Metroplex

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For other uses, see Metroplex (disambiguation).

A Metroplex is an area of 2 or more very close statistical metropolitan areas that converge upon one another.

Several metroplexes exist in the United States. The most common metroplexes in the U.S. are:

• ChiPitts stretching from Chicago to Pittsburgh and including Detroit, Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and Milwaukee.
• The Greater Los Angeles Area (sometimes referred to as Southland), comprising Los Angeles - San Diego - Long Beach - Anaheim - Riverside - San Bernardino - Palmdale - Bakersfield - and Ventura.,
• The BosWash comprising New York City - Philadelphia - Baltimore - Boston - Washington, D.C. - Newark - Providence - and Hartford.
• Chicago - Northwest Indiana, known as Chicagoland.
• Dallas - Fort Worth sometimes called DFW; the area around Dallas and Fort Worth is regularly referred to as "The Metroplex" in print and television media inside the state of Texas, unlike the other metropolitan areas listed.
• San Jose - San Francisco - Oakland, called the San Francisco Bay Area.

See also

• Megacity
• Metropolitan area