Figuring out the size of US cities is actually not that simple, due to the sprawl. Official city populations are worthless, since city limits almost never correspond to the actual limits of the urban area. US Census numbers are often worthless because they are based on counties rather than urban area. You have to combine several methods to get a reasonable estimate. Here is a reasonable estimate for what the biggest urban areas actually are:>1. New York City region (New York, New Jersey, Connecticut) - 22 million>2. Los Angeles region (California) - 17 million>3. Washington DC - Baltimore region (DC, Virginia, Maryland) - 10 million>4. Chicago region (Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin) - 9.9 million>5. San Francisco - San Jose Bay Area (California) - 9 million>6. Dallas-Ft. Worth region (Texas) - 8.5 million>7. Boston-Providence region (Massachusetts and Rhode Island) - 8.4 million>8. Houston region (Texas) - 8 million>9. Philadelphia-Trenton region (Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland) - 7.4 million>10. Atlanta region (Georgia) - 7 million>11. Miami region (Florida) - 7 million>12. Detroit-Ann Arbor region (Michigan) - 5.4 million>13. Phoenix region (Arizona) - 5 million>14. Seattle-Tacoma region (Washington) - 4.8 million>15. Central Florida (Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona) - 4.5 million>16. Minneapolis-St. Paul region (Minnesota) - 4 million>17. Denver-Boulder region (Colorado) - 3.5 million>18. Cleveland-Akron region (Ohio) - 3.5 million>19. Charlotte region (North Carolina and South Carolina) - 3.3 million>20. San Diego region (California) - 3.2 million>21. Portland-Vancouver-Salem region (Oregon and Washington) - 3 million>22. Tampa Bay region (Florida) - 3 million>23. St. Louis region (Missouri and Illinois) - 2.8 million>24. The Wasatch Front (Salt Lake City-Provo region, Utah) - 2.8 million>25. San Antonio region (Texas) - 2.8 million
>>222928143Judging by official urban boundaries skews in favor of cities with massive borders (eg, everything in Texas, or places that did city/county mergers). It also skews against older cities and ones with no physical space to expand, like SF.While I generally agree with judging by CSA you still get oddities like Washington/Baltimore being grouped together when they're extremely different cities culturally.
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>>222928309DC and Baltimore sprawled together over time. There is no way to draw a line between them and declare a coherent boundary. The area from DC to Baltimore is endless low-rise sprawl, apartment buildings, strip malls, housing developments, stroads, etc. It just never ends.
>>222928143That's true in most of the world. Our Klang Valley conurbation spans 3 states.
>>222928143that looks like hell
>>222929244The LA region is impressive because of the vastness of its sprawl. It just spreads on and on in many different directions.
>>222929867You're going to have a hard time planning where the HST line will go through. Time to buy some tunnel boring machines and hire several geologists?
