List of metropolitan areas in the Americas

This is a list of the fifty most populous metropolitan areas in the Americas as of 2015, the most recent year for which official census results, estimates or projections are available for every major metropolitan area in the Americas. Where available, it uses official definitions of metropolitan areas based on the concept of a single urban core and its immediate surroundings, as opposed to polycentric conurbations. Figures refer to mid-2015 populations except in the case of Mexican metropolitan areas, whose figures derive from the 2015 Intercensal Survey conducted by INEGI with a reference date of 15 March 2015.[1]

List
Metropolitan area Country Population Year Notes
1 São Paulo  Brazil 21,090,792 2015 [2]
2 Mexico City  Mexico 20,892,724 2015 [3]
3 New York  United States 20,182,305 2015 [4]
4 Buenos Aires  Argentina 13,693,657 2015 [lower-alpha 1][6][7]
5 Los Angeles  United States 13,340,068 2015 [4]
6 Rio de Janeiro  Brazil 12,280,702 2015 [2]
7 Lima  Peru 9,904,727 2015 [lower-alpha 2][9]
8 Chicago  United States 9,551,031 2015 [4]
9 Bogotá  Colombia 9,286,225 2015 [lower-alpha 3][11]
10 Dallas–Fort Worth  United States 7,102,796 2015 [4]
11 Santiago  Chile 6,683,852 2015 [lower-alpha 4][13]
12 Houston  United States 6,656,947 2015 [4]
13 Toronto  Canada 6,116,725 2015 [14]
14 Washington  United States 6,097,684 2015 [4]
15 Philadelphia  United States 6,069,875 2015 [4]
16 Miami–Fort Lauderdale  United States 6,012,331 2015 [4]
17 Belo Horizonte  Brazil 5,829,923 2015 [2]
18 Atlanta  United States 5,710,795 2015 [4]
19 Caracas  Venezuela 5,322,310 2015 [lower-alpha 5][17]
20 Guadalajara  Mexico 4,887,383 2015 [3]
21 Boston  United States 4,774,321 2015 [4]
22 Monterrey  Mexico 4,689,601 2015 [3]
23 San Francisco–Oakland  United States 4,656,132 2015 [4]
24 Phoenix  United States 4,574,531 2015 [4]
25 Riverside–San Bernardino  United States 4,489,159 2015 [4]
26 Detroit  United States 4,302,043 2015 [4]
27 Porto Alegre  Brazil 4,258,926 2015 [2]
28 Brasília  Brazil 4,201,737 2015 [2]
29 Montreal  Canada 4,045,877 2015 [14]
30 Fortaleza  Brazil 3,985,297 2015 [2]
31 Salvador  Brazil 3,953,290 2015 [2]
32 Recife  Brazil 3,914,397 2015 [2]
33 Medellín  Colombia 3,777,009 2015 [lower-alpha 6][11]
34 Seattle  United States 3,733,580 2015 [4]
35 Santo Domingo  Dominican Republic 3,658,648 2015 [18]
36 Minneapolis–Saint Paul  United States 3,524,583 2015 [4]
37 Curitiba  Brazil 3,502,804 2015 [2]
38 San Diego  United States 3,299,521 2015 [4]
39 Campinas  Brazil 3,094,181 2015 [2]
40 Tampa–Saint Petersburg  United States 2,975,225 2015 [4]
41 Guayaquil  Ecuador 2,952,159 2015 [lower-alpha 7][20]
42 Puebla–Tlaxcala  Mexico 2,941,988 2015 [3]
43 Cali  Colombia 2,911,278 2015 [lower-alpha 8][11]
44 Denver  United States 2,814,330 2015 [4]
45 St. Louis  United States 2,811,588 2015 [4]
46 Baltimore  United States 2,797,407 2015 [4]
47 Guatemala City  Guatemala 2,749,161 2015 [lower-alpha 9][22]
48 Asunción  Paraguay 2,743,479 2015 [lower-alpha 10]</ref>
49 Quito  Ecuador 2,653,330 2015 [lower-alpha 11][20]
50 Port-au-Prince  Haiti 2,618,894 2015 [25]

Notes
  1. INDEC defines Greater Buenos Aires as comprising the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires plus 24 partidos of Buenos Aires Province, namely Almirante Brown, Avellaneda, Berazategui, Esteban Echeverría, Ezeiza, Florencio Varela, Hurlingham, Ituzaingó, José C. Paz, La Matanza, Lanús, Lomas de Zamora, Malvinas Argentinas, Merlo, Moreno, Morón, Quilmes, San Fernando, San Isidro, San Miguel, Tigre and Vicente López.[5]
  2. INEI defines the Lima Metropolitan Area as comprising Lima Province and the Constitutional Province of Callao.[8]
  3. DANE defines the metropolitan area of Bogotá as comprising the Capital District and 17 municipalities in Cundinamarca: Soacha, Facatativá, Zipaquirá, Chía, Mosquera, Madrid, Funza, Cajicá, Sibaté, Tocancipá, La Calera, Sopó, Tabio, Tenjo, Cota, Gachancipá and Bojacá.[10]
  4. The government of the Santiago Metropolitan Region defines the metropolitan area of Santiago as comprising Santiago Province, Cordillera Province and two communes (Calera de Tango and San Bernardo) in Maipo Province.[12]
  5. Population projection is that of the Sistema Metropolitano de Caracas, which comprises the five municipalities of the Metropolitan District of Caracas as well as the Altos Mirandinos Metropolitan Area, Guarenas-Guatire conurbation, Litoral Varguense conurbation and Valles del Tuy Metropolitan Area.[15][16]
  6. The Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley comprises the municipalities of Barbosa, Bello, Caldas, Copacabana, Envigado, Girardota, Itagüí, La Estrella, Medellín proper and Sabaneta.[10]
  7. Population projection is that of the future Metropolitan District of Guayaquil, which will comprise the cantons of Guayaquil proper, Durán and Samborondón.[19]
  8. DANE defines the metropolitan area of Cali as comprising the municipalities of Cali proper, Jamundí, Palmira and Yumbo.[10]
  9. In 2005, Guatemala City's metropolitan area was defined by its government as comprising the municipalities of Amatitlán, Chinautla, Guatemala City proper, Mixco, San Miguel Petapa, Santa Catarina Pinula, Villa Canales and Villa Nueva.[21]
  10. Population projection combines that of Asunción proper with 29 surrounding districts to form the Región Metropolitana de Asunción (Metropolitan Region of Asunción)."[23]
  11. Population projection combines that of Quito proper with Rumiñahui Canton, which "is clearly within the suburban zone of the city of Quito."[24]

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  3. For current definitions of Mexican metropolitan areas, see: "Delimitación de las zonas metropolitanas de México 2015" (in Spanish). Consejo Nacional de Población. Retrieved 2021-01-01. Population estimates for these metropolitan areas taken from CONAPO's document, compiled from the results of the 2015 Intercensal Survey, available at: "INEGI Cuéntame, Información for Entidad" (in Spanish). INEGI. Retrieved 2021-01-01.
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