Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by Animats 603 days ago
Compare New York Metropolitan Area.[1] Involves several states. Not a governmental unit.

Metropolitan areas are usually computed by working outward until the density drops. Look at the Pearl River area in satellite imagery. It's a roughly circular high density region, and then farmland appears.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area