| It'd really help if you put up the information source. Ranking cities in Alaska by population is an extremely convoluted process. "College" is not a city at all, but a part of Fairbanks that is a "census-designated place." (Fairbanks is much larger than Juneau.) "Knik-Fairview" is another CDP that is really a part of the Anchorage area, though under the jurisdiction of the Mat-Su Borough. You see, these things aren't actually cities, having no city organization, no city government, and no desire, as far as I know, to actually call themselves cities. But unfortunately this is how the statistics people work.
Another point (and a pet-peeve of mine) is that Alaska city-stats become even more convoluted when you consider the size of a "city." There is only one reason Sitka ranks higher here than Ketchikan: Ketchikan actually has city limits. The "city" of Sitka being considered here is the entire Sitka Borough, a huge huge huge area that is no way a city by any realistic definition.
Anyway, none of this is your fault, of course, but they're inconsistencies that annoy me. |