The population of the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan Bay Area is 8.3 million [1]. The population of the Baltimore-Washington DC metropolitan area i

The population of the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metropolitan Bay Area is 8.3 million [1]. The population of the Baltimore-Washington DC metropolitan area is 9.3 million [2]. That doesn't seem that significant. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland,_CA_Combined_Statistical_Area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Jose-San_Francisco-Oakland... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_metropolitan_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%E2%80%93Washington_m...