 ай бұрын

Agree. Normally Dallas-Ft. Worth is referred to a metro area. They say DFW to refer to it.

@jadem9223

9 ай бұрын

Actually the reason people began referring to Brooklyn as a part of New York city is because in 1898 the five boroughs, which were each separate cities at the time, were legally consolidated into a single city. In the late 1890's there were campaigns to unify the five separate cities into one. Manhattan (New York county) and Brooklyn (Kings county) were staunchly against it. The Bronx, Queens (which was farmland at the time) and Staten Island (Richmond county) were mostly in favor. It was only voted in by a slim margin of 277 votes. Once consolidated within one municipal government, a new city charter was formed, which eliminated the charters of the former five cities. With that everyone was a part of the same city, and slowly began referring to themselves as such. The Brooklyn Bridge opened fifteen years prior, in 1883. People didn't began referring Brooklyn as part of New York City because of the bridge. But I understand what you were trying to say.

This video is of metro areas. People hear alot about the decline of Detroit, but that is referring to the city. Alot of people moved from the city itself to the suburbs but they are still in the metro area. The metro area has one of the highest concentrations of engineers in the USA.

I grew up in New York City (1960s), so the size and the density seemed normal to me. Then my family moved to a rural town in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. The town had a population of about 600 at the time in six square miles. More people lived on my block in Manhattan than lived in that entire town!

Many of those areas were very early settlements. People tended to settle near rivers and lakes because that was how they got goods thru trade commerce or made goods back then. The cities expanded over time resulting in high populations.

Silicon Valley is a global center of technological innovation located in the South San Francisco Bay Area of California. The area was named after the primary material found in computer microprocessors. Silicon Valley is home to dozens of major technology, software, and internet companies....Yes Millie Sacramento is the capital of California...💛

@gregrathbone986

9 ай бұрын

“Silicon Valley,” is actually a nickname that gained prominence in the 1970’s. The area’s actual geographical name is “The Santa Clara Valley.” The whole of the Santa Clara Valley was strictly agricultural, primarily Cherry, Apricots and Prune orchards. My family moved to Sunnyvale in 1962. That was the beginning of the entire area from Mountain View to San Jose’s urbanization. Tract homes and strip malls replaced the fruit orchards year by year until by 1972 the orchards were gone.

How pretty they look from the air, but some are in serious decay!

Yup. People did move out of the city of Detroit but tons of them moved into the suburbs which are included in the metro Detroit area. Metro Detroit is quite the sprawl.

@wolfe6220

9 ай бұрын

There are some amazing abandoned structures in Detroit that few people outside of the area are aware of. Hopefully, the city can be revitalized.

@alboyer6

9 ай бұрын

@wolfe6220 it will be interesting to see the train station ford baught all fixed up.

Keep in mind that San Francisco and Oakland are right next to each other with Silicon Valley right down the road, DC and Baltimore are right next to each other, Dallas and Fort Worth, la, San Diego and riverside are an hour away from each other. So they are a lot more massive areas than you think.

Silicon valley is computers. "Silicon" refers to the chemical element used in silicon-based transistors and integrated circuit chips. Home to Adobe, Alphabet, Apple, Cisco, eBay, HP, Intel, LinkedIn, Meta, Nvidia, Paypal, and Zoom.

@BTinSF

9 ай бұрын

It got the name because the area used to be about hardware and the manufacture of transistors and computer "chips" but no longer. Most of that stuff is now made abroad and "Silicon Valley" is mostly about DESIGN, not manufacture of semiconductors and the hardware that uses them like computers and cell phones, as well as software.

Raleigh is only now bigger than Charlotte. Charlotte was the biggest in North Carolina only until the last census.

Each state is technically a separate country within the United States. The conglomerate of the countries makes up the United States. Each state has a governor who is pretty much the president of the state. Each state also has its own separate senate, House of Representatives and constitution. The federal government is the entity that binds all the states together using the same currency and agreed upon laws.

@BTinSF

9 ай бұрын

Uh, not really. If they were separate countries, they'd be eligible for their own seats in the UN and they'd have Presidents or Prime Ministers, not Governors. Finally, their sovereignty would not be subservient to the Constitution of the US which limits the powers of states--No state law can supersede the Constitution as was tested during the Civil War.

Detroit is still a car maker, about 17 percent of U.S. and 11 percent of North American vehicle production occurs in Michigan.

The lake in Oakland, CA is Lake Merritt, but the whole area around it is a bit dodgy, like be sure to be gone by sunset.

San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose are all part of the greater Bay Area which also includes other cities such as Berkeley, Richmond Ca. It also includes wine country to the north and the tri valley to the east .

Metro does mean the city and the surrounding areas, even when there are towns around the big city.

Hi guys! I live in Fort Worth, Texas, about 35 miles west of Dallas. They listed both of us separately, but the two, along with Arlington, which is in between us along with dozens of smaller cities and suburbs form what is known as the Metroplex, or sometimes just DFW. I believe if you consider the Metroplex as one metropolitan area, it is number 4 or 5. Anyway, you can travel west from far east Dallas to west of Fort Worth and never encounter an empty space. All in all not a bad place! Any day now Millie, James, eh. Even I'm excited, can't imagine how you guys feel!

Sacramento is the State Capital of California. All States have a State Capital (the „Capitol“ is the building). The counties within a State each have a County Seat, which is its administrative center.

2:07 The Memphis Pyramid is a Bass Pro Shop store. Everything outdoors, fishing, and hunting. It was originally built as an arena for 20,000 people. 321 ft tall.

Silicon Valley is all tech and tech startups basically. The banks are on Wall Street in New York on the other side of the country.

@johnalden5821

9 ай бұрын

There are a couple of regional banking centers, as well, such as Charlotte, NC.

@hikikomori69

9 ай бұрын

Don’t be silly. San Francisco is venture capital central which is why silicon valley exists.

@ThatSoonerGuy

9 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠​⁠@@hikikomori69while that may be true because venture capitalism will always be present and prevalent around innovation, the name “Silicon Valley” originated from the influx in tech startup companies. Many of them have remained there since their inception, which in turn has led to many other tech companies forming there due to witnessing the sheer volume of tech’s success there in general. There has been an absurd amount of technological success in that small region. It makes sense though because it allows companies to network with each other among other likeminded companies who target similar customers for different products. I’m a major tech nerd and enjoy all sorts of different tech, especially innovative. Silicon Valley has increased the speed in which tech advances due to pressure among companies competing to outdo one another. Long story short and TL:DR, Silicon Valley is called Silicon Valley due to the area being known for having a plethora of startup tech companies launch their company there. Lol

@Lina_unchained

9 ай бұрын

@@johnalden5821 yes of course! But silicon valley is not the main banking or financial epicenter of the country.

@johnalden5821

9 ай бұрын

@@Lina_unchained No argument here. I agree with you. I was just adding on to the comment about New York being the banking center. Silicon Valley, is the tech center of the U.S., as you said.

For Memphis, the pyramid lookin' thing is a basketball arena, fondly referred to as the 'Tomb of Doom'...

NYC METRO area encompasses parts of Connecticut & New Jersey. Manhattan,which many refer to as NYC is a sliver of an island with over 1.6 mil people. You can walk it east to west in abt an hr at its widest at a normal pace. NYC proper is the 5 boroughs totaling over 8.6 mil.

You're probably thinking of Ridgemont High because of the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High with Sean Penn.

Milwaukee Metro includes Ozaukee, Washington,Waukesha, and Racive County.

I live just outside of Detroit. You are correct, there was a time when the population was much larger.....before manufacturing moved south. Then crime increased. Just want to say you 2 are the sweetest couple☺☺

Thanks you guys enjoyed

I live in the Nashville TN area. I can only speak for this area but around Nashville there are 14 counties that make up the metropolitan area. Stats have to show so many people travel from a certain county into the city for work, once it hits a certain percentage it is considered part of the metropolitan area. And those numbers can differ just like Nashville has just under 700,000 people but the metropolitan area has roughly 2,000,000. Atlanta has just over 600,000 people but they're metropolitan area has over 7 million.

The city of Detroit has fewer than 700,000 people. The suburban area around the city has most of the population.

Here in North Texas, the Dallas and Fort Worth metro areas are considered one and the same because there's no real break between them. Interesting to see them listed as separate but tied in place on this list. *7 million in each city didn't sound right to me as someone who lives here, so I looked it up and the number presented for both cities is the Total population of the entire Dallas-Fort Worth metro area. I think now they listed them as "tied" to show what both cities look like.

@Furball-8994

9 ай бұрын

I'd say that you could apply the same thinking to Tampa/St.Pete or Minneapolis/St. Paul and move them higher up on the list.

@AriDanielsMusic

9 ай бұрын

@@Furball-8994 Fair guess that natives to those areas probably view it that way, just like we do here with DFW. I'd wager whoever created the listing wasn't from the US.

@Furball-8994

9 ай бұрын

​@@AriDanielsMusicThe problem with these lists is the "metro" definition. I think that a cities population should be just that, Within the city limits. Look at Phoenix for example. How do you define that when you consider that half of Scottsdale and half of Glendale are within Phoenix city limits and you have Mesa, Chandler Peoria and Surprise that border it? Then you have New York City. Most people think "New York" is the island of Manhattan, They forget about the other 4 burrows, And how much of that 13mil is outside of even that.

Yes, both individual states, and the country as a whole each have a “capital”. Though ‘counties’ instead have a ‘county seat’.

Also DC a Baltimore, yes both cities are like 40 min drive apart both are separate metro areas and Baltimore is in the state of MD where DC is its own federal district with a city inside.

6:51 St Paul Minnesota also has a Cathedral of Saint Paul, and it's breathtaking. Maybe you should review a video on cathedrals or monumental churches of the US.

Chicago used to be the second largest city in the US

Think of each state as its own country. They each have their own government, with a governor that leads it. The federal government just ties them all together. 👍

@Kim-427

9 ай бұрын

You guys should explain that these cities are in states. Millie said I wonder if Ohio will be there? It was Cincinnati and Columbus are in the state of Ohio.

Maybe Pittsburgh gives you NYC vibes by the similar positioning of the larger buildings at the end of of a piece of land that appears to jet into the water, though Pittsburgh's case is that the city was created at the intersection of 3 major rivers. The Allegheny, the Ohio, and the Monongahela.

Millie you are definitely correct when you think of "metro" places. Yes, with these examples the population is in the millions but so many people live in the suburbs that work in the city. At one time it seemed like an actual large commute to the metro/city. Now it seems like all the suburbs have grown together. For example Cincinnati, Nashville, and Denver areas and their suburbs have all grown together.

@allenhill1223

9 ай бұрын

I've lived in kansas City kansas. And I don't even recognize the metro and more. I would say 60 miles radius

I’m surprised you didn’t realize Chicago was so big. It used to be the second largest city in the US. It is a young city, but it grew because it was a transportation hub. Almost all goods from the west to the east came to Chicago directly or to St. Louis then Chicago. Before Hollywood, cinema was done in Chicago, most of the commercials were developed and filmed in the city. It also had the most amount of candy companies in the country, too. All of these things helped the city grow. It’s a beautiful city. Too bad it’s not ever on anyones radar. Lovely beaches, great museums, vibrant nightlife, friendly people, a lovely place (for the most part, every place has issues, for sure).

Silicon Valley is a bunch of little towns/cites in a close area that are all about hi-tech. Apple, google, etc. San Jose is the largest, and the location of the airport.

San Francisco and Oakland, as you may know, are at opposite ends of the Oakland Bay Bridge and connected by a subway system, traveling under the Bay, that takes about 7 minutes between downtowns so it's only a quirk of the way these metros are decided that they are not a single metro of about 7.7 million

I live in metro Orlando and it's several counties surrounding Orlando that make up the metro. Ofcourse Disney World/Universal studios is our biggest tourist attractions. Chicago is huge and in my opinion the skyline rivals New York.

Hi from the Sacramento metro area (yes it's the capital). I always find it hard to believe the area has got over 2.3 million people now since growing up around here this was always sort of a "cow town". Well I forget until I get on the freeways at rush hour...

@jenniferpearce1052

9 ай бұрын

There was a horse in a field across from my bff's house. Now, there's a whole subdivision of nearly identical houses there.

@Winnywoo

9 ай бұрын

@@jenniferpearce1052 Yep, my mom moved to Elk Grove (just south of Sacramento) in the late 1960s when it was largely pastures/farms and only about 2000 people. Now Elk Grove has about 180,000 people and, except for the outskirts, no pastures.

@jenniferpearce1052

9 ай бұрын

@@Winnywoo I ran out of gas on 80 in Elk Grove and couldn't find a gas station! Nothing but identical houses everywhere!

Dallas/Fort Worth is one big metro area including multiple cities over a million plus Dallas and Fort Worth themselves.. on a map, the metro area is similar in size to the state of Connecticut

Watching this is a good way of seeing why something like the electoral college in the US is as important as it is. You look at LA and New York City where so much of the population vote 80% one way and there being over 30 million combined in just those 2 metro areas. Add in Chicago (again like 80% one way), and Detroit and that's almost a full half population wise of the popular vote (for one side) of the last 2 elections. The most important part of the last election being that Ol' Joe not only pulled the popular vote but within that were more counties (unlike Clinton who lost in over 200 of 300 polling counties nationwide) and that's where the popular vote coincides with the state wins and most folks are like "the right person won" where as in 2016 you had a situation where Trump lost the popular vote but due to the amount of counties nationwide, he won more states and thus the national election, the results don't look right. This is a perfect representation imo of why, here, the electoral college is necessary. Wasn't trying to make this political at all just a bit of rumination.

@gacaptain

9 ай бұрын

The electoral college is complete BS. designed originally just to keep some states from feeling like their votes didn’t count whether they deserved to count or not and to allow rich white male land owners to make sure they had a more powerful say in the outcome of elections. The popular vote is the only way that makes sense if a fair just election is what you are really interested in.

Also depends on the area some people don't consider a area where they from the same as the area described like Miami area which is commonly called South Florida becUse of other areas like Fort Lauderdale they don't consider themselves part of Miami either though most of the time they are lumped together when regarding as a metro area

Just to give you some perspective. The Phoenix metro area covers 14,599 square miles. It would take up half of Ireland!

San Jose (syllicon valley) is where computers came from originally Apple & Microsoft were originally based there

AB metros are same metro Minneapolis St.Paul are same metro and Dallas and Fort Worth are same metros, Tampa and St. Petersburg are same metro too, and some of the metros are apart of an actual larger metro like San Francisco Bay metro includes Sant Jose as apart and Oakland

The Chicago metro area is huge, and it is a great city (or was until recently).

El Paso, Albuquerque, LA, San Diego and Denver. You live where the work is. Didn't exurb until 1995 ... been happier ever since.

A metro area is the area around a city. It is not a whole state. Chicago was #2 for a very long time. Most Europeans vastly underestimate Chicago's size and influence, since it's not on a seacoast (it's on a Great Lake coast).

Its odd that they have San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose in separate metro areas. The SF bay area is around 10 million people, not 3 meyro ateas of 4, 4, and 2….

3:14 Silicon Valley.... yes James, thats where the banks are..... bless his heart 😂

@BTinSF

9 ай бұрын

The main bank that was there, Silicon Valley Bank, is no longer as you may recall. Most Bay Area banking is now in San Francisco as it has been for 150 years.

Silicon Valley has some banks, but it is know as the technology corridor of the US. Apple, Facebook, Intel, Oracle, Google, Paypal, Visa etc. are all there

NYC metro is massive. The northeast is so populated all the metros blend together. Philadelphia metro blends in to NYC metro blends into New Haven CT metro with very little quiet areas splitting up the metro areas

The exodus of Detroit affected the city only. Folks stayed in the metro area and moved out to the suburbs.

We don’t pronounce Birmingham like y’all do. It is Bir-Ming- ham

Phoenix Metro is over 5 million now and growing.

Fun fact: #38 Providence's metro area (1.62 million) is the only one more populous than its own state. It consists of nearly all of little Rhode Island's 1.1 million people plus about 600,000-700,000 in neighboring Massachusetts. The same is true for Washington and the District of Columbia, but D.C. is not a state.

I grew up in a suburb of L.A. and now reside in a suburb of Houston. It's been big cities all my life with the exception of when I lived in Europe but it was still a medium city in its own right and a couple of years in a small medium city North Carolina.

Big cities are awful to me. I raised my kids in a little mountain town with a population of 450 spread over 35 sq miles. The oldest graduated in a senior class of 7 and my youngest had a whopping 9 seniors in her class. You couldn't pay me enough to live in a city.

You keep saying states but this is the population for just individual cities.

The one with A and B share the same metro area and a metro area is the population of the city and a defined area of its suburbs. I’m pretty sure you guys did a reaction to a similar video by “World According to Briggs”. Also tourists do not count twords the population, Vegas really has that many people.

We also have New Hampshire, UK Has Hampshire

I was completely surprised by some of these, this fas fun! I was really surprised that Florida had that many areas listed and I really liked what you had to say when Detroit came up. That was a surprise to me as well because in 1981 my parents visited Destin Florida 20 minutes from where the Truman show the movie was filmed, and they never left. I was born in 1983, I turned 40 tomorrow lol If it weren’t for this video, it just occurred to me from what you said about Detroit and people leaving, if it hadn’t has been, I wouldn’t have grown up where I did in the sunshine. Sending love to you and yours from Orlando Florida.

Hi from Chicago!

24 for me!! But 30 years near Chicago, first.

Recent updates to the census changes a couple rankings. This video is a bit old. They now how Miami at 9 and Atlanta at 8. But current estimates is that Atlanta will move ahead of Philadelphia by the next census.

And this video is 4 years old.

Minneapolis & St Paul are across the Mississippi River from each other. Minnesotans refer to then as the Twin Cities or just The Cities & we use that to represent the suburbs too. The Twin Cities suburbs have grown a lot in the last 5 decades. My aunt had the 2nd house built on one farm as their suburb grew in the early 1980s & my sister's house was built 2 blocks away from my aunt 5 or 6 years later when they expanded in that direction. Their suburb is huge now! St Paul is Minnesota's Capitol & there is a Cathedral across the highway from the Capitol building. The stadium in Minneapolis is the Minnesota Vikings Football Stadium (US Bank Stadium). It's fairly new - the Metrodome was in that spot starting in the 1980s until they built the new one. The Vikings & the Minnesota Twins Baseball team played at "the Dome" - the Twins have their own stadium on the other side of the skyscrapers (I didn't notice it in the photo). The Minnesota Wild Hockey team has an area across the bridge/river in St Paul. I don't watch them much anymore, but the Minnesota Timberwolves have an arena in downtown Minneapolis & there's more professional sports teams like soccer now too. The hockey arena (The Met Center) & football stadium (The Metropolitan Stadium) were in the suburbs when I was a kid in the 1970s & 1980s - they were torn down for the Mall of America & moved into Minneapolis & St Paul. The Metrodome was built in the earlier 1980s & the last Minnesota North Stars game in the Met Center was played in 1993 (I was there on my 21st birthday right before) & the Stars moved to Texas. The Met Center location is a parking ramp for the mall now & there was a stadium seat hung up in the Mall of America where the stadium was. I've only been to the Mall of America once - on my 21st birthday. I live in Northeastern Minnesota & it's a 3 to 3.5 hour drive down to the Cities from here.

@hollyheikkinen4698

9 ай бұрын

For size comparison, my county in Northeastern Minnesota is larger in space than a few Northeastern States but it's much lower in population because we have a lot of lakes, forests, rivers, etc where people don't live. I live in the middle St Louis County with Duluth at the southern part of the county & Canada at the northern end.

The ones that had a and b are a combined total, not each one. Dallas / Ft. Worth is one metro area with 2 nearby large cities. Minneapolis and St. Paul are known as the twin cities.

#22 Charlotte (NC) is a banking city. Hello Queen City!✌🏻

a and b are two cities that usually are associated with each other. Tampa and St. pete have always been associated with each other and share a governmental system. Minneapolis and St. Paul are literally right next to each other separated by a single river. they are closely linked in economy and what they do. Orlando has close relations with several cities in central florida but its all differently run as usually Orlando proper gets something first then other cities get whatever next. The high speed train is going from the airport to Miami in a hurry but all other counties around are waiting to see if it works out then figuring out if its right for them in the next few years.

@lilyz2156

9 ай бұрын

The Brightline high speed train started service on Friday, sept 22nd Miami to Orlando roundtrip. I've ridden in the past when it was just Miami, Ft Laud. to West Palm Beach, stations are nice and clean and well serviced. It was smooth and not crowded, really nice ride. Miami to Orlando in 3.1/2 hrs, I drive to Orlando in 3hrs 1/2 with no stops, hmm? When they open the Brightline to Disneyworld station, I will consider that one.

@scitizenkane1

9 ай бұрын

Part of the KSTP Building sits in Minneapolis AND St Paul, other than areas where the two cities meet on land...it is mostly bordered by the Mississippi River

according to Wikipedia the metropolitan area of Birmingham England has 4.3 million people. So I think that comes in around that of Detroit for a comparison. London has 14.8n million, so it would be second in the US sightly larger than LA. A couple of other notes, the city of Detroit has shrunk from well over 1 million people to under. But most of those people moved to the suburbs, and so count in the metro area. Boston, which is high on the list of metro areas, is actually a comparatively small city. What explains that is that the suburbs are very populous. A number of its suburbs would be part of the city elsewhere. The claim about Philadelphia and skyscrapers is funny because when I was growing up there were none. Philadelphia's very interesting city hall (it looks like architects asked a number of "should we do this or that" questions and got back the answer "both") has a statue of William Penn on the top. And there was a law saying no building could be taller than Penn's feet. But that was limiting the office space in the city, so they created a zone where buildings could be taller than Penn. Even that wound up being limiting, so I think the law is gone altogether.

So, that number for the New York metro population is often referred to as the "tri-state area". That counts for all the dense populations that travel to and from New York City on a regular basis. We're talking roughly 30 miles outside the city in all directions. This includes parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, a bit of Pennsylvania, upstate NY, and the rest of Long Island (eastern end of NY). NYC at the official limits is around 8.5 million.

The suburbs are exponentially bigger in population and area than cities themselves. The majority of Americans live in suburbs, then cities, then rural areas. Sone of the metro areas core cities are super small populations in comparison to metro area, like St Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Boston as examples. Some cities which are not as densely populated but have a lot of land and annex to grow, like Houston, which is sprawling.

Just so you know when it says something like 4a and 4b it’s the same metro area because the cities are basically next to each other. Dallas-fort worth, Minneapolis-st Paul, San Fran-Oakland etc are kind of two halves of one city. Not quite but you know what I mean

I wouldn't live in any of those cities. I was born in Nashville TN in 1965 and when it got big, I left. Too many people cramped together

I wonder if they counted Kansas City in MO only, or if they also included KC Kansas. The metro areas are right next to one another. I saw them list Dallas/Ft. Worth and Minneapolis/St. Paul.

Turn up the volume

Well at least my city made the list - Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Chicago is not an iconic State it's an iconic City😂

Y'all commented about every city, except when they said 31 Kansas City, crickets. As a person from there, I found that hilarious, and a bit sad.

Chicago has been one of THE major cities of the US for a lonnnnng time. New York rules the East, Chicago has the Middle, and Los Angeles has the West.

@axlFoleyBeverlyHillsPo

9 ай бұрын

Im in Indianapolis and would agree….I Travel to Chicago Often and have a lot of family In Chicago. I don’t know why Foreigners are so clueless about the city 😂! I Love NYC but Chicago feels more like my 2nd home

This must include a lot of suburbs indys pop is only 887K and portland is 652K

@user-rb4cj7mb8f

2 ай бұрын

Thats what metro area implies, greater than just the city limits but the suburbs that many people often commute from as well. For example nyc includes the whole of long island and the NY counties bordering the bronx, parts of NJ and Conn as well as even a tiny part of Pennsylvania

New Jersey is where all counties is metropolitan but doesn’t mean it’s nothing but cities

Basically mist of the USA population is on the east side the further west you go the more spread cities are and people are with the exception of Southern Claifornia and North california

Yes, States have capital cities. That's because a State _is_ a country. The USA is fifty countries and a number of territories scattered around the Western Atlantic and Pacific oceans that are subordinate to a Federal over-government. States have their own elected ruler called a Governor, their own legislatures for creating and passing laws, and their own military forces which are called militias as a general term. This includes ground and air forces. In some of the coastal States, there are even naval forces. State laws are supposed to not contradict with federal laws, and the militias are subject to being called upon to serve as part of the federal military; in fact, State militias and reserve units make up about 38% of the total manpower available to the federal government.

It might be weird, but yes, we have such huge populated cities, but when i traveled out west in the United States, i passed through a city with a population of 7, lol. America is diverse. Still want to come across the pond!!!

@theDon_Dre

8 ай бұрын

A city? With a population of 7? Not 700? Not 7000? Just 7? How is that a city LOL? That could be a large household. Do you remember what state this was in?

James, the element silicon is used extensively in high tech industries such as computers, so the Silicon Valley is a high tech manufacturing area. Also, at 3:27 you nailed it. Metro area means the city and surrounding suburbs. #32--Columbus, OH, is the home of Ohio State, whose halftime video on Hollywood Blockbusters you reviewed several years ago (just in case you'd forgotten that). Austin, TX, is the state capital. Correct--Sacramento is the capital of CA. Good job! You may know already--Tampa and St. Petersburg are both on Tampa Bay. Since IL has around 12.8 million, roughly 75% of the population is in Chicago.

Cincinnati !! Love the Tri-state 👍

In simple terms, a "metro area" is a city, or cluster of city's, and the surrounding area including towns, suburbs, rural land, and wilderness, that is under the influence of that city/cities.

Hello from Denver Colorado. The current population in the City and county of Denver is almost 5 million. In a year 2020 22.5 million people moved to the City and county of Denver from other states

Metro areas differ from separate civic centers or cities. A metro area is the population of all interconnected cities of the urban area...for example Los Angeles is one city, but it's metropolitan area includes 315 cities, nearly all of which have their own mayors, their own city councils, business communities, etc. Some of them are old cities that got bigger and grew together, but many of them were neighborhoods or housing expansion areas that blew up and size until they were able to form their own cities. Still others were segments of larger cities that broke away to form their own cities. Urban centers around the country saw a huge suburban exodus in the 1950's and 1960's with people leaving urban centers for lower density centers on the city fringes as well as massive numbers of people moving to the city from elsewhere, and even today, new housing developments continue to increase the footprint of the urban landscape. The split cities, in most cases, are where historically separate cities got bigger and bigger, until they merged into one large metropolitan area. Most of the time, the largest of the two (three or more) cities that form these hyphenated metro areas is listed first...Dallas-Fort Worth for example. But others, give precedence to history San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose (which was not included but should be)...San Francisco (815k pop) was one of the largest cities in America at one time, but today, the city is largely landlocked with little ability to expand outward, Oakland (on the other side of the bay) is 434k squeezed between the bay and the Diablo mountain range, while San Jose has more than 983k people and is less constrained than the other two large cities and continues to expand...but they don't call it the "San Jose" metropolitan area just because it's the largest city of the area. Some of the metro areas expand over state lines as well: New York's footprint includes New York State & New Jersey areas (mostly) but the urban area does stretch from Connecticut to Pennsylvania as well; Kansas City crosses the Missouri River between Missouri and Kansas...while on the other side of the state St. Louis is contained inside Missouri, but cities on the other side of the Mississippi River in Illinois are considered part of its metro area; Philadelphia is mostly in Pennsylvania, but crosses into New Jersey and parts of Delaware; Washington completely fills the District of Columbia and spills out into both Virginia and Maryland; Chicagoland (the Greater Chicago area) consumes Northeastern Illinois and spills into both Indiana and Wisconsin...this complicates elections for sure, as the interests of the greater city, may come into conflict with the different states it crosses and visa versa. Think about Illinois...more people live in Chicago than the rest of the state combined...9.5m live in Greater Chicago of the 12.67m who live in all of Illinois.

Hello James, Millie and Baby Boy Beesley. Love your reaction. James, you already did it.