This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the Americas.

rank[1]	city center[1]	metropolitan area name[1]	population (2008 estimate)[1]
1	Mexico City, Mexico	Greater Mexico City	22,968,205
2	New York City, United States	New York Metropolitan Area	22,933,398
3	São Paulo, Brazil	Greater São Paulo	20,218,868
4	Los Angeles, United States	Greater Los Angeles	17,745,055
5	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Greater Buenos Aires	14,197,085
6	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Greater Rio de Janeiro	11,975,998
7	Chicago, United States	Chicago Metropolitan Area/Chicagoland	9,527,721
8	Washington-Baltimore, United States	Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area	8,263,506
9	Bogotá, Colombia	Metropolitan Area of Bogotá	8,148,808
10	Lima, Peru	Lima Metropolitan Area	7,804,611
11	San Francisco, United States	San Francisco Bay Area	7,610,343
12	Dallas-Fort Worth, United States	Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex	6,387,814
13	Toronto, Canada	Greater Toronto Area	6,324,456
14	Philadelphia, United States	Delaware Valley	6,276,778
15	Boston, United States	Greater Boston	6,170,948
16	Detroit-Windsor, United States/Canada	Windsor-Detroit	5,827,740
17	Houston, United States	Greater Houston	5,575,040
18	Belo Horizonte, Brazil		5,395,601
19	Atlanta, United States	Atlanta Metropolitan Area	5,255,026
20	Santiago, Chile		5,090,824
21	San Diego-Tijuana, United States/Mexico	San Diego-Tijuana Metropolitan Area	4,912,513
22	Miami, United States	South Florida	4,893,777
23	Caracas, Venezuela		4,259,737
24	Phoenix, United States	Phoenix Metropolitan Area	4,259,713
25	Guadalajara, Mexico		4,149,804
26	Porto Alegre, Brazil		3,971,158
27	Seattle, United States	Seattle Metropolitan Area	3,929,382
28	Monterrey, Mexico	Monterrey Metropolitan area	3,868,493
29	Montreal, Canada	Greater Montreal Area	3,763,715
30	Recife, Brazil		3,738,978
31	Salvador, Brazil		3,703,722
32	Fortaleza, Brazil		3,371,858
33	Curitiba, Brazil		3,359,490
34	Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic	Greater Santo Domingo	3,338,850
35	Guatemala City, Guatemala	Guatemala Metropolitan Area	3,293,168
36	Medellín, Colombia		3,284,894
37	Minneapolis-Saint Paul, United States	Minneapolis-Saint Paul	3,257,572
38	Cleveland, United States	Greater Cleveland	2,942,513
39	Puebla, Mexico		2,848,282
40	Denver, United States	Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Area	2,757,504
41	St. Louis, United States	Greater St. Louis	2,660,123
42	Tampa, United States	Tampa Bay Area	2,651,672
43	Cali, Colombia		2,635,017
44	Portland, United States	Portland Metropolitan Area	2,608,844
45	Havana, Cuba		2,599,655
46	Maracaibo, Venezuela		2,406,719
47	Brasília, Brazil		2,406,478
48	Belém, Brazil		2,401,954
49	Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, Mexico/United States		2,397,732
50	Pittsburgh, United States	Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area	2,307,169

Footnotes

See also

• List of major cities in Brazil
• List of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in Canada
• United States metropolitan area
• List of United States metropolitan statistical areas by population
• List of United States cities by population
• List of metropolitan areas of Mexico
• World largest cities