BRITISH COUPLE REACTS | The Largest Metro Areas in the US

[@theylied1776]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

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]

@@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.

[@ContentinMesa]

Riverside metro technically is a suburb of Los Angeles

[@dagmar0027]

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]

All are separated by water, I think.

[@msmilder25]

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]

@@citisoccerdfw is not separated by water

[@karenSU45526]

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

[@acslater017]

@@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. 😊

[@peterjamesfoote3964]

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]

yes, they are all Metropolitan areas

[@mikeg.4211]

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

[@dalemoore8582]

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

[@ericburton5163]

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.

[@alboyer6]

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]

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]

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

[@fionaspath3332]

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]

“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.

[@TheEclecticBeard]

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]

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.

[@betsyduane3461]

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]

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.

[@christopherstephenjenksbsg4944]

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!

[@Lina_unchained]

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]

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

[@hikikomori69]

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

[@ThatSoonerGuy]

⁠​⁠​⁠@@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]

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

[@johnalden5821]

@@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.

[@Mr_Dopey]

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]

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

[@jadem9223]

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.

[@elsk8tefan]

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.

[@stellaz2595]

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

[@sharonduffey]

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.

[@charliedavis8894]

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.

[@pete56]

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

[@markwalker1144]

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

[@raamjames1]

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

[@kenziedayne4234]

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

[@trmn8r677]

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]

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.

[@spinalobifida]

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

[@betsyduane3461]

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

[@billyjones1311]

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

[@hikikomori69]

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….

[@OrondeBranch]

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.

[@torstenheling3830]

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.

[@wakeup6826]

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.

[@MichaelW-vj6wx]

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]

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.

[@mermaid1717]

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

[@sarahgeraghty2124]

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 .

[@jameshuston9589]

I usually like your videos. Had to turn this one off. Felt like I was on hold.

[@randalmayeux8880]

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!

[@sharonmullins1957]

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☺☺

[@peterjamesfoote3964]

Hi from Chicago!

[@dalemoore8582]

Chicago used to be the second largest city in the US

[@halicarnassus8235]

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

[@citisoccer]

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.

[@AxelFoleyDetroitLions]

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

[@kathleenchilcote9127]

Silicon valley is big tech not banks

[@mikeg.4211]

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).

[@elsk8tefan]

And this video is 4 years old.

[@ronsontag6841]

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

[@AriDanielsMusic]

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]

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]

@@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]

​@@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.

[@timfeeley714-25]

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

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

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

[@BTinSF]

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.

[@Winnywoo]

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]

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]

@@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]

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

[@willp.8120]

As of 2023, the ranking is now: 1) New York 2) Los Angeles 3) Chicago 4) Dallas-Fort Worth 5) Houston 6) Atlanta 7) Washington 8) Philadelphia 9) Miami 10) Phoenix

[@vimelendez4796]

We also have New Hampshire, UK Has Hampshire

[@richneedre48]

Metro area is like ..take London for example...theres a bunch of diff. Broken up areas...like west...etc...etc..put all those together and thats what they are using for math ✌️✌️✌️

[@lesterstone8595]

Is James trying to look like a MATURE father with his full beard? What happened to clean-shaven James?👨‍👩‍👦

[@shaner9155]

The UK has a population of 67.3 million while England has about 56.5 million.

[@skyjust828]

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

[@AxelFoleyDetroitLions]

Chicago Is Too underrated by foreigners….They All have heard of Al Capone, but Never know anything about Chicago lol! “Sweet Home Chicago”.

[@skynets_favorite_cyborg]

I grew up in Sacramento. Millie is correct. It is the capital of California. 26 out of 50. Not too shabby i guess 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@GP80888]

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

[@warrendavis9262]

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

[@rea3645]

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

[@jadem9223]

The metro area breakdowns give a somewhat skewed image of the populations. City limit populations give a better idea of density. Manhattan has almost 1,700,000 million people living on 22.83 square miles (59.05172891 square kilometers.) That's a lot of people packed on a pretty small island.

[@micheller.8370]

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.

[@GilaMonster971]

Would never live in a big city ever again. Too many people, too expensive, too noisy, too polluted, too much crime/drugs/homelessness. My town I live in now has 700 people in it. So much more peaceful.

[@JPMadden]

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.

[@rich7447]

On the other end of the scale, Wyoming is bigger than the UK and has a population of 580,000.

[@danielsullivan9271]

Yes. NYC (over 8 million now) Urban NJ Newark Jersey City Irvington Hillside Elizabeth Linden Perth Amboy Oranges Hoboken Bayonne is about 2 million. Then another 500,000 Urban NY Yonkers to Urban strip of Connecticut Greenwich Stamford. 10.5 plus million Urban Suburbs close to 10 million too. Other definitions would be 14 million. Native New Yorkers live in suburbia. Native NY NJ people 1970s 70 percent 2000 was like 50 percent down to 25 percent in Urban areas. Go to games many concerts and many people who work in the urban areas are mostly Native New Yorkers. Suburban people or their parents to grandparents and some great grandparents came from the Urban parts. Most people here in suburban NJ most came from the city. I was born and raised in Brooklyn. Nicest part still more Native New Yorkers still Marine Park and close to the Rockaways Queens. Enclaves or Irish and Italians that never left the city. Outer or outskirts of the city looks suburbs feel. British and Irish cousins felt it was suburbia like Richmond or Hampton in London. Felt at home. They were treated like celebrities with their accents. Definitions sometimes say 14 million in suburban areas. Like London. They just say Greater London like over 8 million but some suburbs added beyond 12 million and some definitions they call con-urban close to 15 million. I know British Londoners people in Surrey Suffolk Kent Buckinghamshire Berkshire Essex plus Hertfordshire came from London originally and moved out there the past couple of decades. And considered London their hometown. I know definitions of Metropolitan Areas. I know my Geography. Love it. It always fascinated me since I was a kid. Especially the USA. Europe especially my ancestry from my Dad British Isles and my mom side Italian. That was considered typical New Yorker 20 years ago. Imagine 1950 2 million NYC Irish Catholic. 2 million Italian. 1.5 million Jewish and 1 million British Scottish Protestant types 1 million 1 million others Russian Polish German Scandinavian especially Norwegian Greek French Syrians etc. Small groups. Many left for suburbs or outer parts of the city starting 1950s 1960s 1970s. 80s 90s to today leaving outer parts now too for suburbs. Cultures fascinate me. That’s why you see so much Italian influence. Suburbs have up to 30 to 40 percent part or full Italian and others part or fully Irish 30 to percent of some towns. Pub Bar culture sports bars restaurants Irish dominate. Italians do cafes delis etc. 40 percent plus Italian restaurants and pizzerias. Not Pizza Hut etc. Or Subway. Italian markets like Uncle Giuseppe’s and others all over. People wonder why because NY NJ had so many Irish and Italians. Me mixed between the two British people in the past said odd combination. As their children and grandchildren became more American they married each other one big reason 60s 70s 80s and now. Religion whether they are religious or not, they married each other. Schools in suburbia and Catholic Schools mostly Irish Italian and a few Polish etc. I understand culture and so many influences in parts of the USA. Like Germans and Scandinavian in the Upper mid West. Ancestry and 23 and me did Americans in the USA 65 percent of dna results were from the British Isles. They didn’t depopulate. There were supposed to be over 100 million British Irish Scottish origin in the USA in 1990. Many from before the Civil War time or Colonial Era. They had a new category American mostly British Irish from mid west but many from the SE. SE didn’t have many immigrants less than 10 to 20 percent were descendants of immigrants after 1870 German Irish Catholics etc. Before mainly British Irish Scottish descended from the Colonial era. Later they married Germans in Upper Mid West French in the Mississippi Valley Italian in Northeast and Dutch. Today Hispanics. Hispanics number 62 million part or full. Half are fully ( Spaniards like Ricky Martin casta like Jen Lopez Mark Antony 20 million or Indigenous or Mestizos(12 to 16 million) So many up 20 million like Cameron Diaz Christiana Aguleiria Charlie Sheen half or 1/4 Hispanic. NY area many Puerto Ricans married Italians and Irish especially in the suburbs. California Arizona and Texas huge intermarriage 40 to 50 percent of Hispanics merry into European Americans. Integrating. 10 million Americans say they have maybe 3 to 6 percent Native American since the Colonial times Native American women especially marrying British settlers in 17th and 18th Century another reason why we have only 3 million part of full Native American. Full more live in SW of the USA. Navajo especially. Cherokee you can claim 25 percent or less sometimes Native American. Sadly because of the benefits tax breaks and getting scholarships which I think it’s unfair for the fully Native Americans. A lot of wrong still or unfair policies no checking. Fascinating cultures of the USA. Winston Churchill’s mom was I think 3 to 6 percent Native American going back to Colonial Times but they kept that hushed up. She was supposed to be fully American to British English Ancestry. Now it’s cool to claim but I think it is silly to fully claim and only have 3 to 6 or even 12 or 25 percent because too many also claim for benefits that come with it like I said. Sadly they are doing it in Canada Australia and New Zealand. I feel they disenfranchise native peoples especially their chances on benefits and scholarships tax breaks meant for them. People get away with it sadly.

[@mrrajsingh]

"Oh I have heard of Richmond, the highschool there, Richmond High!" Only small towns would name the highschool after the city, In Richmond VA there are 54 schools, 11 of them are highschools, so they all have different names, usually after presidents or whatnot, but it would be pretty presumptuous for one to be like, "Yeah lets call ourselves "RICHMOND HIGHSCHOOL! The Best and ONLY school in Richmond!" You should do a video on how the schools work in Jersey, what the grades you go through are, how to graduated, the difference between public and private schools etc, I know lots of this is different between England and USA but I wonder if Jersey has any interesting quirks that are even different than england! How many schools are in Jersey?

[@Gloren50]

US cities have a core city with contiguous suburban cities/towns around it. A metropolitan statistical area includes the core city with those suburban jurisdictions and is calculated according to the county populations. Most states are divided into counties, cities, towns, all of which are incorporated, and then unincorporated populated areas that have names but are not legal jurisdictions. I live in Portland OR that has a city government, a county government and a metro government. That's not usual. Normally, it's just city and county governments. The Metro area is comprised of 7 counties, 5 in Oregon and 2 in Washington, pop, about 2.6 million in 2022. Portland/Multnomah County has about 820,000 inhabitants and the other counties around Portland have another 1.8 million. There's another metric called the Consolidated Statistical Area, which includes cities and towns outside of a MSA, but there's a significant pattern of travel and commuting between the larger Metro and the exurban populations. The Portland CSA includes Salem OR (70 km to the south) and Longview WA (70 km to the north) and has about 3.2 million. (The CSA adds another 600,000).

[@rayleneknight8718]

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]

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

[@johnbradleytlh]

Poor video (not you guys, the video you watched). They listed several metro areas twice. Tampa/St. Petersburg (Tampa Bay Metro Area), Minneapolis-St.Paul (Twin Cities Metro Area), San Francisco and Oakland (Bay Area), Dallas-Fort Worth are all single metro areas. A metro area is a continuous urban area that usually consist of a central city and it’s suburbs, though some metros like the ones counted twice can contain more than one major city.

[@msmilder25]

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.

[@cpMetis]

Metro Area is a very grey zone type of thing. It's meant to include satellite cities and towns that are effectively just extensions of the city - like a suburb for LA where everyone who lives there works, shops, and spends in LA and just drives there to sleep should really be considered more like a neighborhood of LA that's just a little off to the side. The problem is where to draw the lines. Ohio is a great example, because if you count only city-proper, aka the part legally directly under the city, Columbus is the largest city. But if you judge by metro population, it's Cincinnati. But if you define metro as counting any continuous urban development reliant on the "main" city - which is sometimes how metro is calculated - it's Cleveland. Except if you get even looser you can say everything from Springfield OH to Covington KY is actually the Cincinnati metro, including Dayton, at which point it's back to being Cincinnati. (All of the "three C's" of Ohio have very similar populations which make them good for these sorts of semantics debating) And you can't just take what the country calls a "city" as your measuring stick, because some obviously go whack. For example, many of the absolutely bonkers Chinese city populations are half-truths, since some of the figures are actually counting a huge area that has large swaths of rural land but is just classified a "city" under Chinese law. Then there's situations like Minneapolis/St Paul, Dalls/Ft Worth, etc, where what were once two small cities have all but merged into one continuous city. Do you cut some arbitrary line in the clay and give each half of the surrounding area? If not, who subsumes who?

[@sukie584]

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.

[@philchristmas4071]

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.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

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.

[@bentighe4811]

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.

[@kazeryu17]

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.

[@mic1240]

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.

[@Liz-sz2ee]

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).

[@lonbecker113]

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.

[@gacaptain]

These figures are already way off. Populations of American metros are constantly changing (some drastically) and following the 2020 census that this video proceeded there were even bigger changes than in most years.

[@alanbrashier2610]

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.

[@gregweatherup9596]

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

[@jackdickenson5313]

And they got Houston and Dallas mixed up. Because Houston has more people in it than Dallas.

[@markwalker1144]

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[@BTinSF]

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

[@ScottieRC]

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.

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

Look for Arkansas state trooper ends 130mph car chase with head on collision.

[@larryfontenot9018]

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.

[@robertlarosejr.1535]

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.

[@cynsi7604]

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

[@brettsearle4520]

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

[@JoshColletta]

The definition of "metro area" depends on who you ask, really, but the federal government maintains their own set of definitions based on the size of the primary city or urbanized area and the economic and cultural influence on the surrounding counties. All of the metro areas on this list would be considered "Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas," which are regions with a primary city of at least 50,000 people or an urbanized area (a higher-density urban core) of at least 75,000 people, and a total metro population of over 1 million people. If the total metro population is BELOW 1 million people, it's not considered "primary," it's just a "Metropolitan Statistical Area." For this video, they're apparently including the largest primary cities in the MSA when there's more than one. Tampa and St. Petersburg are one single metro area, as are Minneapolis and St. Paul (that's the "Twin Cities" area). There are also **Micropolitan** Statistical Areas, which are centered around what you might generally consider "small towns" here in the U.S. Generally, the "urban core" of a μSA (as it's initialized) runs from 10,000 to 50,000 people. My own county is, in fact, its own μSA. The two central and largest cities, which share a border with each other, are home to a total of about 10,400 people, and the county altogether has a population of about 42,000. It is a very well-defined place from an economic and cultural standpoint -- so much so that Michigan's new electoral districting commission recognized that a town right on our eastern county line, while technically in the next county over, is so tied to OUR county in identity that it belongs in OUR district for the state House of Representatives. I don't believe the μSA reflects that, but it probably should! And then there's the largest designation, the Combined Statistical Area, which is a combination of any number of contiguous MSAs and μSAs that form a large populated area. For example, in my native Florida, the current Miami - Port St. Lucie - Fort Laudedale CSA is made up of the Miami - Fort Lauderdale - West Palm Beach MSA (Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties), the Port St. Lucie MSA (Martin and St. Lucie Counties), the Sebastian - Vero Beach - West Vero Corridor MSA (Indian River County), the Key West - Key Largo μSA (Monroe County), and the Okeechobee μSA (Okeechobee County). If you look at satellite and aerial photos of the developed area of South Florida, this makes complete and total sense: it's genuinely all one urban and suburban (and some exurban) area, but each of the MSAs has its own primary cities. However, all of those cities are connected economically and socially to Miami. In fact, Fort Lauderdale, while once having its own MSA prior to 1995, wouldn't even EXIST if Miami hadn't been founded. It's all become such a singular place that Wikipedia doesn't even have separate entries for each of them anymore, it all just points to the article "Miami metropolitan area." And for the record, the CSA population was just under 6.89 million people as of 2020 (and is actually a little more now because it didn't include Key West at the time of that census). But I have found that it's often closely tied to media markets. Take South Florida for example, again. Miami and Fort Lauderdale share TV and radio markets. All of the stations in Miami and Fort Lauderdale focus on Dade and Broward Counties, as do their advertisers. As a result, people generally think of Dade and Broward as one metro area (some Browardites like to think they're their own thing, but they're not... like I said, they wouldn't even exist without Miami). The Keys (Key West, Key Largo, and the whole archipelago) are generally thought of as their own metro area, because even though they rely on Miami for TV stations, they have their own radio market. West Palm Beach has its own TV and radio markets, with the TV market including all the way up to St. Lucie County and Fort Pierce (sometimes Indian River County and Vero Beach, as well, though there's some crossover there with the Orlando market). Additionally, each individual county in the area has its own major newspaper reporting on local matters. Despite the agglomeration, there are still separate local identities being maintained, mostly through media coverage. So, long story short, the definition of "metro area" can vary quite a bit. Also, as for Detroit, the metro area altogether wasn't what experienced a population collapse, it was the city of Detroit proper. It was once a city of 1.8 million people, but it is now down to just 639,000. Metro Detroit, however, actually maintained a relatively stable population in that time. Detroit had been developing a problem with crime after World War II into the late 50's, and by the 60's, it was turning absolutely HORRID. Federal government programs attempted to revitalize parts of the city, but of course, that was all being directed by and to the middle and upper class, and those who were getting none of the benefits -- mostly the working class and racial minorities -- wanted that funding to replace outdated housing in the city. Tensions grew and added to the crime and violence, culminating in a massive riot in 1967 that left 43 people dead, hundreds injured, over 7,000 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. Through all that time, the middle and upper classes were leaving the city in droves for the surrounding suburbs; what we commonly call "white flight" (since most people of color were not affluent enough to do the same). As a result, the City of Detroit's population has done nothing but decline ever since. There have been hopeful signs of things turning around in recent years, but the city has lost population in ever decennial census since 1960.

[@michaelhawkins7839]

Metro Detroit has shrunk over the last 25 years because of the changes in our economy.

[@kristend344]

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.

[@jdwilmoth]

These are some of the largest metropolitan area's population wise but not land wise

[@richardsbrandon5027]

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

[@TKDragon75]

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.

[@donovanminckler7801]

Oklahoma city metro is 25% of the state population

[@emarcellecole]

Silicon Valley is a global center for high technology and innovation

[@eMemoryCard]

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.

[@riccorich]

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