page_title: New York metropolitan area
section_title: Urban areas of the region
hierarchical_section_title: New York metropolitan area / Geography / Urban areas of the region
caption_attribution_description: Summary Barnum museum is housed in this architectural treasure en:Category:Images of Connecticut 03:09, 10 December 2005 GK tramrunner 768x880 (95558 bytes) (Barnum museum is housed in this architectural treasure)
context_page_description: The New York metropolitan area is the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, at 3,450.2 sq mi. The metropolitan area includes New York City, Long Island, and the Mid and Lower Hudson Valley in the state of New York; the five largest cities in New Jersey: Newark, Jersey City, Paterson, Elizabeth, and Edison, and their vicinities; and six of the seven largest cities in Connecticut: Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk, and Danbury, and their vicinities. The New York metropolitan area is part of the larger Northeast Megalopolis.
  The New York metropolitan area remains, by a significant margin, the most populous in the United States, as defined by both the Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Combined Statistical Area. The metropolitan area is home to approximately 6% of the United States' population. It is the largest urban agglomeration in the Americas and the tenth largest in the world. The New York metropolitan area continues to be the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States, with the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world.
context_section_description: The combined statistical area is a multicore metropolitan region containing several urban areas.
caption: Barnum Museum in Bridgeport, Fairfield County, Connecticut's most populous city
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