Can you name the States by number of metro areas over 100,000? by Roxelana

Can you name the States by number of metro areas over 100,000?

created by Roxelana

Enter a state in the box below
Correctly named states will show up below
Click any empty Region/Number of 100,000+ Metros or State to answer for that location
Source: Wikipedia/Census 2010
The regions are Census defined. In the case of states with the same # of metro areas, they are listed alphabetically after region. Each metro is counted for the state it's principal city is in only.
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Region/Number of 100,000+ Metros	State	Largest Metro
West 26		Los Angeles 12,828,837
South 25		Dallas-Fort Worth 6,371,773
South 19		Miami-Ft. Lauderdale 5,564,635
Northeast 15		Philadelphia 5,965,343
Midwest 14		Detroit 4,296,250
South 14		Charlotte 1,758,038
South 12		Atlanta 5,268,860
Midwest 12		Cincinnati 2,130,151
Midwest 12		Milwaukee 1,555,908
South 11		Birmingham 1,128,047
Midwest 11		Indianapolis 1,756,241
Northeast 11		New York 18,897,109
South 10		Nashville 1,589,934
West 10		Seattle 3,439,809
South 9		Virginia Beach-Norfolk 1,671,683
Midwest 8		Chicago 9,461,105
South 8		New Orleans 1,167,764

Region/Number of 100,000+ Metros	State	Largest Metro
South 8		Columbia 767,598
West 7		Denver 2,543,482
Midwest 7		St. Louis 2,812,896
West 6		Phoenix 4,192,887
South 6		Little Rock 699,757
Midwest 6		Des Moines 569,633
South 5		Louisville 1,283,566
Northeast 5		Boston 4,552,402
South 5		Jackson 539,057
West 5		Portland 2,226,009
West 5		Salt Lake City 1,124,197
South 5		Charleston 304,284
Northeast 4		Hartford 1,212,381
Midwest 4		Wichita 623,061
South 4		Baltimore 2,710,489
Midwest 4		Minneapolis-St. Paul 3,279,833
West 4		Albuquerque 887,077

Region/Number of 100,000+ Metros	State	Largest Metro
West 4		Boise City 616,561
Northeast 3		Portland 514,098
Northeast 3		Trenton 366,513
South 3		Oklahoma City 1,252,987
West 2		Billings 158,050
Midwest 2		Omaha 865,350
West 2		Las Vegas 1,951,269
West 2		Fargo 208,777
West 2		Sioux Falls 228,261
West 1		Anchorage 380,821
South 1		Dover 162,310
West 1		Honolulu 953,207
Northeast 1		Manchester 400,721
Northeast 1		Providence 1,600,852
Northeast 1		Burlington 211,261
West 0		Cheyenne 91,738

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States by number of metro areas over 100,000 Quiz

by Roxelana

Created Jun 11, 2011 in Geography
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	ambition:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 04:28 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz. A couple things. 1) I don't really think of WV and MD as being "South". Although with the categories you have I'm not really sure if any of them would be better. Maybe something like "Atlantic" although that doesn't really work too well for WV either. 2) NJ threw me off. I didn't really understand your game note, and I see from the source that they counted most of the cities of NJ as part of other metros in other states. But I kept guessing it really early. So maybe make the game note a little clearer. 3) I assume you left WY off because it doesn't have any qualifying metro areas (not even close apparently), but it seems like you could have it on there just as "West 0". 4) Maybe have three columns instead of two to cut down on scrolling. Most of this is nitpicking though, good quiz and 4 globes.

	Handle_Buttface:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 10:15 GMT	3 points
	Good quiz. I don't understand why the US Census classifies Maryland & Delaware as the south. Both are part of and almost entirely in the Northeast Corridor. Historically they are border states & influenced by both the north & south but geographically are much closer to NYC, Philly etc. than to places like Georgia, Alabama and obviously Texas. And most government agencies consider MD, DC & DE the northeast anyway.

	rockhopperlad:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 16:47 GMT	2 points
	Very cool! I agree that the US Census groupings are confusing for some states. I looked up the Cheyenne metro in Wikipedia, which is all of Laramie County, with a population of about 91,000. Sort of close, I guess.

	Roxelana:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 17:50 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for the feedback guys. I added a third column for less scrolling, and I added Wyoming in. I'd like to change the game note to be more clear if I could but I actually took up almost the entire number of max characters with that one. As for the regions, I agree that MD and DE belong with the Northeast but I wanted to keep it "official" and stick with the same source all the way through.

	Roxelana:	Jun 11th, 2011 at 18:00 GMT	0 points
	If you guys like this one you can try out my other one for states with most city propers of over 100,000 too, same deal just different data. http://www.sporcle.com/games/Roxelana/sbnc100

	MMayes:	Jun 12th, 2011 at 02:47 GMT	1 point
	The only thing I can think of for MD and DE being in the "South" is that they're south of the Mason-Dixon line (MD-PA border). Most of WV is south of that, as well. I agree, however, that there just aren't any good geographical classifications for them except for "Eastern border states".