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’ stands for ‘metropolitan’. It means ‘mother city’, and implies the presence of ‘children cities’. These children are very close to the mother, and are all grouped together for some purposes.
The 26 million people who all live in a cluster around the local government area called “New York City” don’t mostly get their services from the “New York City” government, because they live in “smalltown”. But they do identify with it, they can see it from their homes, they might commute to work in it (or know people who do), they might get services from it (for example leisure, or culture), and when they’re talking to someone from somewhere else, who might not know where “smalltown” is, it’s easier for them to say “I’m from New York”.
A metro area is all those children clustered together. The figures from come amalgamating all of them, and treating them like a single unit.
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