If you add Hudson, Essex, union, and southern Bergen counties, this is an urban area of about what, 2 million people. This is a contiguous part of NY, same as Lambeth is a part of London. Add the inner urban area of west Chester and Nassau and New York is a city of around 11 million.
The inner suburbs of New York like Nassau, north nj, and west Chester /inner Fairfield county are not sprawl, but rather a combination of dense postwar tract housing, 19th century towns and cities that eventually grew suburbs and merged. The population living here is around 7 million. You see areas like this in the outer regions of London (similar built environment etc)
The sprawl, accounting for only amount 1 million of the urban areas population but substantial part of its land area, is mostly forested (few farms).London is fortunate to have a green belt instead of this component of low density sprawl.
However when comparing apples to apples of urban areas with similar densities, New York is around 18 million people, a much larger city than London at around 12 or 13 million.
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