List of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas

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This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas.

rank	city center	metropolitan area name	population estimate
1	New York City, United States	New York Metropolitan Area	22,981,510
2	Mexico City, Mexico	Greater Mexico City	22,968,205
3	São Paulo, Brazil	Greater São Paulo	20,218,868
4	Los Angeles, United States	Greater Los Angeles	17,863,050
5	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Greater Buenos Aires	14,197,085
6	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Greater Rio de Janeiro	11,975,998
7	Chicago, United States	Chicago Metropolitan Area/Chicagoland	9,549,897
8	Washington-Baltimore, United States	Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area	8,281,142
9	Bogotá, Colombia	Metropolitan Area of Bogotá	8,148,808
10	Lima, Peru	Lima Metropolitan Area	7,804,611
11	San Francisco, United States	San Francisco Bay Area	7,661,241
12	Dallas-Fort Worth, United States	Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex	6,439,838
13	Toronto-Hamilton, Canada	Greater Toronto Area	6,324,456
14	Philadelphia, United States	Delaware Valley	6,293,136
15	Boston, United States	Greater Boston	6,143,886
16	Detroit-Windsor, United States/Canada	Windsor-Detroit	5,854,397
17	Houston, United States	Greater Houston	5,620,461
18	Belo Horizonte, Brazil		5,395,601
19	Atlanta, United States	Atlanta Metropolitan Area	5,289,322
20	Santiago, Chile		5,090,824
21	San Diego-Tijuana, United States/Mexico	San Diego-Tijuana Metropolitan Area	4,945,410
22	Miami, United States	South Florida	4,940,907
23	Phoenix, United States	Phoenix Metropolitan Area	4,305,157
24	Caracas, Venezuela		4,259,737
25	Guadalajara, Mexico		4,149,804
26	Porto Alegre, Brazil		3,971,158
27	Seattle, United States	Seattle Metropolitan Area	3,947,414
28	Monterrey, Mexico		3,868,493
29	Montreal, Canada		3,763,715
30	Recife, Brazil		3,738,978
31	Salvador, Brazil		3,703,722
32	Fortaleza, Brazil		3,371,858
33	Curitiba, Brazil		3,359,490
34	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic		3,338,850
35	Guatemala City, Guatemala		3,293,168
36	Medellín, Colombia		3,284,894
37	Minneapolis-Saint Paul, United States	Minneapolis-Saint Paul	3,260,454
38	Cleveland, United States	Greater Cleveland	2,947,262
39	Puebla, Mexico		2,848,282
40	Denver, United States	Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area	2,741,624
41	Tampa, United States	Tampa Bay Area	2,692,877
42	St. Louis, United States	Greater St. Louis	2,662,989
43	Cali, Colombia		2,635,017
44	Portland, United States	Portland Metropolitan Area	2,617,282
45	Havana, Cuba		2,599,655
46	Maracaibo, Venezuela		2,406,719
47	Brasília, Brazil		2,406,478
48	Belém, Brazil		2,401,954
49	Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, Mexico/United States		2,397,732
50	Pittsburgh, United States	Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area	2,313,214

List of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas

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