Canadian cities are about as dense as German cities

[Yuri]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

It actually does exist around Toronto but just isn't considered part of Toronto's metro area for statistical purposes.

For instance, this is in a county that is part of the core NY MSA: https://maps.app.goo.gl/BRQ7G79yVLeZqAGc7

Most of the land area of Putnam County looks like that. And I believe every inch of Putnam county is included in Demographia's calculation of the NY Metro land area. Putnam County would never be included in a major Canadian city's statistical area. Putnam County has a land area as large as New York City's but not even 100,000 residents live there. In fact, the population density of the entire county would classify it as rural.

Demographia does not metropolitan areas list, but urbanized areas ones. There are only a small section of it, on its south central portion included.

Here we have maps for all US urbanized areas: https://www.citypopulation.de/en/usa/ua/

New York (plus Bridgeport) has 20,342,857 inh., within 9,442 km2 and a 2,154 inh./km2.

I once did an exercise including New York City, Nassau, Essex, Hudson and Union and parts of Bergen, Middlesex, Passaic and Westchester. I found 15,041,390 people living within 3,555 km2 for a 4,231 inh./km2 density.

We could infer, subtracting those numbers, that are 5,301,467 people living in a 5,887 km2, for a 900 inh./km2 density. That's a massive number of people living in very low densities and a massive amount of otherwise farmland and nature that's now occupied by wasterful development.