# Local news term for area **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 25, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339 "2024-03-25T14:59:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/41 "2024-03-26T00:01:27Z")
> [@WildaBeast](#): > > the Sierras Breathless weathercritters refer to “the high country” in their reports, which means most of us live in “the low country”, altho no one uses that. I watch local news and have not heard of Superior California around here, either. Maybe that’s from a station in Redding or Chico. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/42 "2024-03-26T00:26:44Z")
> [@LurkMeister](#): > > the Triangle Not exactly local news, but you can tell a company didn’t do their research when their ad refers to “the Raleigh Metro area.” ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/43 "2024-03-26T00:43:48Z")
In Cleveland, it’s usually “Northeast Ohio”. Though in actual use, that term is almost always just Cuyahoga County (Cleveland and most of its suburbs). It’s never, like, Ashtabula, or Akron. There’s also the Western Reserve, though nowadays that mostly only survives in the Western Reserve Historical Society and Case Western Reserve University. > [@Loach](#): > > The Tri-State Area. I know there are many but the real one is New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. I remember once on this board, someone referred to “the Tri-State Area”, and then got all indignant when folks didn’t know where he meant. The only thing that’s special about the New York one is that only New Yorkers would assume that theirs is special. ---
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/44 "2024-03-26T00:48:30Z")
“The Valley” or “The Valley of the Sun” for the greater Phoenix metro area. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/45 "2024-03-26T02:35:04Z")
Yeah, I’ve lived here for about 25 years, and it never gets any better. I still think it sounds super strange. But I agree- it’s “the Metroplex” or “DFW Metroplex” or only occasionally “DFW area”. “North Texas” gets a lot of mileage if they’re talking about the broader area outside of the urban area- that term would encompass places like Mineral Wells, Corsicana, Sherman, Greenville, Waxahachie, Hillsboro, etc… ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/46 "2024-03-26T02:51:08Z")
the LA news uses the official names “the antelope valley” or the "high desert " normally ---
**Author:** ![Kimble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kimble/32/19185_2.png) [@Kimble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimble)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/47 "2024-03-26T03:07:09Z")
In Tennessee, in increasing order of controversy: - Memphis: the Mid-South - Tri-Cities: Upper East Tennessee - Nashville: just Middle Tennessee? A large chunk of Middle Tennessee (pretty much everything important except Clarksville) is now part of the Nashville MSA; “the 615” seems to just be Nashville proper in usage, even though it includes the 12 surrounding counties - Chattanooga: North Atlanta suburbs 😛 ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/48 "2024-03-26T03:38:22Z")
I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned I live in the Ozarks, and that is the term they tend to use–but it extends a bit further than the actual mountains. They will also just use southern Missouri and northern Arkansas if they want to separate the two. Or, at least, that’s what they did back when I still actually watched local news. ---
**Author:** ![doc481](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@doc481](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doc481)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/49 "2024-03-26T03:47:53Z")
Minneapolis/St Paul area is referred to as simply, “The Cities” ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/50 "2024-03-26T04:05:52Z")
> [@FinsToTheLeft](#): > > The GTA, Greater Toronto Area. If they want to include areas slightly farther afield it could be referred to as the GTHA which adds Hamilton or the Golden Horseshoe I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone mention the GTHA on the news; maybe they use it in Hamilton. There’s also Peel Region and York Region which refer to areas (north)west and (north)east of Toronto (respectively). ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/51 "2024-03-26T04:15:35Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Or Puget Sound Region Which can be further divided into South Sound or North Sound depending on where you are relative to Seattle. Unless you’re on the Olympic peninsula. We don’t speak of those folk. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/52 "2024-03-26T15:26:53Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Unless you’re on the Olympic peninsula. We don’t speak of those folk. I’m even more forgotten, on the Kitsap peninsula. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/53 "2024-03-26T16:25:46Z")
I live in either the “Southern Tier” or the “Finger Lakes.”. It seems to depend on if it’s real news (ST) or a feel good story. ---
**Author:** ![sb1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@sb1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sb1953)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/54 "2024-03-26T16:32:57Z")
All Cincinnati stations refer to “The Tri State” ( Oh. ky, Indiana) . DRiving north to relatives in “Badgerland” (Wisconsin) I am used to hearing about “Chicagoland” as well as “Quad Cities” ---
**Author:** ![sb1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@sb1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sb1953)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/55 "2024-03-26T16:36:55Z")
YES! We lived in Anoka for most of 1974 and they said that even then. I read somewhere that 50% of all Minnesotans live in the Twin Cities. Love the Twin Cities, even though the below -zero got REALLY old . All i have to do is re-watch “Grumpy Old men” and it all comes flooding back:… The snow the black cinders they dropped on the packed-snow roadways, the visqueen cocoons built around all outdoor construction projects in winter. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/56 "2024-03-26T17:20:03Z")
> [@sb1953](#): > > All Cincinnati stations refer to “The Tri State” ( Oh. ky, Indiana) . DRiving north to relatives in “Badgerland” (Wisconsin) I am used to hearing about “Chicagoland” as well as “Quad Cities” Sure but there is only one _The_ Tri-State Area. I don’t know if there is a definitive answer to what was first known by that term but the area covered by the NYC local news is certainly the biggest in population. Philly news also refers to the Tri-State area which in that case covers Eastern Pennsylvania, South Jersey and Northern Delaware. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/57 "2024-03-26T17:33:41Z")
I live in the Triangle now, but I used to live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, basically composed of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, and Portsmouth, though there are some outlying areas like Suffolk, Hampton and Newport News that are often included. It’s part of the larger Tidewater area, which covers the coastal plain of Virginia, so it sometimes just gets called Tidewater too. ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/58 "2024-03-27T12:20:53Z")
DFW is usually referred to as “The Metroplex.” A newscaster using the term is referring to Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, and Denton. Not sure there’s a consensus on whether it includes outlying exurbs and small burgs though. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/59 "2024-03-27T17:14:10Z")
Oddly, having grown up with the term “Chicagoland,” it’s never sounded weird to me in the least. I get that some people think it sounds like an amusement park or something, but try as I might, I can’t hear it, it’s so ingrained. (And our “tri-state” area is Wisconsin, Illinois, and Indiana, as reflected in “The Tri-State Tollway.”) ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2024, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339/60 "2024-03-27T22:15:31Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > There’s also Peel Region and York Region But those are their actual names, technically the [Regional Municipality of Peel](https://www.peelregion.ca/) and [Regional Municipality of York](https://www.york.ca/) rather than some other descriptor. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/local-news-term-for-area/999339.md?page=2)