List of metropolitan areas in the Americas

The following is a list of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the Americas.[1] 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.

List

Rank Metropolitan area Country Population
(2014)[1]
1 Mexico City[nb 1][2]  Mexico 20,976,700[3][4]
2 São Paulo  Brazil 20,847,500[5]
3 New York  United States 20,073,930[6][7]
4 Buenos Aires  Argentina 15,024,000[8][9]
5 Los Angeles  United States 13,220,970[6]
6 Rio de Janeiro  Brazil 12,460,200[5]
7 Lima  Peru 9,886,647[10]
8 Bogotá  Colombia 9,800,000[11][12]
9 Chicago  United States 9,568,133[6]
10 Santiago  Chile 7,164,400[13]
11 Dallas/Fort Worth  United States 6,937,652[6]
12 Houston  United States 6,448,841[6]
13 Philadelphia  United States 6,060,560[6]
14 Washington  United States 6,056,296[6]
15 Toronto  Canada 6,036,800[14]
16 Miami  United States 5,905,918[6]
17 Atlanta  United States 5,596,349[6][15]
18 Belo Horizonte  Brazil 5,595,800[5]
19 Boston  United States 4,725,601[6]
20 Guatemala City  Guatemala 4,703,865[16][17]
21 Guadalajara  Mexico 4,687,700[3][18]
22 San Francisco  United States 4,572,807[6]
23 Phoenix  United States 4,459,692[6]
24 Riverside  United States 4,436,415[6]
25 Monterrey  Mexico 4,344,200[3][18]
26 Tampa  United States 4,310,524[6]
27 Detroit  United States 4,286,134[19]
28 Porto Alegre  Brazil 4,120,900[5][20]
29 Montreal  Canada 4,011,200[14]
30 Brasilia  Brazil 3,976,500[5]
31 Recife  Brazil 3,908,000[5]
32 Fortaleza  Brazil 3,904,600[5]
33 Medellin  Colombia 3,900,000[11][12]
34 Salvador  Brazil 3,820,200[5]
35 Seattle  United States 3,663,399[6]
36 Minneapolis  United States 3,491,620[6]
37 Curitiba  Brazil 3,395,400[5]
38 Caracas[21]  Venezuela 3,260,200[22][23][24]
39 San Diego  United States 3,250,477[25]
40 Campinas  Brazil 2,854,200[5]
41 Puebla  Mexico 2,816,100
42 St. Louis  United States 2,807,760[6]
43 Baltimore  United States 2,789,289[6]
44 Denver  United States 2,746,768[6]
45 Cali  Colombia 2,600,000[11][12]
46 Vancouver  Canada 2,476,600[14]
47 San Juan  Puerto Rico 2,461,200[26]
48 Charlotte  United States 2,373,917
49 Pittsburgh  United States 2,361,681
50 Portland  United States 2,343,984

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Notes

  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

  1. 1 2 http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports2/2015/01/22-global-metro-monitor
  2. ↑ State Population Council. "Mexico City Metropolitan Area" (PDF) (in Spanish). Government of the State of Mexico. Retrieved 9 December 2009..
  3. 1 2 3 "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2010, Resultados Preliminares" (in Spanish). INEGI. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
  4. ↑ "Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México" (PDF) (in Spanish). Gobierno del Estado de México. Retrieved 12 February 2011.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Population figures from the sum of the municipalities' population: IBGE
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
  7. ↑ "Annual Estimates of the Resident Population: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2014 – Combined Statistical Area; and for Puerto Rico - 2014 Population Estimates". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  8. ↑ United Nations World Urbanization Prospects (2009 revision)
  9. ↑ Data for Buenos Aires refer to Gran Buenos Aires.
  10. ↑ "PERÚ: ESTIMACIONES Y PROYECCIONES DE POBLACIÓN TOTAL POR SEXO DE LAS PRINCIPALES CIUDADES". Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica (INEI) (in Spanish). Scribd. March 2012. p. 32. Retrieved 28 October 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 Duncan Smith. "World City Populations 1950 - 2030". Retrieved 18 December 2015.
  12. 1 2 3 "Bright lights, big cities. Urbanisation and the rise of the megacity". economist.com. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  13. ↑ "Región Metropolitana de Santiago" (PDF) (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas. Retrieved 22 December 2012.
  14. 1 2 3
  15. ↑ United States Office of Management and Budget
  16. ↑ INE (2013). "Caracterización Departamental, Guatemala 2012" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Guatemala: Gobierno de Guatemala). Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 June 2014.
  17. ↑ Population Data (2012). "Población de áreas metropolitanas". Population data (in inglés). Archived from the original on 26 December 2013. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
  18. 1 2 INEGI Delimitación de las zonas metropolitanas de México 2005
  19. ↑ America: metropolitan areas "America: metropolitan areas" Check |url= value (help). World Gazetteer. Retrieved March 19, 2011.
  20. ↑ Total population of the microregião of Montenegro, São Jerônimo, and Porto Alegre.
  21. ↑ ALVAREZ, Rosangel. "Actualmente el área metropolitana de Caracas abarca el Valle Mayor de la Capital. Su área estaría comprendida por asentamientos dentro del área de influencia de la capital: Los Teques, Carrizal, San Antonio y demás poblados situados en los Altos Mirandinos, al suroeste; en los Valles del Tuy Medio, al sur; en los valles de Guarenas y Guatire, al este; y en el Litoral Central, al norte; así como en el Junquito y el Junko, al oeste (Fundación PECM, 1999: 33)." (PDF). CONHISREMI. Revista Universitaria de Investigación y Diálogo Académico. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
  22. ↑ http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/elecciones/2013/municipales/circunscripciones/CabildoMetropolitano.pdf
  23. ↑ http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/elecciones/2013/municipales/circunscripciones/Miranda.pdf
  24. ↑ http://www.cne.gov.ve/web/normativa_electoral/elecciones/2013/municipales/circunscripciones/Vargas.pdf
  25. ↑ "World Gazetteer – San Diego-Tijuana". Archived from the original on 2007-10-01.
  26. ↑ U.S. Census Bureau -- Annual Estimates of the Population of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas in Puerto Rico (2011)

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