Eddie On Everything » MSA http://www.eddieoneverything.com Tips & tricks on things that interest me Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:29:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 List of the World’s 100 Most Populated Metro Areas http://www.eddieoneverything.com/lists/list-of-the-worlds-100-most-populated-metro-areas.php http://www.eddieoneverything.com/lists/list-of-the-worlds-100-most-populated-metro-areas.php#comments Sat, 03 Jun 2006 02:23:30 +0000 eddie http://www.eddieoneverything.com/lists/list-of-the-worlds-100-most-populated-metro-areas.php New York City may not top the list of largest cities in the world, but it rounds out the top three on a list of “largest metropolitan areas.”

Joining NYC on the list, we have Los Angeles coming in at 12, sweet home Chicago at 25, and Miami at 42. Miami as the fourth largest metro area in the United States? Are you kidding me?

Wow, I guess sometimes truth IS stranger than fiction. But then again, when you define the entire southern tip of Florida as your metro area, you’re gonna pick up a few stragglers.

Rounding out the top 60 are Philly, Dallas, Boston, Atlanta, and Houston. (Yes, that’s the same Houston that is the fourth largest city in the nation.) Washington DC barely misses the mark at 61.

I guess this list goes to show, it’s not about the raw numbers, it’s all how you define the parameters.

World’s Most Populated Metropolitan Areas

Rank Metropolitan
area name		 Definition Area
(mi²)		 Population
estimate
1 Tokyo(Greater Tokyo Area) Officialmetropolitan area (Keihinyo MMA) 5,211 35,237,000
2 MexicoCity (Greater Mexico City) Officialmetropolitan area (ZMCM) 1,922 19,013,000
3 NewYork City, New York–Newark, New Jersey (New York metropolitanarea) Urbanarea (FIPS 63217) 3,350 18,498,000
4 Mumbai(Bombay) (MMRDA) Administrativearea (MMRDA) 1,683 18,336,000
5 SãoPaulo (Greater São Paulo Area) Officialmetropolitan area 3,107 18,333,000
6 Delhi(National Capital Territory of Delhi) Administrativearea (NCT) 571 15,334,000
7 Kolkata(Calcutta) (Kolkata Metropolitan Area) Administrativearea (KMD) 687 14,299,000
8 BuenosAires (Aglomerado Gran Buenos Aires) Metropolitanarea 1,420 13,349,000
9 Jakarta(Jabotabek Metropolitan Area) Urbanizedarea 525 13,194,000
10 Shanghai Municipality(urban population) 2,509 12,665,000
11 Dhaka Officialmetropolitan area (Dhaka Megacity) 618 12,560,000
12 LosAngeles–Long Beach–Santa Ana, California (GreaterLos Angeles Area) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 51445) 1,668 12,146,000
13 Karachi Citydistrict 1,363 11,819,000
14 Rio de Janeiro Officialmetropolitan area 1,930 11,469,000
15 Osaka–Kobe(Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto) Urbanizedarea (administrative boundaries) (excludes Kyoto) 799 11,286,000
16 Cairo–Giza–ShubraEl-Khema Metropolitanarea 0 11,146,000
17 Lagos Urbanizedarea 247 11,135,000
18 Beijing Municipality(urban population) 6,489 10,849,000
19 Manila(Metropolitan Manila) Administrativearea (Metro Manila) 247 10,677,000
20 Moscow Cityproper (Federal city) 417 10,672,000
21 Paris Urbanarea (commune boundaries) 1,050 9,854,000[3]
22 Istanbul Metropolitanmunicipality 706 9,760,000
23 Seoul(Seoul National Capital Area) Cityproper (Seoul City) 235 9,592,000[4]
24 Tianjin Municipality(urban population) 4,609 9,346,000
25 Chicago,Illinois (Chicagoland) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 16264) 2,123 8,711,000
26 Lima(Lima Metropolitan Area) Officialmetropolitan area 1,085 8,180,000
27 London(Greater London Urban Area) Urbanarea 625 7,615,000[1]
28 Bogotá–Soacha Metropolitanarea 764 7,594,000
29 Tehran Cityproper 255 7,352,000
30 HongKong Special Administrative Region Administrativearea 425 7,182,000
31 Chennai(Madras), Tamil Nadu Administrativearea (CMDA) 455 6,915,000
32 Bangkok Officialmetropolitan area (Bangkok Metropolis) 606 6,604,000
33 Rhein-RuhrgebietNorth–Duisburg, Essen, Krefeld, Mülheim an der Ruhr,Oberhausen, Bottrop, Gelsenkirchen, Bochum, Dortmund, Hagen, Hamm andHerne (Ruhr Valley) Urbanarea (NUTS-3 boundaries) 1,737 6,566,000
34 Bangalore,Karnataka Administrativearea (BDA) 494 6,532,000
35 Lahore,Punjab Citydistrict 683 6,373,000
36 Hyderabad,Andhra Pradesh Administrativearea (HUDA) 718 6,145,000
37 Wuhan,Hubei Prefecture-levelcity (urban population) 3,277 6,003,000
38 Baghdad Governorate(province) 282 5,910,000
39 Kinshasa Province-levelcity (urban population) 3,845 5,717,000
40 Santiago(Santiago Metropolitan Region) Metropolitanarea 907 5,623,000
41 Riyadh Cityproper 598 5,514,000
42 Miami,Florida (South Florida) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 56602) 1,116 5,380,000
43 Philadelphia,Pennsylvania (Delaware Valley) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 69076) 1,799 5,325,000
44 Saint Petersburg Administrativearea (Gorod) 444 5,315,000
45 Belo Horizonte Officialmetropolitan area 3,547 5,304,000
46 Ahmedabad,Gujarat Administrativearea (AUDA) 502 5,171,000
47 Madrid Officialmetropolitan area 656 5,145,000
48 Toronto(Greater Toronto Area) Officialmetropolitan area (CMA) 2,266 5,060,000
49 Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Municipality(urban population) 807 5,030,000
50 Chongqing Prefecture-levelcity [pre-1997 borders] (urban population) 5,744 4,975,000
51 Shenyang,Liaoning Prefecture-levelcity (urban population) 5,003 4,916,000
52 Dallas–FortWorth–Arlington, Texas (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 22042) 1,405 4,612,000
53 Khartoum–KhartoumNorth–Omdurman Urbanizedarea (administrative boundaries) 0 4,495,000
54 Pune,Maharashtra Urbanizedarea 270 4,485,000
55 Barcelona Officialmetropolitan area 1,251 4,424,000
56 Sydney, New South Wales Metropolitanarea (Statistical Division) 4,686 4,388,000
57 SingaporeCity Cityproper 266 4,372,000
58 Boston,Massachusetts (Greater Boston) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 09271) 1,737 4,313,000
59 Atlanta,Georgia (Atlanta Metropolitan Area) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 03817) 1,961 4,284,000
60 Houston,Texas (Greater Houston) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 40429) 1,293 4,283,000
61 Washington, DC Urbanized area (FIPS 92242)(excludes Baltimore) 1,158 4,190,000
62 Chittagong Officialmetropolitan area (census definition) 382 4,171,000
63 Hanoi Metropolitanarea 830 4,147,000
64 Yangon Urbanizedarea 135 4,082,000
65 Bandung Urbanizedarea 85 4,020,000
66 Milan Urbanizedarea (administrative boundaries) 656 4,007,000
67 Detroit,Michigan (Metro Detroit) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 23824) 1,262 3,980,000
68 Guadalajara, Jalisco Officialmetropolitan area 1,054 3,905,000
69 Guangzhou,Guangdong Prefecture-levelcity (urban population) 2,872 3,881,000
70 Jeddah Cityproper 216 3,807,000
71 Porto Alegre Metropolitanarea 3,818 3,795,000
72 Alexandria,Al Iskandariyah Governorate Governorate 1,146 3,760,000
73 Casablanca (Region du Grand Casablanca) Administrativearea 625 3,743,000
74 Rhein-Main–Darmstadt,Frankfurt am Main, Offenbach am Main and Wiesbaden (Greater Frankfurt) Urbanarea (NUTS-3 boundaries) 1,351 3,721,000
75 Surat,Gujarat Urbanizedarea 77 3,671,000
76 Melbourne, Victoria Metropolitanarea (Statistical Division) 2,968 3,663,000
77 Ankara Metropolitanmunicipality 965 3,593,000
78 Busan(Pusan) Cityproper (Busan City) 293 3,527,000
79 Recife,Brazil Metropolitanarea 1,069 3,527,000
80 Monterrey,Nuevo León Officialmetropolitan area 1,548 3,517,000
81 Abidjan Cityproper 212 3,516,000
82 Montreal,Quebec (Greater Montreal Area) Metropolitanarea (CMA) 1,563 3,511,000
83 Chengdu,Sichuan Prefecture-levelcity (urban population) 4,767 3,478,000
84 Phoenix–Mesa,Arizona (Valley of the Sun) Urbanizedarea (FIPS 69184) 799 3,393,000
85 SanFrancisco–Oakland, California Urbanized area (excludes SanJose) 525 3,342,000[2]
86 Brasilia Metropolitanarea (RIDE) 5,558 3,341,000
87 Salvador Metropolitanarea 903 3,331,000
88 Berlin Berlincity state 344 3,328,000
89 Rhein-RuhrgebietMiddle–Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach,Remscheid, Solingen and Wuppertal Urbanarea (NUTS-3 boundaries) 579 3,325,000
90 Johannesburg Metropolitanmunicipality (excludes Ekurhuleni and West Rand) 633 3,288,000
91 Kabul Cityproper 0 3,288,000
92 Pyongyang Cityproper 814 3,284,000
93 Caracas Officialmetropolitan area 745 3,276,000
94 Fortaleza Metropolitanarea 1,911 3,261,000
95 Algiers Wilaya(province) 104 3,260,000
96 Xi’an Prefecture-levelcity (urban population) 3,852 3,256,000
97 Athens Urbanizedarea (administrative boundaries) 0 3,238,000
98 Medellín Metropolitanarea (Valle de Abura) 444 3,236,000
99 Nagoya Urbanizedarea (administrative boundaries) 259 3,189,000
100 CapeTown Metropolitanmunicipality 965 3,103,000

(Note- based on 2005 data)

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