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This is a list of the largest urban agglomerations in North America. It includes all urban agglomerations whose estimated 2005 population was 750,000 or more.1
| Rank | Name | 2005 population | 1950 population |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mexico City |
19,411,000 | 2,883,000 |
| 2 |  New York City |
18,718,000 | 12,338,000 |
| 3 | Los Angeles |
12,298,000 | 4,046,000 |
| 4 | Chicago |
8,814,000 | 4,999,000 |
| 5 | Miami |
5,434,000 | 622,000 |
| 6 | Philadelphia |
5,392,000 | 3,128,000 |
| 7 |  Toronto |
5,312,000 | 1,068,000 |
| 8 | Dallas–Fort Worth |
4,655,000 | 866,000 |
| 9 | Boston |
4,361,000 | 2,551,000 |
| 10 | Houston |
4,320,000 | 709,000 |
| 11 | Atlanta |
4,304,000 | 513,000 |
| 12 | Washington, D.C. |
4,238,000 | 1,298,000 |
| 13 | Detroit |
4,034,000 | 2,769,000 |
| 14 | Guadalajara |
3,968,000 | 403,000 |
| 15 | Montreal |
3,640,000 | 1,343,000 |
| 16 | Monterrey |
3,596,000 | 356,000 |
| 17 | Phoenix |
3,416,000 | 221,000 |
| 18 | San Francisco–Oakland |
3,385,000 | 1,855,000 |
| 19 | Seattle |
2,989,000 | 795,000 |
| 20 | San Diego |
2,852,000 | 440,000 |
| 21 |  San Juan |
2,605,000 | 451,000 |
| 22 | Minneapolis–Saint Paul |
2,556,000 | 996,000 |
| 23 | Tampa |
2,252,000 | 300,000 |
| 24 | Denver |
2,239,000 | 505,000 |
| 25 | Baltimore |
2,205,000 | 1,168,000 |
| 26 |  Havana |
2,189,000 | 1,147,000 |
| 27 | Vancouver |
2,188,000 | 556,000 |
| 28 | St. Louis |
2,159,000 | 1,407,000 |
| 29 |  Port-au-Prince |
2,129,000 | 133,000 |
| 30 |  Santo Domingo |
2,022,000 | 219,000 |
| 31 | Cleveland |
1,855,000 | 1,392,000 |
| 32 | Puebla |
1,824,000 | 227,000 |
| 33 | Portland |
1,810,000 | 516,000 |
| 34 | Pittsburgh |
1,806,000 | 1,539,000 |
| 35 | Las Vegas |
1,720,000 | 35,000 |
| 36 | Riverside |
1,690,000 | 139,000 |
| 37 | Tijuana |
1,649,000 | 60,000 |
| 38 | San Jose |
1,631,000 | 182,000 |
| 39 | Cincinnati |
1,599,000 | 881,000 |
| 40 | Sacramento |
1,555,000 | 216,000 |
| 41 | Toluca |
1,545,000 | 54,000 |
| 42 | Ciudad Juárez |
1,540,000 | 123,000 |
| 43 |  San Salvador |
1,517,000 | 194,000 |
| 44 | León |
1,481,000 | 123,000 |
| 45 | Virginia Beach |
1,460,000 | 391,000 |
| 46 | Kansas City |
1,437,000 | 703,000 |
| 47 | San Antonio |
1,436,000 | 454,000 |
| 48 | Indianapolis |
1,387,000 | 505,000 |
| 49 | Milwaukee |
1,361,000 | 836,000 |
| 50 | Orlando |
1,306,000 | 75,000 |
| 51 | Providence |
1,248,000 | 703,000 |
| 52 | Columbus |
1,236,000 | 441,000 |
| 53 |  San José |
1,217,000 | 148,000 |
| 54 |  Panama City |
1,216,000 | 171,000 |
| 55 |  Managua |
1,165,000 | 110,000 |
| 56 | Ottawa |
1,156,000 | 282,000 |
| 57 | Austin |
1,107,000 | 137,000 |
| 58 | Torreón |
1,072,000 | 189,000 |
| 59 | Calgary |
1,058,000 | 132,000 |
| 60 | Memphis |
1,053,000 | 409,000 |
| 61 | Edmonton |
1,015,000 | 163,000 |
| 62 | New Orleans |
1,010,000 | 664,000 |
| 63 | Buffalo |
999,000 | 899,000 |
| 64 | Bridgeport–Stamford |
987,000 | 415,000 |
| 65 |  Guatemala City |
984,000 | 428,000 |
| 66 | Jacksonville |
961,000 | 246,000 |
| 67 | Santiago de Querétaro |
947,000 | 49,000 |
| 68 | Charlotte |
946,000 | 142,000 |
| 69 | San Luis Potosí |
946,000 | 132,000 |
| 70 | Salt Lake City |
943,000 | 230,000 |
| 71 | Mérida |
939,000 | 143,000 |
| 72 |  Tegucigalpa |
927,000 | 73,000 |
| 73 | Louisville |
924,000 | 476,000 |
| 74 | Hartford |
894,000 | 425,000 |
| 75 | Richmond |
888,000 | 260,000 |
| 76 | Mexicali |
860,000 | 66,000 |
| 77 | Aguascalientes |
859,000 | 94,000 |
| 78 | Nashville |
848,000 | 261,000 |
| 79 | Culiacán |
812,000 | 49,000 |
| 80 | Tucson |
798,000 | 77,000 |
| 81 | Tuxtla Gutiérrez |
788,000 | 28,000 |
| 82 | Oklahoma City |
773,000 | 278,000 |
| 83 | Acapulco |
769,000 | 29,000 |
| 84 | Honolulu |
767,000 | 250,000 |
| 85 | Dayton |
754,000 | 350,000 |
See also
- World's largest urban agglomerations
- List of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas
- Largest cities in the Americas
References
- ^ List based on 1950 and 2005 figures in Table A.12, World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 Revision, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, United Nations. Accessed on line January 1, 2008.
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