What Are The 11 MEGAREGIONS Of The United States?

▶ In this video I talk about the Megaregions of the United States. From Cascadia to Northern & Southern California, travelling through the Arizona Sun Belt, the Front Range and the Texas Triangle. Then moving towards the Gulf Coast, Piedmont Atlantic, the Great Lakes, and the Northeast Atlantic region. Learning what a megaregion is and what the impact of these super urban areas have in the country.

TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 Intro
00:36 What Is A MegaRegion / Megalopolis?
01:00 Metropolis vs Megalopolis
01:21 MegaRegions In The US
02:04 InVideo Sponsorship
03:27 Arizona Sun Corridor
03:39 Cascadia / Pacific Northwest
03:59 Florida Peninsula
04:32 Front Range
04:55 The Great Lakes
05:20 The Gulf Coast
05:42 Texas Triangle
05:54 Northeast / Boston-Washington Corridor
06:09 Northern California
06:19 Southern California
06:36 Piedmont-Atlantic
06:44 How Most Of Americans Live In These
07:05 Potential Formation Of "Gigalopolis"?
07:41 A Closer Look At Each Megaregion:
07:44 Arizona Sun Corridor
08:13 Megaregions By Counties
08:22 Cascadia / Pacific Northwest
08:59 Florida's Panhandle
09:29 Front Range / Southern Rocky Mountain Front
09:47 The Great Lakes
10:07 Great Lakes Basin
10:36 Gulf Coast
10:52 Northern & Southern California
11:23 Piedmont-Atlantic
12:00 Northeast
12:30 Texas Triangle
12:54 Large Urban Regions That Aren't Considered Megaregions
13:34 Summary

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[pureteddybear_]

Very minor correction: Alabama never claimed the Florida panhandle, but the people there did want to separate from Florida and join Alabama. By US law, however, Alabama would have to pay Florida for the land, and they were not interested in putting forth the funds to do so. The movement eventually fell off.

[Eyeless_Camper]

I misread that as "What Are The 11 MEGATRONS Of The United States?"

[bmjv]

Most of these are a real stretch. There are pretty large stretches of rural areas between some of these cities.

[ptorq]

It's a REAL stretch to include Kansas City (and to a lesser extent St. Louis) part of the "Great Lakes" megaregion. They're reasonably large cities with their own metropolitan areas, but they do not even touch each other, let alone join with Chicago's. At Interstate highway speeds, there's conservatively at least three hours of pretty much open farmland in the middle of Missouri interrupted only by Columbia (which isn't much of an interruption).

[jonasroush]

Bro made Piedmont sound way fancier than how we say it

[blastme]

As an ex long haul trucker back in the early 2000's we would do whatever it took to not use I-95 going up into the northeastern areas. We would try our best to go up that way by using I-81 and then cut over to whatever area we were going to. The times I took 95 straight down through all those major cities was a complete time killer.

[FrutoseDeMorango]

It would be cool if you continued this with other major countries like Brazil, China, India, Russia, Germany, Nigeria and others.

[MateoQuixote]

I'm excited for the Portugal megaregion video! I'm a long time subscriber an I know you're Portuguese so I'm excited to finally see a Portugal video

[zebrahunter]

As a Coloradoan, not once would I have considered anything in New Mexico part of the Front Range.

[jacoboros]

Representing the Piedmont-Atlantic here, I can definitely vouch for our infrastructure not being prepared for the rapid growth we're seeing. Our cities are vibrant, but our roads are congested!

[ajhare]

A notable thing about the North East Megalopolis is that it pretty much is one continuously developed megaregion. You can drive from DC to Boston and always be somewhere with buildings

[bryantewell]

I've been to all of and lived in 3 of these regions throughout my life. It's kinda cool seeing this laid out like this, because you can totally tell you're in most of these regions while traveling through them on the interstate. The exceptions to this are Cascadia, Front range, and parts of The Great Lakes. It's interesting that I technically grew up in the Great Lakes area, but only because I live in between Chicago and St. Louis. That area is mostly farmland, very very rural.

[tylerahlstrom]

Living in Albuquerque, I think it’s a stretch to include it into the Denver region. There is about a 3 hour stretch of mostly wilderness between Santa Fe and Pueblo, CO.

[sethkonoff]

Providence, Rhode Island is an absolutely beautiful city with so much history.

[sock]

The Cascadia megaregion is discontiguous by design. In order to prevent urban sprawl Oregon and Washington both have really strict urban growth management laws, and housing boundries that are hardly ever expanded. The zoning laws mean about 98% of new development gets funneled into already existing urban areas. So cities in Cascadia tend much more towards growing in density over growing in size. Seattle has barely physically expanded in over 30 years because of it.

[matthewdovidas]

Not to be picky, but there was either a mis-speak or misinformation put in the Cascadia region. It was said between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains but it's between the Pacific Ocean and the Cascades. Other than that this video was really informative. I used to live in the Front Range, Texas Triangle, SoCal, Northeast, and Great Lakes mega regions and I found these little snapshot views of them were very thorough and informative. Great work

[leafarlopes]

Its always a nice day when you drop videos, abraços mano, bom conteúdo

[danielsentertainmentproduc]

2 upcoming video suggestions
1. Cities that lost their peak populations in history regardless of abandoned/destroyed status by either natural disasters, war, and urban decay.
2. How do Lebanon and Armenia compare?

[josephdegarmo]

The Wasatch Front in Utah, connecting the cities of Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Provo, is one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the U.S. There are even plans to build new locales for MLB and NHL expansion teams.

[Tim.]

8:25 Minor nitpick: Cascadia is largely bounded by the *Cascade Range* (hence the name), not the Rockies.