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In the D.C. metro area, there is a carpooling practice known as "slugging." Strangers wait on a corner to be picked up by another stranger so that the driver can use the HOV lane. Oh and it's all for free.

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Panera Bread is called Saint Louis Bread Company exclusively in the St. Louis metro area.

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  1. Pennsyltucky is a term used to describe the culture and politics of Pennsylvania outside of the major metro areas Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

  2. Baltimore and Washington DC are slowly becoming one city with a metro area covering 4 states, and a total population of over 9 million people

  3. Approximately 20 street dogs in Moscow, Russia are believed to have learned how to use the Metro stations as a means of commuting between different areas of town

  4. Hermosillo is the capital and largest city in Sonora. It has a metro area of more than 800,000 people.

  5. Nuevo Leon has the highest GDP of any Mexican state, but most of the state's money and development is in the Monterrey metro area. Large parts of the remainder of the state, especially in the south, are relatively poor and somewhat undeveloped.

  6. Aguascalientes City is the capital and largest city in the state. With a metro population of more than one million people, Aguascalientes City is one of the most densely populated cities in Mexico, which also means that most inhabitants of Aguascalientes live in the capital's metro area.

  7. Most of Nuevo Leon's other major cities, such as Guadalupe, Santa Catarina, and San Pedro Garza Garcia, are also part of the Monterrey metro area. Outside of the Monterrey metro area there are few cities of significant size.

  8. Saltilo is the capital and largest city in Coahuila. It is located in southeastern Coahuila and has a metro area of nearly one million people.

  9. The northern part of Morelos borders the Federal District of Mexico City, making it part of the Mexico City metro area.

  10. The Greater Los Angeles area is the largest metro in California.

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Median home price in America's most expensive and least expensive metro area, 1991-2019

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The United States' top 25 metro areas account for more than half of the nation's $19.5T GDP

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There are more than five million people living in Nuevo Leon, making it eighth most populous Mexican state. Because the majority of those people live in the Monterrey metro area, the is fourteenth in density.

Monterrey is the capital and largest city in Neuvo Leon. It has more than four and a half million people in its metro area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in Mexico.

Ciudad Victoria is the capital of Tamaulipas. It is located in the central part of the state and has just over 300,000 people in its metro area. Reynosa is the largest city in the state with more than 600,000 people but with a metro area of more than twice that. Reynosa is located just across the Rio Grande from McAllen, Texas and is considered part of that city's metro area.

The capital and largest city in the state is San Luis Potosi City, which has a metro area of over one million people.

The NYC metro area has the same GDP as the entire continent of Africa (excluding Nigeria). - source

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About Larry Walters, a guy from the LA metro area who used 45 weather balloons to power a normal lawn chair 15,000 feet (4600 m) into the air in 1982. He illegally went into LAX airspace, and eventually landed in Long Beach on some power lines. He was unhurt.

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Frankfurt is the only German city considered an alpha city. It is the 2nd largest metro area in Germany & 50% of the population is foreign born. With 922 jobs per 1000 people it also has the highest concentration of jobs in Germany.

The Phoenix metro area's current canal system was first built by ancient natives around 450 AD

In 2013 the Adelaide Desalination Plant opened on the eastern shore of the Gulf St Vincent, at Lonsdale, South Australia. This plant removes the salt from the water to provide desalinated water to residents in the Adelaide metro area.

It is estimated that more than 50% of the residents in British Columbia live in Vancouver's Metro area.

The capital and largest city in Oaxaca is Oaxaca de Juarez, which referred to by the locals as Oaxaca. The metro area of the city is more than 650,000 people.

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Routes to Pizza Places in the NY Metro Area


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The gap between the poor and the wealthy in America's largest metro areas


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San Pablo del Monte is the largest city in Tlaxcala, although its population is only just over 55,000 people. San Pablo del Monte is a suburb of the much larger Puebla City, Puebla and is therefore part of a metro area of more than three million people.

A famine attributed mostly to mismanagement by Chairman Mao caused the death of 30 million people (median) in the early 1960s, equivalent to wiping out the entire NYC and LA metro area.

A man in Portland metro area buried school buses in protest to a prison opening across the street from his house.

40% of all public transit trips in the US occur in the New York metro area.

The 28-county region that the U.S. Census bureau considers to be metro Atlanta has a bigger land area than the entire state of Massachusetts

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In 2011 three of the four American major sports championships -- the World Series, Super Bowl, and NBA finals -- were all hosted in the same metro area (Dallas) for the first time ever, using the stadium or arena of all 4 pro Dallas teams.

1 out of every 14 Americans lives in the New York City metropolitan area, and 1 out of every 8 lives in either the NYC or L.A. metro areas

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Edmonton has the second largest Aboriginal population of any metro area in Canada after Winnipeg and the population is expected to increase by 89% by 2036.

A Chinese real estate investors are partly responsible for rising real estate prices in major international metro areas, such as New York City and Toronto.

Manila is not the largest city in the Philippines. Quezon City is the largest in the country and the largest city in Metro Manila in both population and area.

The Pearl River Delta is the largest urban agglomeration in the world. 47M people live in an area smaller than metro Tokyo with another 7M in adjacent Hong Kong.

The Chicago metro area has nearly twice the population of the the entire state of Minnesota.

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