Largest Metropolitan Areas in 2009
These are the fifteen metropolitan areas of the Southeastern region which exceed 1 million in population according to the United States Census Bureau's 2009 estimates:
Beyond Megalopolis by Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, an attempt to update Jean Gottmann's work with current trends, defines two "megapolitan areas" contained within the Southeast, out of a total of ten such areas in the United States:
- "Piedmont" extending from North Carolina to Alabama
- "Peninsula" covering South Florida and Central Florida
Two others tie some areas on the margins of the Southeast to urban centers in other regions:
- "Gulf Coast" extending as far east as the western tip of Florida
- "Northeast" including much of eastern Virginia
| Rank | Metropolitan Area | Anchor City | Population | State(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach | Miami | 5,547,051 | Florida |
| 2 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria | Washington D.C. | 5,476,241 | District of Columbia / Virginia / Maryland / West Virginia |
| 3 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta | Atlanta | 5,475,213 | Georgia / Alabama |
| 4 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater | Tampa | 2,747,272 | Florida |
| 5 | Baltimore-Towson | Baltimore | 2,668,056 | Maryland |
| 6 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford | Orlando | 2,082,421 | Florida |
| 7 | Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill | Charlotte | 1,840,000 | North Carolina / South Carolina |
| 8 | Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News | Norfolk | 1,674,498 | Virginia / North Carolina |
| 9 | Raleigh-Durham | Raleigh | 1,625,827 | North Carolina |
| 10 | Piedmont Triad | Greensboro | 1,599,074 | North Carolina |
| 11 | Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin | Nashville | 1,582,264 | Tennessee |
| 12 | Jacksonville | Jacksonville | 1,328,144 | Florida |
| 13 | Memphis | Memphis | 1,304,926 | Tennessee / Mississippi / Arkansas |
| 14 | Louisville-Jefferson County | Louisville | 1,258,577 | Kentucky/Indiana |
| 15 | Richmond | Richmond | 1,238,187 | Virginia |
| 16 | New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner | New Orleans | 1,189,981 | Louisiana |
| 17 | Birmingham-Hoover | Birmingham | 1,131,070 | Alabama |
| Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Southeastern United States |
Read more about this topic: Southeastern United States
Famous quotes containing the words largest, metropolitan and/or areas:
“He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul.... He needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The discovery of the North Pole is one of those realities which could not be avoided. It is the wages which human perseverance pays itself when it thinks that something is taking too long. The world needed a discoverer of the North Pole, and in all areas of social activity, merit was less important here than opportunity.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)