What exactly is a metro area?

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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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One of the better examples I like to do is look at the map of the US at night. You can see the lights around the cities. Take Detroit for example, people would expect Michigan to be dark because of Detroit, but nope, everywhere outside of the city is extremely bright, that’s metro Detroit.

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