Can you name the 60 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States?

Rank	City	Population
1		19,006,798
2		12,872,808
3		9,569,624
4		6,300,006
5		5,838,471
6		5,728,143
7		5,414,772
8		5,376,285
9		5,358,130
10		4,522,858
11		4,425,110
12		4,281,899
13		4,274,531
14		4,115,871
15		3,344,813
16		3,229,878
17		3,001,072
18		2,816,710
19		2,733,761
20		2,667,117
21		2,506,626
22		2,351,192
23		2,207,462
24		2,155,137
25		2,109,832
26		2,088,291
27		2,054,574
28		2,031,445
29		2,002,047
30		1,865,746

Rank	City	Population
31		1,819,198
32		1,773,120
33		1,715,459
34		1,701,799
35		1,658,292
36		1,652,602
37		1,596,611
38		1,550,733
39		1,549,308
40		1,313,228
41		1,285,732
42		1,244,696
43		1,225,626
44		1,206,142
45		1,190,512
46		1,134,029
47		1,124,309
48		1,117,608
49		1,115,692
50		1,088,765
51		1,034,090
52		1,012,018
53		916,079
54		909,153
55		905,034
56		895,030
57		853,919
58		846,101
59		845,913
60		837,925
	837,925

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60 Most Populous US Metros Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: October 11th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 6,495

Tags: Population Quizzes, State Quizzes, City Quizzes, rank, united, United States, populous, area, retro, metropolitan, statistical

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	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Oct 10th, 2009 at 19:30 GMT	6 points
	Just to be clear, the metro areas are listed by core city, with the states they're located in in parentheses. If you liked this quiz, try my other geography quizzes by clicking on my name and then "Contributed Games." Thanks!

	Gordo:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 06:14 GMT	7 points
	You should mention in the title that this is using MSA (which cuts in half some urbanized areas [census UA definition] like San Jose and San Francisco, and tosses in some massive mostly uninhabited areas due to it including entire counties).

	AtomicIce:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 07:50 GMT	5 points
	Sporclevision stikes again-- the metro I live in and one from a state I used to live in were both among the last 5 I guessed.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 16:06 GMT	5 points
	@Gordo, I didn't feel the need to put that in the title because, going by established Sporcle convention, this is the same data used in the standard Largest US Metros quiz.

	montecarlo:	Oct 11th, 2009 at 17:40 GMT	6 points
	congrats to salt lake city for finally becoming an official answer to a sporcle quiz that doesnt involve the olympics.

	RyanUR:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 01:22 GMT	11 points
	For Virginia Beach, you should also accept Norfolk. It's really the biggest true city in the area. Virginia Beach is just a bunch of strip malls and housing developments. It's only a city on paper.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 02:15 GMT	5 points
	Noted. Anyone else with suggestions for other cities in these metro areas to accept, please leave a comment.

	Geo_Crazy:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 04:15 GMT	0 points
	A very fun quiz-the top 30 are easy, making it 60 makes you think. As with other US metro quizzes: 1. San Francisco should be combined with San Jose as "Bay Area" 2. Riverside is the same metro area as Los Angeles area 3. Are DC and Baltimore seperate metro areas? 4. the greater Salt Lake area has near 2 million people

	Geo_Crazy:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 04:16 GMT	7 points
	Strange how tiny tiny Connecticut has 3 metro areas in the top 60.

	desafinado440:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 04:44 GMT	4 points
	New York City should really be NY-NJ-CT; not sure how many Pennsylvania residents commute to New York, but a whole lot of people do from Connecticut

	jaspa:	Oct 12th, 2009 at 19:51 GMT	6 points
	@Geo_Crazy: I'm almost positive this quiz was used through the Metropolitan Statistical Areas defined by the US Census. Any changes would result in a subjective source. Gordo's right, MSA should really be specified.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Oct 13th, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	3 points
	I added clarification about this using MSAs, it was causing more confusion than I thought it would! Thanks for the plays and suggestions, everyone.

	eddddedddd:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 03:36 GMT	1 point
	generally the New York Metropolitan Area is considered NY, NJ and CT.... not PA

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Oct 31st, 2009 at 15:01 GMT	4 points
	This source is using a slightly different definition than that, so I can't just add CT because that's what most of us would think of. Incidentally, the exclusion of Connecticut from the New York area could explain why so many Connecticut cities are on here.

	WorldWhiz:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 18:19 GMT	5 points
	San Juan, Puerto Rico should be a bonus...it is definitely in this list even if it isn't in a US state.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 00:53 GMT	4 points
	That's a good idea, bonus added.

	DPA727:	Nov 20th, 2009 at 03:19 GMT	-1 points
	is Worcester, MA included in Boston's metro area because if not, it is definitely larger than all of the Connecticuts and possibly Providence.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Nov 22nd, 2009 at 18:20 GMT	4 points
	Actually, according to this list Worcester's is only 783,806.

	Lindsay:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 14:39 GMT	6 points
	Dirty D - The actual city of Worcester is larger than any city in Connecticut & Providence, but it's metro area is not

	Sjoerd:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 18:58 GMT	3 points
	I got the entire top-50, but only four of the remaining 10. Me like this quiz

	TheBigE1980:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 03:19 GMT	2 points
	Darn you, Rochester and Albany! 58/60, plus San Juan. I liked this one a lot.

	kimo:	Apr 12th, 2010 at 19:13 GMT	0 points
	what about kyrgyzstan?

	LonghornFan:	Apr 22nd, 2010 at 22:38 GMT	1 point
	Got all 60...I had to scramble at the end though because I had forgotten about the state of Florida

	troncy:	May 3rd, 2010 at 16:04 GMT	7 points
	I enjoy quizzes like this, because for some reason, I'm a population junkie. lol Most people on here use the standard MSA statistics for their quizzes. Those stats are fine, but are generally confusing because of all the different categories the US Census bureau has created to define areas. If you look at the NYC area, it was first started as NY/NJ and later adding on CT. It wasn't until the last 10 years or so that PA was included. Anyone reading that Wiki source may have to reread it several times to understand what they are saying. :) The Census Bureau uses different factors when figuring out a statistical area. One of them is the number of people commuting from one area to the main city. For example, Trenton, NJ. Why is that in the NYC metro and not in with Philadelphia? Part of it is also county lines. It's much easier to use county lines than it is township, boroughs, or city lines. Look at San Bernardino county in CA's LA area. Needles, which sits on the Colorado River across from AZ and just south of NV, is still considered part of the LA area because it's in SB county. LA is 256 miles from Needles and Las Vegas is 110...which one would you travel to? But just because a corner of SB county is within the LA metro area, the entire county is included in the population. Ok...I don't know where I was going with this, but the US Census bureau needs a kick in the ass for contributing to the confusion in Sporcle quizzes! :) lol

	chriskotx:	Jul 26th, 2010 at 20:25 GMT	2 points
	I only missed Riverside. Sure dont think of that place being 4 million people.

	adamnvillani:	Dec 29th, 2010 at 07:04 GMT	2 points
	Technically Needles is only in the L.A. Combined Statistical Area (CSA), which includes the LA-Long Beach-Santa Ana MSA, the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario MSA, and the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA. The big areas are only because the counties in the West are much bigger than the ones in the East. When the counties were split up in the late 1800s, the desert parts of Riverside and San Bernardino Counties were even less populated than they are now, so they just attached them to the populated parts. So because the actual urban parts of those counties are adjacent to the urban parts of L.A. and Orange Counties, they get combined into the CSAs, and the desert parts (some of which are fairly well-populated, others much less so) come along for the ride because they're part of the same counties.

	adamnvillani:	Dec 29th, 2010 at 07:05 GMT	3 points
	So basically it's all because the Census Bureau doesn't split up counties when they're defining MSAs.

	Minutemen429:	Jul 10th, 2011 at 03:03 GMT	1 point
	Wocester's metro is just Worcester County. If you go 3 towns east of Worcester you're in Bostons metro.