North Central Colorado Urban Area#Extent

{{Short description|Metropolitan area of Colorado}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = North Central Colorado Urban Area

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| image_skyline = Downtown_denver.jpg

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| imagesize = 300px

| image_caption = Skyline of Downtown Denver

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| type14=shape|id14=Q127970|title14=Larimer County, CO|stroke-color14=#06A94D|stroke-width14=0.5|fill14=#06A94D|fill-opacity14=0.4

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| map_caption = Interactive map of the
North Central Colorado Urban Area

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{{leftlegend|#FF0000|City and County of Denver}}

{{leftlegend|#C39290|Denver–Aurora–Centennial, CO MSA}}

{{leftlegend|#FFFE00|Boulder, CO MSA}}

{{leftlegend|#0000FF|Greeley, CO MSA}}

{{leftlegend|#06A94D|Fort Collins, CO MSA}}

{{leftlegend|#D3B683|Other Counties in the Front Range corridor}}

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = File:Flag of United States.svg United States

| subdivision_type1 = States

| subdivision_name1 = File:Flag of Colorado.svg Colorado

| subdivision_type2 = Largest city

| subdivision_name2 =

 - Denver

| subdivision_type3 = Other principal cities

| subdivision_name3 = {{plainlist|

•  - Aurora
•  - Lakewood
•  - Thornton
•  - Arvada
•  - Westminster
•  - Centennial
•  - Highlands Ranch
•  - Castle Rock
•  - Broomfield
•  - Commerce City
•  - Boulder
•  - Greeley
•  - Longmont
•  - Fort Collins
•  - Loveland

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| population =

| timezone = MST

| utc_offset = −7

| timezone_DST = MDT

| utc_offset_DST = −6

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The North Central Colorado Urban Area comprises the four contiguous metropolitan statistical areas in the north central region of the State of Colorado: the Denver–Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Boulder Metropolitan Statistical Area, the Fort Collins-Loveland Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the Greeley Metropolitan Statistical Area. With the exception of southeastern Elbert County, southeastern Park County, and tiny portions of southern Douglas County, the entire North Central Colorado Urban Area is drained by the South Platte River and its tributaries. The North Central Colorado Urban Area is the central, and the most populous, of the three primary subregions of the Front Range Urban Corridor.

The North Central Colorado Urban Area had a population of 3,390,504 at the 2010 United States census, a 17.67% increase from the 2000 United States census.{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=U.S. Census website|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=May 11, 2011}} In 2010, 67.42% of Coloradans lived in the North Central Colorado Urban Area.