CITY POPULATION RANKINGS!! !! !! !! !! !! !

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I grew up in #19. I recently moved from #7 to #44, and one of my motivations was to be in a bigger city! Crazy, right? No, because #44 is right next to #14. You just have to pay $4 to cross a bridge. It's also next to #252, but you don't have to cross a bridge to get there. And #7 isn't right next to anything, but if you don't mind sitting in the car for an hour or two, you can get to #16. I have also lived in #23 and #170.

When I lived in #7, I heard a lot of people refer to that ranking. I thought, "They must be referring to its geographical size. The population can't possibly be that high compared to other US cities." But I was wrong!

Based on the US cities listed, I would say that those population sizes refer to the metropolitan areas so as to include people who live very close to the city but not within the actual city limits.

I've seen these figures before and it also struck me how wrong the German ones are !
Berlin looks accurate enough but as far as I know Frankfurt,Essen and Dusseldorf should
all be around 700,000 and Koln about 1 million.Munich is larger than these 4 and isn't even on the list.As for Katowice in Poland being over 3 million and the Polish capital Warsaw isn't included ?
If the list is based on contrived 'metropolitan areas' there are a few cities in the UK
that should be on it such as Birmingham,Manchester and Glasgow.

JakeWilson also raised an interesting point about sports teams.I think it's a natural thing
for people to imagine the comparative size of cities depending on whether they have
prominent sports teams and they get a surprise when they see the actual population listed.

My town is so small that it isn't on the list at all! It probably ranks #1,000,000 in the US or something like that. I live in the middle of nowhere where there ain't no techno! More cows than humans, in fact if we looked at the cow population only, it would be number 1 on the list!!

I'm not sure how accurate that really is. I live near Columbus, and there are a heck of a lot more people in Cincinnati and Cleveland than Columbus, or at least that's what I've always been taught. I've been to all three cities as well, and Columbus is definitely the smallest one.

Well, that's depressing. I went there summer before last (my mother was born and grew up there), and it's a bad place to be. It averages something like two murders a week or so, and it's the absolute pits for housing and neighbors and whatnot. Poverty at its worst.

closest city on the list to where i live is... #233 Allentown

I live in the boondocks though, and am closer to wilkes barre/scranton than allentown, but they arent on the list

There are only 7,000 people in my town (technically it's a village within the Town of Mt Pleasant because New York is weird), so it is definitely not on that list. It's funny how once you get outside NYC (I am about 20 miles away), the whole county is fractured into these tiny villages and hamlets, with the exception of a few larger cities. You can drive across my town in a few minutes (it's less than 2 square miles), and be in another before you can blink.

probably the Metro area, not the city in general. OP's list seems to be the sctual city population, not metro area.

also lol @ NAperville, Aurora and Elgin. All Chicago Suburbs (well Aurora is old as hell but now a Chicago suburb due to being in the metro area...way west)

What is the saying here again: ahh yes, "REPRESENTIN DA SOUTH SIDE OF THE CHI!!"

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I don't think this takes metro area into consideration.

There is no way the San Antonio metro area is bigger than the Dallas metro area.

2 Murders per week isn't too bad for that size Anyway, Camden is where the hood at.

wow number 65? craaaazyyyy.

bump as I'm interested in discussing this as it has interested me again from another forum.

Also if a mod would like to, please move this to a more 'correct' forum...

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newer stuff places it closer to ~20 million

18,815,988 (2007 est.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

1 New York--Northern New Jersey--Long Island, NY--NJ--CT--PA CMSA 21,199,865
http://www.census.gov/population/www/ce ... /tab03.txt
^^^^
that's the 2000 census

2 New York United States 21,362,000
http://www.demographia.com/db-world-metro2000.htm


New York New York USA 21,900,000 incl. Newark, Paterson
http://www.citypopulation.de/World.html

New York Metro Area varies from third to fifth depending on what sources you use, censuses reflecting whether they include Newark or other towns in the Metro Area, whether they include part of Pennsylvania in there (one Pennsylvania county is part of the metro area in some cases), etc.

There's other stuff like 'Urban agglomerations' instead of Metro Areas (Urban Agglomerations are more of groups of smaller cities that fuse together-arguably the Ruhr in Germany is one-same for the Megalopolis stretching from Boston to Washington D.C. that influences lists (the San Francisco metro area is included as ranked on some of those lists-though it's a group of cities, towns, etc with no central settlement that dominates it-or is larger by a decent portion, unlike in Chicago and New York

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I feel happy I can do this and no one would care-on TOTSE some people bitched at me and I got into a niiice flamewar; kicked their ass-fuckers gave up XD

I'm not a mod-but perhaps this might belong better under "stats" section ?


Am from small "city" (6,000 pop.).

My family moved (when I was teenager) to large city (Albany NY)-that didn't make the list, but if one took into account "tri-city" area in total, it would far exceed 100,000. It was fun & exciting-for a while-as a very different environment from that in which I was raised.

Went to college in huge city (#94) on the (USA) list. Then, moved back to Albany, but couldn't handle the "rough & tumble" city life.

So, a dozen years ago, moved to small "town" (12,000 pop.).


I find a pleasing sort of symmetry to my changes of residence across my life thus far: from small place, to a few big places, then back again to a small place.

Wow... we only have about 27,000 people in our whole county (includes three cities)

i don't think so






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208,000 people is a lot? hmm