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TIL Atlanta, GA has fewer people than Jacksonville, FL. The Atlanta metropolitan area has a lot more people.
by blueblisters 6y ago
TIL Atlanta, GA has fewer people than Jacksonville, FL. The Atlanta metropolitan area has a lot more people.
- l72 6y agoThis is the problem with how we define cities. Jacksonville is technically the largest city in all of Florida too, but that is because it annexed almost all of its suburbs, so the whole "metro" area is just on city, which is quite different then most other American cities.
- js2 6y agoRight. Havana is more populous than Miami because it includes 15 municipalities, covering 728 km2. Miami is just Miami proper, which is 145 km2. But the Miami urban area is 2900 km2, and has 5.5M people which would be larger than Havana (2.1M people). Miami is much denser than Havana (4,299.7/km2 vs 2,892.0/km2). But that's besides the point I guess. Every map maker makes arbitrary choices. And it made me curious why some cities and not others.
- schnable 6y agoThis is also why Phoenix appears as one of the US's largest cities, while its metro area is significantly smaller than other cities that have a smaller population.
- AshleyGrant 6y agoJacksonville is the largest city by land area in the continental United States, not just Florida. https://web.archive.org/web/20021017211112/http://www.census.gov/statab/ccdb/cit1010r.txt https://web.archive.org/web/20021017211112/http://www.census...
- js2 6y agoBut it's very sparsely populated, not even in the top 100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_density https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
- wing-_-nuts 6y agoYeah I looked at the map and was dumbfounded. Jacksonville? It's not even half the size of the Atlanta metro area population!
- LargeWu 6y agoWinnipeg (pop. ~780K) is the largest municipality in the same box as the Minneapolis metro area (pop. ~3.2M).
- WillPostForFood 6y agoSimilar observation with Denver, which is in the same quad as Juarez. City of Denver population is ~620k, but the metro area is ~3 million.