Metropolitan area

Administrative unit of a dense urban core and its satellite cities

"Metro area" redirects here. For the dance music duo, see Metro Area.

Compare a metropolis and a conurbation.

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A metropolitan area or metro is a region that consists of a densely populated urban agglomeration and its surrounding territories sharing industries, commercial areas, transport network, infrastructures and housing.[1][2] A metro area usually comprises multiple principal cities, jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, counties, districts, and even states and nations like the eurodistricts. As social, economic and political institutions have changed, metropolitan areas have become key economic and political regions.[3] Metropolitan areas typically include satellite cities, towns and intervening rural areas that are socioeconomically tied to the principal cities or urban core, often measured by commuting patterns.[4] Metropolitan areas are sometimes anchored by one central city such as Paris metropolitan area (Paris), Mumbai Metropolitan Region (Mumbai (Bombay)). In other cases metropolitan areas contain multiple centers of equal or close to equal importance especially in the United States, for example the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area has 8 principal cities. The Islamabad–Rawalpindi metropolitan area (Islamabad and Rawalpindi), the Rhine-Ruhr in Germany and Randstad in the Netherlands are other examples.[5]

In the United States, the concept of metropolitan statistical areas has gained prominence. The area of the Greater Washington metropolitan area is an example of statistically grouping independent cities and county areas from various states to form a larger city because of proximity, history and recent urban convergence. Metropolitan areas may themselves be part of a greater megalopolis. For urban centres located outside metropolitan areas that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for a region, the concept of a regiopolis and respectively regiopolitan area or regio was introduced by German professors in 2006.[6] In the United States, the term micropolitan statistical area is used.

## Contents

* 1 General definition
* 2 History
* 3 Australia
* 4 Bangladesh
* 5 Brazil
* 6 Canada
* 7 China
* 8 European Union
* 9 France
* 10 Germany
* 11 India
* 12 Indonesia
* 13 Italy
* 14 Japan
* 15 Mexico
* 16 Pakistan
* 17 Philippines
* 18 South Africa
* 19 Sweden
* 20 Turkey
* 21 United Kingdom
* 22 United States
* 23 See also
* 23.1 Lists of metropolitan areas
* 23.2 Metropolitan planning theories
* 23.3 Terms
* 24 Notes
* 25 References
* 26 External links

## General definition[edit | edit source]

A metropolitan area combines an urban agglomeration (the contiguous, built-up area) with zones not necessarily urban in character, but closely bound to the center by employment or other commerce. These outlying zones are sometimes known as a commuter belt, and may extend well beyond the urban zone, to other political entities. For example, Islip, New York on Long Island is considered part of the New York metropolitan area.

In practice, the parameters of metropolitan areas, in both official and unofficial usage, are not consistent. Sometimes they are little different from an urban area, and in other cases they cover broad regions that have little relation to a single urban settlement; comparative statistics for metropolitan area should take this into account. The term "Metropolitan" can also refer to a county-level municipal government structure, with some shared services between a central city and its suburbs, which may or may not include the entirety of a metropolitan area. Population figures given for one metro area can vary by millions.

There has been no significant change in the basic concept of metropolitan areas since its adoption in 1950,[7] although significant changes in geographic distributions have occurred since then, and more are expected.[8] Because of the fluidity of the term "metropolitan statistical area," the term used colloquially is more often "metro service area," "metro area," or "MSA" taken to include not only a city, but also surrounding suburban, exurban and sometimes rural areas, all which it is presumed to influence. A polycentric metropolitan area contains multiple urban agglomerations not connected by continuous development. In defining a metropolitan area, it is sufficient that a city or cities form a nucleus with which other areas have a high degree of integration.

A metropolitan area is commonly known and characterised by a high concentration in service sector jobs and businesses.[9]

See also the many lists of metropolitan areas itemized at § Lists of metropolitan areas.

## History[edit | edit source]

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## Australia[edit | edit source]

The Australian Bureau of Statistics uses Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (GCCSAs), which are geographical areas designed to represent the functional extent of each of the eight State and Territory capital cities. They were designed to reflect labour markets, using the 2011 Census "travel to work" data. Labour markets are sometimes used as proxy measures of the functional extent of a city as it contains the majority of the commuting population. GCCSAs replaced "Statistical Divisions" used until 2011.[10][a]

Other Metropolitan areas in Australia include cross border cities or continuous built-up areas between two or more cities that are connected by an extensive public transport network that allows for commuting for work or services. The following are such conurbations[11]\-

Albury-Wodonga

Canberra-Queanbeyan

Newcastle-Sydney-Wollongong

Perth Metropolitan Region-City of Mandurah-Pinjarra

South East Queensland

Melbourne-Geelong

## Bangladesh[edit | edit source]

In Bangladesh, the large population centers which have significant Financial, political and administrative Importance are considered to be as Metropolitan cities, which are governed by City Corporations. In total, there are 12 City Corporations in Bangladesh.[12] 4 of them (Dhaka North City Corporation, Dhaka South City Corporation, Narayanganj City Corporation, Gazipur City Corporation) are part of Greater Dhaka Conurbation .

## Brazil[edit | edit source]

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Greater São Paulo at night seen from the International Space Station

The following paragraph is an excerpt from List of metropolitan areas in Brazil § Definitions.[edit]

In Brazil, the terms metropolitan area (Portuguese: região metropolitana) and urban agglomeration (aglomeração urbana) have specific meanings. They are defined by federal and state legislation as collections of municipalities focused on "integrating the organization, planning and execution of public functions of common interest".[13] An integrated development area (região integrada de desenvolvimento) is one of the two above structures that crosses state (or Federal District) boundaries.

The IBGE defines also "Immediate Geographic Areas" (formerly termed microregions) which capture the region "surrounding urban centers for the supply of immediate needs of the population".[14] Intended for policy planning purposes, as of March 2021 census data is not tabulated on the level of these Areas, but instead at the municipality or state level.[15]

## Canada[edit | edit source]

Statistics Canada defines a census metropolitan area (CMA) as an area consisting of one or more adjacent municipalities situated around a major urban core. To form a CMA, the metropolitan area must have a population of at least 100,000, at least half within the urban core. To be included in the CMA, adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the core, as measured by commuter flows derived from census data.[16]

## China[edit | edit source]

In Chinese, there used to be no clear distinction between "megalopolis" (城市群, lit. city cluster) and "metropolitan area" (都市圈) until National Development and Reform Commission issued Guidelines on the Cultivation and Development of Modern Metropolitan Areas (关于培育发展现代化都市圈的指导意见) on Feb 19, 2019, in which a metropolitan area was defined as "an urbanized spatial form in a megalopolis dominated by (a) supercity(-ies) or megacity(-ies), or a large metropolis playing a leading part, and within the basic range of 1-hour commute area."[17]

## European Union[edit | edit source]

The European Union's statistical agency, Eurostat, has created a concept named "larger urban zone" (LUZ). The LUZ represents an attempt at a harmonised definition of the metropolitan area, and the goal was to have an area from which a significant share of the residents commute into the city, a concept known as the "functional urban region".[18]

## France[edit | edit source]

France's national statistics office, INSEE, names an urban core and its surrounding area of commuter influence an aire d'attraction d'une ville [fr] (or AAV, literally meaning "catchment area of a city"), plural: aires d'attraction des villes.[19] The official translation of this statistical area in English (as used by INSEE) is "functional area".[20] The AAV follows the same definition as the Functional Urban Area (FUA) used by Eurostat and the OECD, and the AAVs are thus strictly comparable to the FUAs.[20]

The AAV replaced in 2020 the metropolitan statistical area called aire urbaine (AU).[19] The AU, which was defined differently than the AAV, has now been discarded by INSEE and replaced with the AAV in order to facilitate international comparisons.[20]

## Germany[edit | edit source]

See also: Metropolitan regions in Germany

In German definition, metropolitan areas are eleven most densely populated areas in the Federal Republic of Germany. They comprise the major German cities and their surrounding catchment areas and form the political, commercial and cultural centres of the country.

For urban centres outside metropolitan areas, that generate a similar attraction at smaller scale for their region, the concept of the Regiopolis and respectively regiopolitan area or regio was introduced by German professors in 2006.

## India[edit | edit source]

Further information: List of metropolitan areas in India

Further information: List of million-plus urban agglomerations in India

In India, a metropolitan city is defined as one with a population more than 4 million.[21]

## Indonesia[edit | edit source]

Further information: List of metropolitan areas in Indonesia

In Indonesia, the government of Indonesia defines a metropolitan area as an urban agglomeration where its spatial planning is prioritised due to its highly important influence on the country. Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, Semarang, Medan, Makassar, Palembang are important metropolitan area in the country. Currently, there are 10 metropolitan cities in Indonesia that have been recognized by the government.[22]

## Italy[edit | edit source]

In 2001, Italy transformed 14 provinces of some of the country's largest cities into Metropolitan Cities. Therefore, the territory of the Metropolitan City corresponds to that of a normal Italian province.

## Japan[edit | edit source]

In Japan, a metropolitan area (都市圏) is a division set separately from administrative areas in order to define wide urban areas used in the Census conducted by the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications.

The Greater Tokyo Area is the most populous metropolitan area in the world.

* Central City (中心市)
* Those of the greater metropolitan areas  are the 23 special wards in the metropolis of Tokyo and other designated cities.
* Those of the metropolitan areas are cities with a population of more than half of a million, which are not included in the greater metropolitan areas.

If the central cities are next to each other, the areas are integrated into one large area.

* Surrounding Municipality (周辺市町村, lit. 'surrounding cities, towns and villages')
* Those are municipalities with ratios of the number of people commuting to the central city over 15 years old being 1.5% or more of the permanent population of and close to the central cities.

If a municipality is surrounded by the surrounding municipalities, it will be a surrounding municipality.

## Mexico[edit | edit source]

Further information: Metropolitan areas of Mexico

Metropolitan areas are known as zonas metropolitanas in Mexico. The National Population Council (CONAPO) defines them as:[23]

* a set of two or more municipalities where a city with a population of at least 100,000 is located, and whose urban area, functions and activities exceed the limits of the municipality.
* municipalities with a city of more than 500,000 inhabitants, or a city of more than 200,000 inhabitants located in the northern and southern border areas and in the coastal zone.
* municipalities where state capitals are located, if they are not already included in a metropolitan zone.

As of 2018, there are 74 zonas metropolitanas in Mexico. 75.1 million people, 62.8% of the country population, live within a metropolitan area.[23]

## Pakistan[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of metropolitan areas in Pakistan

Pakistan has nine metropolitan areas with populations greater than a million. Seven of these are entirely in Punjab including Lahore, Faisalabad, Gujranwala, Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha, and Sialkot; one (Islamabad-Rawalpindi is split between Punjab and the Islamabad Capital Territory; two are located in Sindh, including Karachi, the largest metropolitan area in the country, and Hyderabad; one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Peshawar; and the final in Balochistan: Quetta.

## Philippines[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of metropolitan areas in the Philippines

The Philippines currently has three metropolitan areas defined by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA). These metropolitan areas are separated into three main geographical areas; Metro Manila (which is located in Luzon), Metro Cebu (which is located in Visayas), and Metro Davao (which is located in Mindanao). The official definition of each area does not necessarily follow the actual extent of continuous urbanization. For example, the built-up area of Metro Manila has long spilled out of its officially defined borders into the adjacent provinces of Bulacan, Rizal, Laguna, and Cavite. The number of metropolitan areas in the Philippines was reduced from 13 in 2007 to the current three based from the 2017–2022 Philippine Development Plan by NEDA. The other 10 metropolitan areas were Metro Angeles, Metro Bacolod, Metro Baguio, Metro Batangas, Metro Cagayan de Oro, Metro Dagupan, Metro Iloilo–Guimaras, Metro Butuan, Metro Naga, and Metro Olongapo.

## South Africa[edit | edit source]

The Greater Johannesburg metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in South Africa. Its population was over 9.6 million as of the 2011 South Africa Census, in contrast to its urban area, which consisted of approximately 7.9 million inhabitants as of 2011. Conversely, metropolitan municipalities in South Africa are defined as commonly governed areas of a metropolitan area. The largest such metropolitan municipal government entity in South Africa is the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, which presided over nearly 5 million people as of 2016. However, the Greater Johannesburg metropolitan area houses roughly ten times the population of its core municipal city of Johannesburg, which contained 957,441 people as of the 2011 census.

## Sweden[edit | edit source]

Main article: List of metropolitan areas in Sweden

Sweden defines a metropolitan area as a group of municipalities, based on statistics of commuting between central municipalities and surrounding municipalities and taking into account existing planning cooperation in the country's three geographic regions.[24] They were defined around 1965. In 2005, a number of further municipalities were added to the defined areas.

## Turkey[edit | edit source]

The word metropolitan describes a major city in Turkey like Istanbul, a city that is dominant to others both financially and socially.[25] There are 30 officially defined "state metropolitan areas" in Turkey, for governing purposes.[26]

## United Kingdom[edit | edit source]

See also: List of metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom

The United Kingdom government's Office for National Statistics defines "travel to work areas" as areas where "at least 75% of an area's resident workforce work in the area and at least 75% of the people who work in the area also live in the area".[27]

## United States[edit | edit source]

Main article: Metropolitan statistical area

See also: List of U.S. metropolitan areas by GDP

As of February 28, 2013, the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defined 1,098 statistical areas for the metropolitan areas of the United States and Puerto Rico.[28] These 1,098 statistical areas comprise 929 Core-Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs)[29] and 169 Combined Statistical Areas (CSAs).[30] The 929 Core-Based Statistical Areas are divided into 388 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs – 381 for the U.S. and seven for Puerto Rico)[31] and 541 Micropolitan Statistical Areas (μSAs – 536 for the U.S. and five for Puerto Rico).[32] The 169 Combined Statistical Areas (166 for the U.S. and three for Puerto Rico) each comprise two or more adjacent Core Based Statistical Areas.

The Office of Management and Budget defines a Metropolitan Statistical Area as one or more adjacent counties or county equivalents that have at least one urban area of at least 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of economic and social integration with the core as measured by commuting ties. The OMB then defines a Combined Statistical Area as consisting of various combinations of adjacent metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas with economic ties measured by commuting patterns. The Office of Management and Budget further defines a core-based statistical area (CBSA) to be a geographical area that consists of one or more counties (or equivalents) anchored by an urban center of at least 10,000 people plus adjacent counties that are socioeconomically tied to the urban center by commuting.

## See also[edit | edit source]

* Developed environments
* Economic restructuring
* Metropolitan statistical area
* Metropolitan economy
* Urban sprawl
* Urban heat island

### Lists of metropolitan areas[edit | edit source]

* List of metropolitan areas that overlap multiple countries
* List of metropolitan areas by population
* List of metropolitan areas in Asia
* List of metropolitan areas in Africa
* List of metropolitan areas in the Americas
* List of North American metropolitan areas by population
* List of Metropolitan Statistical Areas
* List of metropolitan areas in Europe
* List of metropolitan areas (LUZ) in the European Union

### Metropolitan planning theories[edit | edit source]

* New Urbanism
* Smart growth
* Transit-oriented development

### Terms[edit | edit source]

* Amalgamation (politics)
* Census metropolitan area
* Combined statistical area
* Consolidated city-county
* Conurbation
* Ecumenopolis
* Industrial region
* Larger urban zone (LUZ)
* Megacity
* Megalopolis (city type)
* Metrobus
* Metropolis
* Overpopulation
* Urban sprawl
* Urban area
* World's largest cities

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## Notes[edit | edit source]

1. ^ Material in this section was based on Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data, © Commonwealth of Australia, and includes text supplied by ABS that is quoted verbatim, as permitted under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 licence.

## References[edit | edit source]

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2. ^ Squires, G. Ed. Urban Sprawl: Causes, Consequences, & Policy Responses. (The urban Institute Press (2002)
3. ^ Mark, M.; Katz, B; Rahman, S.; Warren, D. (2008). "MetroPolicy: Shaping A New Federal Partnership for a Metropolitan Nation" (PDF). Brookings Institution. pp. 4–103.
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6. ^ Prof. Dr. Iris Reuther (FG Stadt- und Regionalplanung, Universität Kassel): Presentation "Regiopole Rostock". 11 December 2008, retrieved 13 June 2009 (pdf).
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10. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (12 July 2016). "GREATER CAPITAL CITY STATISTICAL AREA (GCCSA)". Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS). Canberra, ACT. 1 (1270.0.55.001). Retrieved 20 June 2021.
11. ^ "Conurbation", Wikipedia, 2021-07-26, retrieved 2021-08-02
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13. ^ "Metropolitan Areas, Urban Agglomerations and Integrated Development Areas | IBGE". www.ibge.gov.br. Archived from the original on 2021-01-02. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
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16. ^ "Census metropolitan area (CMA) and census agglomeration (CA)". Statistics Canada. 2007-12-11. Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2011-03-06.
17. ^ "关于培育发展现代化都市圈的指导意见(发改规划〔2019〕328号)" (in Chinese (China)). 国家发展改革委. 2019-02-19.
18. ^ "Urbanaudit.org". Archived from the original on 2009-02-12.
19. ^ a b "Le nouveau zonage en aires d'attraction des villes". INSEE. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
20. ^ a b c "Functional areas". INSEE. Retrieved 2022-04-09.
21. ^ "Metropolitan Cities of India" (PDF). Central Pollution Control Board. National Informatics Centre. p. 3\. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
22. ^ "Kategori Topik Utama". Archived from the original on 2019-09-18. Retrieved 2021-06-15.
23. ^ a b "Delimitation of Mexico's Metropolitan Areas 2015" (in Spanish). CONAPO. Retrieved 2020-12-29.
24. ^ "Geografin i statistiken – regionala indelningar i Sverigelanguage=sv" (PDF). Statistics Sweden.
25. ^ "Türk Dil Kurumu, Yabancı Sözlere Karşılıklar Kılavuzu, "metropol"". tdkterim.gov.tr. Archived from the original on 2011-07-21.
26. ^ Metropolitan municipalities in Turkey
27. ^ Beginners' guide to UK geography - Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs) Office for National Statistics
28. ^ "OMB Bulletin No. 13-01: Revised Delineations of Metropolitan Statistical Areas, Micropolitan Statistical Areas, and Combined Statistical Areas, and Guidance on Uses of the Delineations of These Areas" (PDF). United States Office of Management and Budget. February 28, 2013. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 21, 2017. Retrieved April 2, 2013.
29. ^ The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines a Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA) as one or more adjacent counties or county equivalents that have at least one urban core area of at least 10,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.
30. ^ The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines a Combined Statistical Area (CSA) as an aggregate of adjacent Core Based Statistical Areas that are linked by commuting ties.
31. ^ The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines a Metropolitan Statistical Area (μSA) as a Core Based Statistical Area having at least one urban cluster of at least 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.
32. ^ The United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) defines a Micropolitan Statistical Area (μSA) as a Core Based Statistical Area having at least one urban cluster of at least 10,000 but less than 50,000 population, plus adjacent territory that has a high degree of social and economic integration with the core as measured by commuting ties.

## External links[edit | edit source]

* "The World's Cities in 2016" (PDF). United Nations. October 2016. (page 1 illustrates metropolitan area versus city proper and urban agglomeration)
* Metropolis.org, An organisation of world metropolises
* Urban Employment Areas in Japan (Metropolitan Employment Areas in Japan)
* Turismo.fvg.it, (Metropolis read by maps in Friuli Venezia Giulia – Northeast of Italy – EU)
* Geopolis : research group, university of Paris-Diderot, France — Urbanization of the world

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