New York Metropolitan Area
The New York Metropolitan Area , also known as the Tri-State Area or Tri State Region ( English for 'three-state region'), is the metropolitan area around New York City . It is the largest metropolitan area in the United States by population and the eighth largest in the world . It includes parts of the states of New York , New Jersey , Connecticut and Pennsylvania . According to US authorities, there are two definitions for this metropolitan area. The New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island Metropolitan Statistical Area has an area of 17,405 km² and the population is 18.9 million (as of 2010). The somewhat broader New York-Newark-Bridgeport Combined Statistical Area even has almost 22.1 million inhabitants on an area of 30,671 km² (as of 2010).
According to a study from 2014, the New York Metropolitan Area has a gross domestic product of 1.46 trillion US dollars. In the ranking of the economically strongest metropolitan regions worldwide, the city took second place behind Tokyo . The GDP per capita is $ 69,915 (PPP). 9 million people are employed in the metropolitan region.
Counties
The New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island Metropolitan Statistical Area comprises the counties in the following regions: (in brackets: population on April 1, 2010)
- New York-White Plains-Wayne (11,576,251)
- Kings County, NY (2,504,700)
- Queens County, NY (2,230,722)
- New York County, NY (1,585,873)
- Bronx County, NY (1,385,108)
- Westchester County, NY (949,113)
- Bergen County, NJ (905,116)
- Hudson County, NJ (634,266)
- Passaic County, NJ (501,226)
- Richmond County, NY (468,730)
- Rockland County, NY (311,687)
- Putnam County, NY (99,710)
- Nassau Suffolk (2,832,882)
- Suffolk County, NY (1,493,350)
- Nassau County, NY (1,339,532)
- Edison-New Brunswick (2,340,249)
- Middlesex County, NJ (809,858)
- Monmouth County, NJ (630,380)
- Ocean County, NJ (576,567)
- Somerset County, NJ (323,444)
- Newark Union (2,147,727)
- Essex County, NJ (783,969)
- Union County, NJ (536,499)
- Morris County, NJ (492,276)
- Sussex County, NJ (149,265)
- Hunterdon County, NJ (128,349)
- Pike County, PA (57,369)
The New York-Newark-Bridgeport Combined Statistical Area also contains the counties in the following regions:
- Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk Metropolitan Statistical Area (916.829)
- Fairfield County, CT (902,775)
- New Haven-Milford Metropolitan Statistical Area (862,477)
- New Haven County, CT (862,477)
- Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area (670,301)
- Orange County, NY (372,813)
- Dutchess County, NY (297,488)
- Trenton-Ewing Metropolitan Statistical Area (366,513)
- Mercer County, NJ (366,513)
- Torrington Micropolitan Statistical Area (189,927)
- Litchfield County, CT (189,927)
- Kingston Metropolitan Statistical Area (182,493)
- Ulster County, NY (182,493)
Highways
Interstates
- Interstate 78
- Interstate 80
- Interstate 84
- Interstate 87
- Interstate 95
- Interstate 195
- Interstate 278
- Interstate 280
- Interstate 287 - the western bypass around New York City
- Interstate 295 (New York)
- Interstate 478
- Interstate 495 - also known as the Long Island Expressway or LIE
- Interstate 678
- Interstate 684
US Routes
More expressways
- Belt Parkway
- Bronx River Parkway
- Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive - in short: FDR Drive or The Drive
- Garden State Parkway
- Grand Central Parkway
- Harlem River Drive
- Henry Hudson Parkway
- Hutchinson River Parkway
- Merritt Parkway
- New Jersey Turnpike
- New York State Thruway
- Northern State Parkway
- Palisades Interstate Parkway
- Saw Mill River Parkway
- Sprain Brook Parkway
- Taconic State Parkway
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas. census.gov, accessed July 30, 2012 .
- ^ Alan Berube, Jesus Leal Trujillo, Tao Ran, and Joseph Parilla: Global Metro Monitor . In: Brookings . January 22, 2015 ( brookings.edu [accessed July 19, 2018]).
- ↑ Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Counties: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2011. census.gov, accessed on July 30, 2012 .