Combined Statistical Areas by Area in Square Miles

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Yuri

Counties size doesn’t make US metro areas to be oversized population wise.

But it does make their land area and population density values utterly meaningless.

Chicagoland does not sprawl across 7,000 or 10,000 square miles of land in any real world functional sense.

The combined area of 2,500 square miles of the Chicago UA + Round Lake UA + Kenosha UA is millions of times closer to reality.