New York metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area, broadly referred to as the Tri-State area and often also called Greater New York, is the largest metropolitan economy in the world, with a gross metropolitan product of over US$2.6 trillion, and the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass, encompassing 4,669.0 sq mi (12,093 km2). The New York metropolitan area is one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world, the largest metropolitan area in the U.S., and the only U.S. metropolitan area home to more than 20 million residents as of the 2020 United States census.

The vast metropolitan area includes New York City and the rest of Downstate New York (Long Island and the mid and lower Hudson Valley), northern and central New Jersey (including its eleven largest municipalities), and western Connecticut (including four of its seven largest cities). The phrase Tri-State area is usually used to refer to New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, although an increasing number of people who work in New York City commute from Pennsylvania, particularly from the Lehigh Valley, Bucks County, and Poconos regions in eastern Pennsylvania, making the metropolitan area span across four states. The New York metropolitan area is the geographic and demographic hub of the larger Northeast megalopolis.

The New York metropolitan area is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States with 20.1 million residents, or slightly over 6% of the nation's total population, as of 2020. The combined statistical area includes 23.6 million residents as of 2020. It is one of the largest urban agglomerations in the world. The New York metropolitan area continues to be the premier gateway for legal immigration to the United States, having the largest foreign-born population of any metropolitan region in the world. The metropolitan statistical area covers 6,140 sq mi (15,903 km2) while the combined statistical area is 13,318 sq mi (34,493 km2), encompassing an ethnically and geographically diverse region.