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:
- The Greater Los Angeles Area (sometimes referred to as Southland), comprised of Los Angeles - San Diego - Long Beach - Anaheim - Riverside - San Bernardino - Palmdale - Bakersfield - and Ventura.,
- The BosWash comprised of New York City - Philadelphia - Baltimore - Boston - Washington, D.C. - Newark - Providence - and Hartford.
- Chicago - Milwaukee, 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.
