A map of the United States with the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex highlighted. The Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex (officially called the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area by the US Office of Management and Budget ) is a large metropolitan area of Texas which includes the 11 counties in the area.[ 1] Residents of the area also refer to it as the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex , DFW , or the Metroplex . It is the economic and cultural hub of the region. DFW is the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States .[ 2]
Counties Major cities Cities and towns 100k–300k Cities and towns 25k–99k Cities and towns 10k–25k
New York, New York Los Angeles, California Chicago, Illinois Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas Houston, Texas Atlanta, Georgia Washington, D.C. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Miami, Florida Phoenix, Arizona Boston, Massachusetts Riverside–San Bernardino, California San Francisco–Oakland, California Detroit, Michigan Seattle, Washington Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota Tampa, Florida San Diego, California Denver, Colorado Baltimore, Maryland Orlando, Florida Charlotte, North Carolina St. Louis, Missouri San Antonio, Texas Portland, Oregon Austin, Texas Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sacramento, California Las Vegas, Nevada Cincinnati, Ohio Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas Columbus, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio Indianapolis, Indiana Nashville, Tennessee San Juan, Puerto Rico San Jose, California Virginia Beach–Norfolk, Virginia Jacksonville, Florida Providence, Rhode Island Milwaukee, Wisconsin Raleigh, North Carolina Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Louisville, Kentucky Richmond, Virginia Memphis, Tennessee Salt Lake City, Utah Birmingham, Alabama Fresno, California Grand Rapids, Michigan Buffalo, New York Hartford, Connecticut Tucson, Arizona Rochester, New York Tulsa, Oklahoma Honolulu, Hawaii Omaha, Nebraska Greenville, South Carolina New Orleans, Louisiana Bridgeport, Connecticut Knoxville, Tennessee Albuquerque, New Mexico Bakersfield, California Sarasota, Florida Albany, New York McAllen, Texas Baton Rouge, Louisiana Allentown–Bethlehem, Pennsylvania El Paso, Texas Worcester, Massachusetts Columbia, South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina Cape Coral, Florida Oxnard, California Boise, Idaho Lakeland, Florida Dayton, Ohio Stockton, California Greensboro, North Carolina Colorado Springs, Colorado Little Rock, Arkansas Des Moines, Iowa Provo, Utah Deltona, Florida Poughkeepsie–Newburgh, New York Akron, Ohio Winston-Salem, North Carolina Madison, Wisconsin Ogden, Utah Syracuse, New York Wichita, Kansas Palm Bay, Florida Augusta, Georgia Jackson, Mississippi Durham, North Carolina Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Spokane, Washington Toledo, Ohio Fayetteville, Arkansas Chattanooga, Tennessee