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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A good way I have heard it described is the Metropolitan area is the blob of lights that you see when you look out the plane window at night.
But basically it’s the continuous urban area that is a city and its suburbs.
It varies city by city and country by country.
Some of the confusion can come from the fact that for example “The City of Los Angeles” is just a local government area in the middle of a much bigger urban area that doesn’t just stop at the government boundary.
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