Talk:List of cities in North America

US Metropolitan Area - CSA Confusion
Why, if there is a list of largest METROPOLITAN AREA'S, is every American city cited using the Combined Statistical Area classification instead of their legitimate metropolitan area classification? This highly over-inflates American city sizes, and, with this logic, would Toronto's metropolitan area population be that of the Golden Horseshoe at approximately 9.5 million? 198.166.31.186 (talk) 03:42, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

Toronto?
There is a 2011 census of Toronto that has the population listed at 2,615,060 and its Metropolitan Area is listed at 6,053,823. Source:  (Toronto's) 2011 Census: Population and Dwelling Counts

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Dingismaximus (talk) 17:31, 09 March 2013 (UTC)

Why are there so many South American cities? Isn't it a North American list?

It should be noted that people in the countries from Guatemala to Panama do not consider themselves as part of North America. We believe we are in a separate part called Central America. Central America is well documented in the Spanish version of Wikipedia but for some reason is largely ignored in the English version. Acuna007 (talk) 08:33, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

Vancouver?
It is in the top #7 in the top 100, but not in the top 10??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.143.213.178 (talk) 22:20, 10 February 2013 (UTC)

New York?
Why is it that the population of new york metro area is 19 750 000, but the source cited (US Census) cites the total population of New York State as being 19 378 102? — Preceding unsigned comment added by NoahMoth (talk • contribs) 00:25, 30 April 2012 (UTC)


 * Not all of the NYC Metro happens to be in the NY State. Cities in New Jersey and Connecticut also count in the NYC metro, which therefore makes it more populous than the state. Spbone (talk) 14:23, 11 August 2014 (UTC)

100 Most Populous Cities In North America 2010
source City Country 2010 Estimate 1 Mexico City Mexico 8,560,994 2 New York United States 8,459,026 3 Toronto Canada 5,052,522 4 Los Angeles United States 3,878,715 5 Montreal Canada 3,430,917 6 Chicago United States 2,878,948 7 Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 2,552,398 8 Houston United States 2,307,883 9 Havanna Cuba 2,125,977 10 Vancouver Canada 2,044,298 11 Ecatepec, Mexico 1,997,036 12 Tijuana Mexico 1,659,872 13 Phoenix United States 1,635,783 14 Juarez Mexico 1,633,189 15 Guadalajara Mexico 1,593,093 16 Puebla Mexico 1,506,849 17 Philadelphia United States 1,445,993 18 San Antonio United States 1,402,013 19 San Diego United States 1,309,749 20 Dallas United States 1,304,930 21 Leon Mexico 1,222,239 22 Nezahualcoyotl Mexico 1,210,821 23 Monterrey Mexico 1,108,519 24 Guatemala Guatemala 1,104,890 25 Tegucigalpa Honduras 1,086,641 26 Zapopan Mexico 1,083,112 27 Calgary Canada 1,078,793 28 San Jose United States 977,893 29 Edmonton Canada 928,760 30 Managua Nicaragua 927,197 31 Detroit United States 901,160 32 Ottawa Canada 879,364 33 Naucalpan, Mexico 846,440 34 Jacksonville United States 822,401 35 San Francisco United States 817,411 36 Indianapolis United States 803,930 37 Austin United States 792,778 38 Port-au-Prince Haiti 785,228 39 Guadalupe Mexico 778,426 40 Mérida Mexico 771,987 41 Columbus United States 768,662 42 Chihuahua Mexico 762,032 43 Chimalhuacán Mexico 759,518 44 Fort Worth United States 751,149 45 Cancún Mexico 749,227 46 San Luis Potosi Mexico 729,750 47 Aguascalientes Mexico 727,961 48 Charlotte United States 723,514 49 Villa Nueva Guatemala 710,218 50 Tlalnepantla Mexico 701,018 51 Queretaro Mexico 692,043 52 Mixco Guatemala 688,124 53 Saltillo Mexico 683,497 54 Acapulco Mexico 683,403 55 Quebec Canada 676,875 56 Hamilton Canada 667,977 57 Memphis United States 662,989 58 Santiago Dominican Republic 661,752 59 Hermosillo Mexico 653,159 60 Winnipeg Canada 649,227 61 Mexicali Mexico 640,497 62 Morelia Mexico 638,509 63 San Pedro Sula Honduras 638,259 64 Baltimore United States 632,410 65 El Paso United States 631,862 66 Culiacan Mexico 629,405 67 Seattle United States 614,214 68 Boston United States 610,407 69 Denver United States 609,651 70 Milwaukee United States 606,508 71 Nashville United States 605,197 72 Veracruz Mexico 600,224 73 Washington United States 597,885 74 Reynosa Mexico 597,751 75 López Mateos Mexico 591,859 76 Kingston Jamaica 577,774 77 Portland United States 573,530 78 Atlanta United States 571,861 79 Toluca Mexico 571,143 80 Las Vegas United States 570,083 81 Oklahoma City United States 564,147 82 Louisville United States 556,482 83 San Salvador El Salvador 553,525 84 Tucson United States 551,067 85 Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico 549,267 86 Tlaquepaque Mexico 543,046 87 Torreon Mexico 540,078 88 Albuquerque United States 535,923 89 Cuautitlan Izcalli Mexico 526,073 90 Tonala Mexico 521,262 91 San Nicolás de los Garza Mexico 517,293 92 Carrefour Haiti 499,371 93 Ixtapaluca Mexico 497,883 94 Matamoros Mexico 497,277 95 Fresno United States 490,930 96 Durango Mexico 484,267 97 Xalapa Mexico 475,506 98 Sacramento United States 475,452 99 Mesa United States 474,115 100 Apodaca Mexico 470,170 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.94.106.31 (talk) 18:30, 21 June 2011 (UTC)

Population count
See Talk:Toronto for further information on why I have changed the data at this list for Toronto. TBrandley (what's up) 23:51, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

American Standards
Worth noting that Canada and U.S.A go by different standards, and that by American standards, the GGH is Toronto's metro, (arund 10ish million)

TheCanadianGuy123 (talk) 01:32, 11 April 2013 (UTC)


 * It's also worth noting that the US could easily play that game too. If San Francisco and San Jose—areas that are contiguous with each other and share the same media market—were considered the same metro area, then it would be larger than Toronto.  Same with Washington and Baltimore.  The point is, the US census Bureau tends to divide metro areas up rather than agglomerate (e.g. LA/San Diego, Chicago/Milwaukee).  I think that if both countries went by the same standards, then Toronto would actually be further down the list. --68.114.217.126 (talk) 01:37, 23 February 2014 (UTC)


 * Bud, those are both smaller population wise. Terrible examples. And no, the US could not easily play that game, considering almost every single metropolitan area is over 20,000 km in size... 198.166.31.186 (talk) 18:51, 16 August 2014 (UTC)