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The Miami metropolitan area anchors a region commonly referred to by local inhabitants as South Florida; it is the metropolitan area comprising Miami, Florida, and nearby communities. The U.S. Office of Management and Budget designates the area as the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL Metropolitan Statistical Area, a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) used for statistical purposes by the United States Census Bureau and other entities. The OMB defines the MSA as comprising Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties—Florida's three most populous counties—with principal cities including Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach, West Palm Beach, and Boca Raton. The Combined Statistical Area, consisting of the three counties, as well as St. Lucie, Martin, Indian River, and Okeechobee counties; adding these four counties to the metro area, the combined area's population racks up to 6,444,610. Principal cities added by the combined area are: Port St. Lucie, Fort Pierce, and Sebastian. Locally the tri-county region is referred to as the South Florida region or megalopolis. With 5,929,819 inhabitants as of 2014, the Miami metropolitan area is the most populous in Florida and second largest in the Southeastern United States behind Greater Washington and the eighth-most populous in the United States. Besides its association with the South Florida region, is also partially synonymous with an area known collectively as the "Gold Coast". Because the population of South Florida is largely confined to a strip of land between the Atlantic Ocean and the Everglades, the Miami urbanized area (that is, the area of contiguous urban development) is about long (north to south), but never more than wide, and in some areas only wide (east to west). The MSA is longer than any other urbanized area in the United States except for the New York metropolitan area.〔PDF(Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach: Linear & Visionless ) – retrieved August 2, 2006〕 It was the eighth most densely populated urbanized area in the United States in the 2000 census.〔(USA Urbanized Areas Over 500,000: 2000 Rankings – Rank by Density ) – URL retrieved September 5, 2006〕 As of the 2000 census, the urbanized area had a land area of , with a population of 4,919,036, for a population density of 4,407.4 per square mile (1,701.7 per square kilometer). Miami and Hialeah (the second largest city in the metropolitan area) had population densities of more than 10,000 per square mile (more than 3,800 per square kilometer).〔(Lists of Census 2000 Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters ) – URL retrieved August 27, 2006〕〔NOTE: large (2.8 MB) PDF file – (UMiami, florida Urbanized Area Outline Map, 2000 Census ) – URL retrieved August 27, 2006〕 The Miami Urbanized Area was the fifth largest urbanized area in the United States in the 2000 census. The Miami metro area also includes several urban clusters (UCs) as of the 2000 Census which are not part of the Miami Urbanized Area. These are the Belle Glade UC, population 24,218, area 20,717,433 square meters and population density of 3027.6 per square mile; Key Biscayne UC, population 10,513, area 4,924,214 square meters and population density of 5529.5 per square mile; Redland UC, population 3,936, area 10,586,212 square meters and population density of 963.0 per square mile; and West Jupiter UC, population 8,998, area 24,737,176 square meters and population density of 942.1 per square mile.〔(State-sorted list for UCs ) – URL retrieved August 27, 2006〕 In 2006, the area had an estimated 5,463,857 persons, of which 1,671,398 live in unincorporated areas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CTYPFL07_rev.xls )〕〔()〕 Considering that the area has an urban population of 4,919,036, only 544,821 residents live outside of the urban area, meaning that ''at least'' 1,126,577 persons live in urban unincorporated areas, but the number is actually higher. ==Metropolitan divisions== The Miami metropolitan area consists of three distinct metropolitan divisions, subdividing the region into three divisions according to the region's three counties: Miami-Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miami metropolitan area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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