NEW YORK metropolitan area

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. 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