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Roads in America cross referenced with metropolitan statistical area on Wikipedia

We take the metropolitan statistical area article on Wikipedia, find the entries that belong to it, and look for roads whose name is the same as one of those entries. A match means the street name equals an entry's Wikipedia title, its Wikidata label, or one of its aliases. It says nothing about why a road has its name.

Matched street names 16

Each street name below equals the entry shown, once the road type (St, Rd, Ct) is ignored.

Left out 8

These names were found and then set aside. Nothing on the story page counts them.

NameEntryWhyRoads
(the whole entry)DFWAcronym alias, which never matches
(the whole entry)DMVAcronym alias, which never matches
GOLD COASTGold CoastCarried by more than 100 roads nationally104
GOLDEN TRIANGLEGolden TriangleCarried by more than 100 roads nationally127
HAPPY VALLEYHappy ValleyCarried by more than 100 roads nationally845
(the whole entry)NWAAcronym alias, which never matches
(the whole entry)SEPAAcronym alias, which never matches
SHOALSShoalsCarried by more than 100 roads nationally113

Every Wikipedia entry tried 2454

Including the entries that matched no road at all.