metropolitan areas
Large populated zones
Metropolitan areas are regions comprising a major city and its surrounding communities that are economically and socially integrated with it.
The concept captures how urban life spills beyond city limits—people live in suburbs but work downtown, or vice versa.
Government agencies use metropolitan area designations for statistical purposes: The Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area has over seven million residents.
Also called metro areas.
- megacitiesEnormous urban agglomerations
- suburbsResidential areas outside cities
- bedroom communitiesResidential areas near cities
- townsMid-sized populated places
- urbanizationPopulation shift toward cities
population density · agglomeration · urban planning · transportation networks · public transit · rush hour · boroughs · districts · zoning laws · urban decay · regional · urban sprawl · city limits · municipality · transit · neighborhoods · traffic · bustling
- US demographicspopulation density, population growth, population decline, median age, urban population
- citiesParis, London, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles
- regionsregion, regions, area, areas, zone
- Australian Geographystates, territories, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland
- British PlacesBuckingham Palace, England, Tower of London, London, Big Ben
- jurisdictionscounty, city, province, state, counties
metropolitan areasrural areas
Sparsely populated regions
backcountry · outback · rural countryside · hinterlands · small towns
metropolitan areassmall towns
Low-population municipalities
villages · hamlets · rural communities · homesteads · outposts
metropolitan areasfarmland
Agricultural terrain
agricultural land · open country · wilderness areas · nature preserves · rangelands
metro, metropolis, metropolitan, metros, polis, metropolitans, metropolitan area, metroplex