The largest U.S Metropolitan Areas sequentially arranged in a table according to population estimates are as follows:
| Rank | Metropolitan Area * | State (S) | 2007 Population Estimate |
| 1 | New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island | NY-NJ-PA |
18,815,988 |
| 2 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana | CA |
12,875,587 |
| 3 | New York-White Plains-Wayne | NY-NJ |
11,607,843 |
| 4 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale | CA |
9,878,554 |
| 5 | Chicago-Naperville-Joliet | IL-IN-WI |
9,524,673 |
| 6 | Chicago-Naperville-Joliet | IL |
7,952,540 |
| 7 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington | TX |
6,145,037 |
| 8 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington | PA-NJ-DE-MD |
5,827,962 |
| 9 | Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown | TX |
5,628,101 |
| 10 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach | FL |
5,413,212 |
| 11 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria | DC-VA-MD-WV |
5,306,565 |
| 12 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta | GA |
5,278,904 |
| 13 | Boston-Cambridge-Quincy | MA-NH |
4,482,857 |
| 14 | Detroit-Warren-Livonia | MI |
4,467,592 |
| 15 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont | CA |
4,203,898 |
| 16 | Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale | AZ |
4,179,427 |
| 17 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria | DC-VA-MD-WV |
4,151,047 |
| 18 | Dallas-Plano-Irving | TX |
4,111,529 |
| 19 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario | CA |
4,081,371 |
| 20 | Philadelphia | PA |
3,887,694 |
| 21 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue | WA |
3,309,347 |
| 22 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington | MN-WI |
3,208,212 |
| 23 | Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine | CA |
2,997,033 |
| 24 | San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos | CA |
2,974,859 |
| 25 | St. Louis | MO-IL |
2,803,707 |
| *A metropolitan area consists of a primary population center, such as a major city, and all the adjacent communities that have a high degree of economic and social integration with that population center. Some metropolitan areas are defined around two or more major cities within one state or more as shown in this table of the 25 largest U.S metropolitan areas. Source: U.S. Census |
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