I just watched a video that said new York city had a population of 8.8 million as of the 2020 census but had a metro population of over 26 million? I don’t really understand where they got that 26 million from. Another example, LA, had a population of around 3.8 million but a metro population of over 9 million. Where do they get those metro area figures from?
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Metro areas are usually determined by orientation to the central big city… things like continuous urban/suburban development, percentage of residents of a city/country that commute into or toward the main city, media reach for local TV, radio, newspaper consumption. Big cities are surrounded by dozens, even hundreds of suburbs that are not part of the city proper but still part of its sphere of influence.
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