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Without trudging through all of the responses here, I'm pretty sure Atlanta has been mentioned due to the fact that Georgia counties are typically smaller in size.
Yeah, Miami is just 3 counties...but over 6,000 square miles in thost 3 HUGE counties.
...and a huge amount of those counties is wetlands and undevelopable. The amount of land that the Miami MSA actually consumes consums is tiny in comparison to others of similar population. Plus, most future growth of the metro is going ot have to come from building up, not out.
I counted 30 counties on the map:
13 Counties in New Jersey
13 Counties in New York
3 Counties in Connecticut
1 County in Pennsylvania
I don't know why Warren County, NJ isn't included, its often included in the NYC Metro. That would equal 31 Counties.
Warren County, NJ is part of the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton metropolitan area. Phillipsburg, the largest town in Warren County, is directly across the river from Easton (and is part of arguably the best high school football rivalry in the U.S. with Easton; Phillipsburg and Easton high schools always play their rivalry game on Thanksgiving Day at Lafayette College in Easton, a neutral site with a larger stadium, every year).
It should be noted that although Hunterdon, Mercer, and Ocean Counties in New Jersey are part of the New York metro area, those three counties are really shared counties with the Philadelphia metro area, particularly Mercer County.
Cecil County, MD is considered part of the Philadelphia metropolitan area, but its so really only through common association of Wilmington, DE. Otherwise, its in the Baltimore DMA/TV/advertising market.
Atlantic City-Hammonton is considered its own metropolitan area, but in my opinion is a subset of the Philadelphia region, and Southern NJ sprawl is making the two regions into one. Hammonton is a mere 15 min drive from Berlin NJ. AC is also in the Philadelphia DMA.
The Lehigh Valley is also its own metropolitan area, and has association with Philadelphia (mainly thru pro sports and DMA/TV stations) but it appears culturally less associated, than Atlantic City is to Philadelphia.
The Lehigh Valley also has relatively strong ties to the New York metro area, though those ties aren't as strong as they are to the Philadelphia metro area.
Though Cecil County, MD (or more accurately Elkton and its surrounding area) is part of the Philadelphia metro area through its ties to Wilmington, I have read there are a significant number of cars with Maryland license plates those use the Newark SEPTA R2 station for commuting purposes, and a lot of those people aren't commuting to Wilmington.
Though Cecil County, MD (or more accurately Elkton and its surrounding area) is part of the Philadelphia metro area through its ties to Wilmington, I have read there are a significant number of cars with Maryland license plates those use the Newark SEPTA R2 station for commuting purposes, and a lot of those people aren't commuting to Wilmington.
MARC is extending their Penn Line within the next few years to connect to the R2 at Newark (with a stop at Elkton) so commuters won't have to take Amtrak from MD/DC to Philly/Wilmington. I've actually heard of people commuting from Philadelphia to DC, and a lot of Delaware->DC commuters.
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