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World Urban Areas Covering the Most Land Area
Suburban and Central City Data

    Urban Area     Largest City (Central City)     Suburbs      
Rank Urban Area Population Land Area
Square
Miles		 Density Population Land Area:
Square
Miles		 Rank Density Population Land Area:
Square
Miles		 Rank Density
1 New York 17,800,000 3,353 5,309 8,008,000 303 4 26,429 9,792,000 3,050 1 3,210
2 Tokyo-Yokohama 33,200,000 2,700 12,296 8,130,000 239 5 34,017 25,070,000 2,461 2 10,187
3 Chicago 8,308,000 2,123 3,913 2,891,000 227 6 12,736 5,417,000 1,896 3 2,857
4 Atlanta 3,500,000 1,963 1,783 416,000 132 9 3,152 3,084,000 1,831 4 1,684
5 Philadelphia 5,149,000 1,799 2,862 1,518,000 135 8 11,244 3,631,000 1,664 6 2,182
6 Boston 4,032,000 1,736 2,323 589,000 48 13 12,271 3,443,000 1,688 5 2,040
7 Los Angeles 11,789,000 1,668 7,068 3,695,000 469 2 7,878 8,094,000 1,199 7 6,751
8 Dallas-Fort Worth 4,146,000 1,407 2,947 1,189,000 343 3 3,466 2,957,000 1,064 11 2,779
9 Houston 3,823,000 1,295 2,952 1,953,000 580 1 3,367 1,870,000 715 15 2,615
10 Detroit 3,903,000 1,261 3,095 951,000 139 7 6,842 2,952,000 1,122 8 2,631
11 Washington 3,934,000 1,157 3,400 572,000 61 12 9,377 3,362,000 1,096 9 3,068
12 Miami 4,919,000 1,116 4,408 362,000 26 15 13,923 4,557,000 1,090 10 4,181
13 Nagoya 9,000,000 1,110 8,108 2,171,000 126 10 17,230 6,829,000 984 13 6,940
14 Paris 9,645,000 1,051 9,177 2,125,000 41 14 51,829 7,520,000 1,010 12 7,446
15 Essen-Dusseldorf 7,350,000 1,020 7,206 589,000 73 11 8,068 6,761,000 947 14 7,139
Data from Demographia World Urban Areas (Demographia World Urban Areas)
Data as of 2006.02.28

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