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The Metroplex overlooks mostly prairie land with a few rolling hills dotted by man-made lakes cut by streams, creeks and rivers surrounded by forest land. The Metroplex is situated in the Texas blackland prairies region named for the fertile black soil suitable for growing cotton and other crops especially the rural areas of Collin, Dallas, Ellis, Hunt, Kaufman, and Rockwall counties. Many areas of Denton, Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and Wise counties are located in the Fort Worth Prairie region of North Texas which has a different soil type from that of the Texas blackland prairie making it less fertile and more rocky. Consequently, most of the rural land on the Fort Worth Prairie is used as ranch land. A large onshore natural gas field, the Barnett Shale, lies underneath this area causing many to construct natural gas wells on their land especially in Denton, Tarrant and Wise counties. While new development is replacing crop fields, it is still common to see crop fields surrounded by developed residential or commercial land. South of Dallas and Fort Worth is a line of rugged hills that goes north to south about 15 miles (24 km) that looks similar to the Texas Hill Country 200 miles (320 km) to the south.

The cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are the anchor cities of the Metroplex. Dallas and its suburbs have one of the highest concentrations of corporate headquarters in the United States. As such, one of the largest industries in the Metroplex is conducting business. The Metroplex also contains the largest Information Technology industry base in the state (often referred to as Silicon Prairie), owing to the large number of corporate IT projects and the presence of numerous electronics, computing and telecom firms such as Texas Instruments, Electronic Data Systems, Perot Systems, i2, AT, and Verizon in and around Dallas. On the other end of the business spectrum, and on the other side of the Metroplex, the Texas farming and ranching industry is based in Fort Worth. According to the Dallas Business Journal's 2006 Book of Lists, American Airlines is the largest employer in the Metroplex. Several major defense manufacturers, including Lockheed Martin, Bell Helicopter Textron, and Raytheon, maintain significant operations in the Metroplex. ExxonMobil, the #2 corporation on the Fortune 500 listings, is headquartered in Irving, Texas.