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Originally Posted by softee
The inner Core of the Golden Horseshoe is only 3,898.65 sq mi (10,097.45 km2) with a population of 7,759,635 as of the 2021 census. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex has an area of 8,675 sq mi (22,468 km2) with a population of 7,637,387.
The Extended Golden Horseshoe with 9,765,188 people as of the 2021 census is 12,185.99 sq mi (31,561.57 km2). I don't think it's a big enough area to qualify as a "region" akin to Southern or Northern California, it's more similar in size to Chicagoland, The Bay Area or Washington-Baltimore.
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It doesn't work like that. I can chop away countless census tracts from Dallas MSA, bringing it down to below 10,000 km2 losing only 200k inhabitants or so. Dallas is kinda western metropolis and the urban development ceases quite abruptly outside the urban footprint there are only prairies.
If you do the same exercise elsewhere, I put the whole Philadelphia MSA inside 31,000 km2 New York region, or Milwaukee, Rockford, South Bend all inside Chicago.
Toronto+Hamilton+Oshawa+Guelph are perfectly comparable with US MSAs and even some CSAs.