Los Angeles is the third largest metropolitan area by GDP (~US$1.2 trillion).
Tokyo is the second largest metropolitan area in terms of GDP (~US$2.1 trillion). Largest metropolitan areas by GDP New York is the largest metropolitan area by GDP (~US$2.2 trillion). Click on the headers to reorganize columns. The methodology of calculating GDP may differ between the studies and are widely based on projections and sometimes approximate estimations, notably for cities that are not within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Cities may be defined as the cities proper, the extent of their urban area, or their metropolitan regions. The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities may be classified using the same criteria. This is a list of cities in the world by gross domestic product ( GDP). GDP of the ten largest metropolitan economies in the OECD, 2001–2018