The New York metropolitan area is the large urban region centered on New York City that includes its surrounding suburbs and nearby cities in multiple states. It is the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban land area, with roughly 20 million people in the core metropolitan statistical area and over 23 million in the broader combined statistical area.wikipedia+1
Basic definition
- The term refers to Greater New York, also known as the Tri-State Area, meaning the extended urbanized region around New York City.wikivoyage+1
- It functions as a single integrated economic and social region, tied together by commuting patterns, media markets, and shared infrastructure.mapsofworld+1
Geographic scope
- The core includes New York City itself plus much of downstate New York, such as Long Island (Nassau and Suffolk Counties) and counties in the lower Hudson Valley like Westchester and Rockland.wikipedia+1
- It also extends into northern and central New Jersey (including Newark and other major New Jersey municipalities), southwestern Connecticut (e.g., Fairfield County), and parts of eastern Pennsylvania under the broader combined statistical area definition.wikipedia+2
Official statistical definitions
- For U.S. federal statistics, the core region is defined as the New York–Newark–Jersey City, NY–NJ Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), with about 19–20 million residents.wikipedia+1
- A larger New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT–PA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) adds additional surrounding counties and reaches more than 23 million people across roughly 13,000–30,000 square kilometers, depending on measurement.mapsofworld+2
Other common names
- The same region is often called the Tri-State area because it spans at least New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, even though the broader definition also includes parts of Pennsylvania.wikivoyage+2
- Phrases like “Greater New York,” “Metro New York,” or “Metro New York City” are used interchangeably in media, travel guides, and everyday speech to describe this metropolitan region.yourhometownmover+2
Economic and demographic importance
- The New York metropolitan area has one of the largest metropolitan economies in the world, with a gross metropolitan product estimated in the trillions of U.S. dollars.wikipedia+1
- It is a major global center for finance, media, technology, trade, education, and culture, and it hosts one of the world’s largest foreign-born populations among metropolitan regions.wikipedia+2
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