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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
I've been hearing this a lot lately with the Rob Ford happenings.
Here it's listed as 8th, but it's really more like 10th if the SF Bay area and Washington-Baltimore are combined.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of..._by_population
But it is the 4th largest municipality in NA. Just ahead of Chicago. |
Yeah, it depends where you stop counting. I wasn't including Mexico in NA. You could say Toronto extends from Oshawa to St. Catharines. What is the population of the Golden Horseshoe? Maybe even include out to Guelph, Waterloo and K-W.
Golden Horseshoe is 8,759,312:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_horseshoe
The population of the Greater Golden Horseshoe is 8.7 million residents as of the 2011 census.[1]
The region is projected to grow to 11.5 million people by 2031.[4] The definition of the Golden Horseshoe as an agglomerated urban area, that is combining Census Metropolitan Areas is similar to how population counts are tabulated for Combined statistical area, which are used in the USA to combine more than one metropolitan area, defined as an MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area), into a larger overall urbanized area. These metropolitan areas are intrinsically linked through inter-dependence of services, trade, transportation corridors, close proximity and other factors, in this context they can also be viewed as a single region. In terms of population, the Greater Horseshoe is the 5th most populous greater urbanized area in North America, just behind the Baltimore-DC-Northern Virginia CSA, as of 2011.
You can see why the NFL would be interested in this market. In fact, all of Canada could be a secondary market (as for the Blue Jays).