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ChiPitts or the Great Lakes Megalopolis refers to a group of metropolitan areas in the Great Lakes region or Midwest of the United States along with Western Pennsylvania and Western New York, extending from Pittsburgh to Chicago (the largest city in the megalopolis) and linked by economics, transport, and communications. The estimated population of this megalopolis is 54 million people.

The term was coined in the 1961 book Megalopolis: The Urbanized Northeastern Seaboard of the United States by French geographer Jean Gottmann. Gottmann also envisaged the development of two similar megalopolises in the US: BosWash from Boston to Washington, DC and SanSan from San Francisco to San Diego.

Beyond Megalopolis by Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, an attempt to update Gottmann's work with current trends, defines a similar Midwest megapolitan area, as one of ten such areas in the United States, avoiding the neologism ChiPitts which has never come into common use.

Criticism

Compared to BosWash, Japan's Pacific Belt, and others, this is a looser collection of cities, spread over a large area with much suburban and rural space in between, rather than a continuous urbanized area, and one review judges it to be "at best a borderline case" of a megalopolis. [1]

Since ChiPitts is very close to Canada's Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, the question which megalopolis many areas in Southern Ontario and Southern Quebec (or contrarily Western New York and Southeast Michigan) belong to is debatable.

Since Gottmann's original publication, many constituent portions of this corridor have suffered job loss and in some cases diminished populations, in the wake of changes in the U.S. economy and the shift of manufacturing jobs to other portions of the U.S. or overseas.

Related terms

The Pittsburgh-Chicago Corridor is an academic Urban Studies term that describes the area running through the Rust Belt from the Mid-Atlantic to the Western Great Lakes. ChiPitts also roughly has the same boundaries as the Rust Belt.

The Steel City Corridor ideally describes the area connecting Cleveland to Pittsburgh via Youngstown-Warren (OH), and Sharon-Farrell-New Castle (PA). Historically, these areas are known as the Steel Valleys (Mahoning and Shenango).

US Census statistics

Rank Combined Statistical Area State(s) 2006 Estimate 2000 Population 1990 Population Percent Change
(1990-2000)
3Chicago-Aurora-Michigan CityIL-IN-WI9,661,8409,312,2558,385,397+11.1
9Detroit-Warren-FlintMI5,428,0005,357,5385,095,695+5.1
14Cleveland-Akron-ElyriaOH2,931,7742,945,8312,859,644+3.0
17Pittsburgh-New CastlePA2,478,8832,525,7302,564,535-0.5
20Cincinnati-Middletown-WilmingtonOH-KY-IN2,147,6172,050,1751,880,332+9.0
22Indianapolis-Anderson-ColumbusIN1,958,4531,843,5881,594,779+15.6
24Columbus–Marion–ChillicotheOH1,936,3511,835,1891,613,711+13.7
26Milwaukee-Racine-WaukeshaWI1,708,5631,689,5721,607,183+5.1
43Buffalo-NiagaraNY1,169,0001,170,1111,189,288-1.6
Combined CSAsUS30,081,293 29,395,067 27,214,987+8.0


The table above does not include:

List of cities

The major cities in the ChiPitts megalopolis include the following: (Note: as it says above, areas in Southern Canada, Western New York and Southeast Michigan can be considered to be a part of the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor, not ChiPitts.)
Megalopolis (Greek for large city, great city) may refer to:
  • Megalopolis (city type), an extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas
  • See also, Megacity, Agglomeration, or Ecumenopolis

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Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America, specifically Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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"In God We Trust"   (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum"   ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

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City of Chicago

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Nickname: "The Windy City", "The Second City", "ChiTown", "Hog Butcher for the World", "City of the Big Shoulders", "The City That Works"
Motto: "Urbs in Horto
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Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
"Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
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Geography - (from the Greek words Geo (γη) or Gaea (γαία), both meaning "Earth", and graphein (γράφειν) meaning "to describe" or "to write"
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(Iona) Jean Gottmann (October 10, 1915 – February 28, 1994) was a French geographer who was most widely known for coining the term megalopolis to describe the condition of the Boston-Washington corridor.
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The BosWash (also referred to as Bosnywash, Boshington, the Northeast Corridor, the BosWash Corridor, or simply the Northeast megalopolis
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Boston, Massachusetts

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Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), The Cradle of Liberty, City on the Hill, Athens of America
Location in Suffolk County in Massachusetts, USA
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Washington, D.C.

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Nickname: DC, The District
Motto: Justitia Omnibus (Justice for All)
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Sansan

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Longitude 00° 36' 30" E
Latitude 43° 31' 53" N

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Country  France
Arrondissement Auch
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City and County of San Francisco
"The Painted Ladies"

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Nickname: The City, The City by the Bay, San Fran, Frisco,[1] Baghdad by the Bay[2]
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City of San Diego
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Nickname: America's Finest City
Motto: Semper Vigilans (Latin: Ever Vigilant)
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Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic university in Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S. Although it is a comprehensive university with many departments, the agriculture, engineering, architecture,
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Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America, specifically Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.
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A Megapolitan Area, or "Megapolitan" for short, are clustered networks of American cities whose population exceeds or will exceed 10 million by the year 2040. There are currently 10 megapolitans identified in the United States.
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neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created ("coined") — often to apply to new concepts, to synthesize pre-existing concepts, or to make older terminology sound more contemporary.
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The BosWash (also referred to as Bosnywash, Boshington, the Northeast Corridor, the BosWash Corridor, or simply the Northeast megalopolis
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The 1,150-kilometre Quebec City-Windsor Corridor is the most densely-populated and heavily-industrialised region of Canada. With over 17 million people (2001 Census), it contained 56.8 percent of the Canadian population, and three of the four largest cities in the country in 2001.
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Ontario


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Québec
Quebec [1]

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Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember)

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Largest city Montreal
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State of Michigan

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Nation millions of dollars percentage cumulative percentage
Canada 23.1192% 23.1192%
Mexico 13.5432% 36.6624%
Japan 6.6509% 43.3133%
United Kingdom 4.3964% 47.7097%
China 4.2449% 51.9546%
Germany 3.8366% 55.7912%
Korea 3.2194% 59.
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