Thread: Which Is the Most Sprawling City in the World? (in the U.S. by most measures)
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Old Posted Apr 21, 2017, 9:24 PM
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Originally Posted by SlidellWx View Post
According to the .pdf file linked to by the OP, the Toronto Urban Area includes both Hamilton and Oshawa. Population of ~6,530,000 over 888 square miles results in a population density of ~7,200 ppsm. Not too far off of those statistics.

I have in-laws in Oakville, and the overall density of the built out portions of the GTA always looks fairly uniform to me.
Correct. Since Toronto, Hamilton and Oshawa are all separate CMAs, Statcan counts their urban areas separately from one another even thought they have long since grown into each other and formed one contiguous urban area.

Demographia has rightly combined them into a single urban area.
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