![]() Perhaps the extreme example is the Riverside-San Bernardino (California) UA, which with nearly 2,000,000 residents in 2010, covered only 2% of the metropolitan area’s land area.The New York UA covers 51% of the New York metropolitan area.The Los Angeles UA covers 37% of the Los Angeles metropolitan area.Figure 4 from Statistics Canada, illustrates the Winnipeg CMA, which stretches all the way to Lake Winnipeg, while the general outlines of the Winnipeg PC can be identified from the dense street pattern in the center of the map. The Winnipeg PC covers 7% of the Winnipeg CMA land area.The Toronto PC covers 31% of the Toronto CMA land area.Their physical expanse is routinely much larger than the urban areas around which they are organized. It is possible to calculate metropolitan area densities, but this is of no use for analyzing urban issue, because metropolitan areas are both urban and rural. Metropolitan Areas (CMAs):Metropolitan areas are organized around PCs/UAs, and include the largest PC/UA, along with the rural and smaller PCs/UAs from which significant number of employee commute into the largest PC/UA. ![]()
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