Talk:List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean

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Just letting everyone know that I ( user:Dannyboybs18 ) am currently editing this page, so if it looks incomplete that just means that I have'nt finished my editing at the moment. So please bear with me until all the editing is finish because I was able to compile a reliable list (with references) of the most populus West Indian cities, so I kindly ask that no one edit the file at least not until higher or lower figures of the metro areas have been released. Thanks alot guys I'll let you know when the edits are finished, and for now good bye.( date: July-28th-2011 )

Census Data Edits
The figures given for Dominican cities and for Port-au-Prince were wildly inaccurate. I have gone ahead and brought them in line with official government census data for both countries. I suspect that the ardent rivalry between the two countries has prompted the ridiculously overstated figures.

--BXM 12:54, 2 August 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bxmuchacho (talk • contribs)

The population of Santiago de Cuba metro area(municipality) was 492 891 in 2010ONEI-Santiago and according to preliminary results of 2012 Census the current population exceeds the half million figure, is the territory with more population growth in the country CubanEkoMember (talk) 21:32, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Differences between metros and conurbations
A lot of contradictory measurements. In most cases these are not largest metropolitan areas but rather a measure of conurbations, metros, general populations, etc. Even much of the metro data is often unreliable ad the direct sources are incorrect. A lot of question marks for this data. It needs to be fixed before he could be considered reliable. Krazytea ( talk ) 02:48, 23 August 2015 (UTC)

Cap-Haïtien?
Shouldn't Cap-Haïtien be on here? 108.254.160.23 (talk) 01:48, 17 April 2016 (UTC)

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East–West Corridor
The inclusion of the so-called "East–West Corridor" is problematic, for the following reasons:
 * 1) There is no source provided for the definition of this term, either here or at the linked article, which has been tagged for lack of sources since 2009.
 * 2) There is no source provided for the claim that this so-called corridor constitutes a metropolitan area, e.g., by showing that the area is linked to a single urban core through commuting patterns. The lead of Port of Spain contradicts this claim by giving a "metropolitan population" of 81,142 and calling the East–West Corridor a conurbation as opposed to a monocentric metropolitan area. This contradiction needs to be resolved.
 * 3) The 2012 census population of Santiago de Cuba proper was 431,272, and the towns of Palma Soriano (2012 pop. 76,179), San Luis (34,997) and La Maya (23,341) all lie closer to or a similar distance to Santiago as Arima does to Port of Spain. The total population of these four cities is 565,789, and we haven't even yet considered the population of the rural areas between them, or other smaller towns closer to Santiago. So it's not unreasonable to think that Santiago's metropolitan population may well exceed the 546,014 claimed for the East-West Corridor. Any claim that the East-West Corridor is the seventh-largest metropolitan area in the West Indies must be accompanied by evidence that the metropolitan area of Santiago is in fact smaller.
 * 4) At the link that was given as a source for the population, the only population figure actually given is a mid-2018 estimate of T&T's population. A more precise source is needed for the populations of the specific municipalities involved, and one with a reference date of mid-2015 would be ideal in order to be comparable with the statistics provided for the other metropolitan areas.

Accordingly I have removed this entry, as well as related uncited statements at East–West Corridor. When all of these issues have been addressed, we can add it back. Cobblet (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

"Cities"
Not all populated places are cities per se. Is there any reliable source that specifically describes any settlement in the smaller island nations (e.g., all of the Lesser Antilles other than Trinidad and Tobago) as a "city"?

In any case, none of the material you're adding belongs on a page about metropolitan areas. It would be more suited for List of national capitals by population instead. Cobblet (talk) 12:48, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
 * The most reliable source is GeoNames, which is based on UN data and country censuses.  I was looking for a place to put the largest cities by country in the Caribbean.  This page was linked to in the Caribbean topics template.   When I get the data together, maybe it should be on a separate page for the Caribbean.       Talk to G Moore 12:58, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
 * GeoNames does not call capitals such as The Valley, Saint John's, and Oranjestad (to take just the first three examples where you cite this source) "cities". Not every inhabited locality is a city. If you're going to create a list of Caribbean cities, do not include settlements which are not described in the majority of reliable sources as a "city" on said list. Cobblet (talk) 14:18, 13 September 2021 (UTC)