New York metropolitan area
NYC and surroundings
The New York metropolitan area is the region centered on New York City, extending into neighboring parts of New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania.
It's the most populous metropolitan area in the United States, encompassing roughly twenty million people across its various definitions.
The boundaries shift depending on who's drawing them—census definitions, commuter patterns, and media markets all yield different maps.
Housing prices throughout the New York metropolitan area have skyrocketed.
- Long IslandNYC's suburban peninsula
- ConnecticutNortheastern American state
- Jersey ShoreEastern seaboard resort region
- BrooklynWestern Long Island borough
- QueensEasternmost NYC district
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New York metropolitan areawilderness
Uncultivated, uninhabited natural region
backcountry · rural countryside · rural America · frontier · outback
New York metropolitan areamiddle of nowhere
Extremely remote location
backwater · forgotten town · nowhere · flyover country · provincial town
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