New York metropolitan aurie

The **New York metropolitan area**, kent as **Metropolitan New York**, **Greater New York**, or the **Tri-State area** an aa, is the maist populous metropolitan area in the Unitit States an is ane o the maist populous in the warld an aa. The metropolitan area is defined bi the U.S. Office of Management and Budget as the *New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania [[Unitit States metropolitan aurie|Metropolitan Statistical area]] (MSA)*, wi a population o 18,897,109 as o the 2010 census. (aboot 1 in 16 Americans) as o 2010. The MSA is further subdividit intae fower metropolitan diveesions. The 23-coonty metropolitan area includes ten coonties in New York State (those coincidin wi the five burghs o New York Ceety, the twa coonties o Long Island, an three coonties in the lawer Hudson Valley); 12 coonties in Northren an Central New Jersey; an ane coonty in northeastren Pennsylvania. The lairgest urbanised area in the Unitit States is at the heart of the metropolitan area, the *New York–Newark, NY–NJ–CT Urbanised area* (estimatit tae hae a population o 18,319,939 as o 2008 an an area o 6,720 square miles). The region serves as the hert o the Northeast megalopolis an aa. 

This wider region includes the lairgest ceety in the Unitit States (New York Ceety), the five lairgest ceeties in New Jersey (Newark, Jersey Ceety, Elizabeth, Paterson an Trenton) an sax o the seiven lairgest ceeties in Connecticut (Bridgeport, New Haven, Stamford, Waterbury, Norwalk & Danbury). The total land area o the extendit metropolitan area is 11,842 sq mi (30,671 km2).

## Definitions
The coonties an coonty groupins constitutin the New York metropolitan area are leetit belaw wi 2009 U.S. Census Bureau estimates o their populations.

New York-Northren New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA Metropolitan Statistical area (19,069,796)
* New York-White Plains-Wayne, NY-NJ Metropolitan Diveesion (11,732,233)
** Kings Coonty (Brooklyn), NY
** Queens Conty, NY
** New York Coonty (Manhattan), NY
** Bronx Coonty, NY
** Richmond Coonty (Staten Island), NY
** Westchester Coonty, NY
** Bergen Coonty, NJ
** Hudson County, NJ
** Passaic Coonty, NJ
** Rockland Coonty, NY
** Putnam Coonty, NY
* Nassau-Suffolk, NY Metropolitan Diveesion (2,875,904)
** Suffolk Coonty
** Nassau Coonty
* Edison-New Brunswick, NJ Metropolitan Division (2,335,390)
** Middlesex Coonty
** Monmouth Coonty
** Ocean Coonty
** Somerset Coonty
* Newark-Union, NJ-PA Metropolitan Diveesion (2,126,269)
** Essex Coonty, NJ
** Union Coonty, NJ
** Morris Coonty, NJ
** Sussex Coonty, NJ
** Hunterdon Coonty, NJ
** Pike Coonty, PA

## Cultur
### Sports teams

Leetin o the professional sports teams in the New York metropolitan area
* National Basketball Association (NBA)
** New Jersey Nets
** New York Knicks
* Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)
** New York Liberty
* Major League Baseball (MLB)
** New York Mets
** New York Yankees 
* Minor League Baseball (MiLB)
** Brooklyn Cyclones
** Hudson Valley Renegades
** Staten Island Yankees
** Trenton Thunder
* Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB)
** Bridgeport Bluefish
** Lakewood Blue Claws
** Long Island Ducks
** Newark Bears
** Rockland Boulders
** Somerset Patriots
* National Football League (NFL)
** New York Giants
** New York Jets
* National Hockey League (NHL)
** New Jersey Devils
** New York Islanders
** New York Rangers
* American Hockey League (AHL)
** Bridgeport Sound Tigers
* East Coast Hockey League (ECHL)
** Trenton Devils
* Major League Soccer (MLS)
** New York Red Bulls
* Arena Football League (AFL)
** New York Dragons
* Major League Lacrosse (ootdoor) (MLL)
** Long Island Lizards
** New Jersey Pride
* World Team Tennis (WTT)
** New York Buzz
** New York Sportimes
### Media

The New York Ceety metropolitan area is the heidquarters o sindry weel kent media companies, sic as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Fox News, ABC, CBS an NBC. Local television channels include WCBS-TV (CBS 2), WNBC (NBC 4),  WNYW (Fox 5), WWOR
(MyNetwork), WABC (ABC), WPIX (The CW), WPXN (Ion), WNET (PBS), NY1, an NYCTV. Radio stations servin the area include: WNYC, WFMU, WABC, an WFAN. Efter the World Trade Center wis destroyed, frae whilk mony broadcastin TV an radio stations uised tae transmit their signals, the Empire State Building wis waled as the new location tae transmit their signals.

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