Can you name the most populous cities in the northern United States (above the parallel 36*30' north?)?

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Rank	City	Population
1		8,363,710
3		2,853,114
6		1,447,395
10		948,279
11		912,062
12		808,976
14		798,382
16		754,885
20		636,919
22		609,023
23		604,477
24		598,541
25		598,541
27		591,833
29		557,706

Rank	City	Population
30		557,224
35		476,050
36		463,794
39		451,572
40		438,646
41		433,748
42		433,746
44		404,155
47		382,605
48		380,307
51		366,046
52		354,361
56		333,336
58		319,057
60		310,037
62	310,037

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Biggest Northern US Cities Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: January 2nd, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 3,994

Tags: Population Quizzes, State Quizzes, City Quizzes, rank, united, United States, populous, biggest, north, above, northern, parallel, 36 30

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	shanekelby:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 06:32 GMT	5 points
	Virginia beach is at 36'50"

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 06:56 GMT	-2 points
	You're right, a bit of a slip-up on my part. Toledo has been added to this quiz and VB has been moved to the Southern one.

	redsimba88:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 08:34 GMT	8 points
	Since VB is at 36°50', wouldn't that make it north of the 36°30' line?

	adamnvillani:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 08:55 GMT	4 points
	If you're going to move VB to the South, then you need to redefine the quiz. Maybe define the South as below 3630' or* in the Confederacy. North is everything north of that line that wasn't in the Confederacy.

	swellwrench:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 09:48 GMT	4 points
	Yeah, this is kind of a silly definition of "northern." I'd move it up a ways, and knock out places like Washington, Baltimore, and Louisville which no one would really think of as "northern"

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 15:12 GMT	10 points
	Ok, about the Virginia Beach thing... all I can say is that it was very early in the morning. Oops. And in defense of the 36*30', the line has been arbitrarily used to divide the country for a long time, and the distribution of cities north and south of it is surprisingly equal. You're right, some of what is considered the south is above the line, but when I made these quizzes I was thinking of a strictly geographic, non-cultural sense of north and south that would require a bit more thought than just what is normally considered southern.

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	aregister11:	Jan 2nd, 2010 at 18:37 GMT	8 points
	I can't believe San Jose has more people than Detroit now.

pita:

Jan 3rd, 2010 at 00:23 GMT

-2 points

The problem with picking an arbitrary geographic line, is that I doubt too many people can tell you where the 36*30' line is (until reading the VB comments).

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jan 3rd, 2010 at 01:19 GMT	3 points
	Do you think it would help if I added some kind of short descriptor like "southern border of Missouri"?

	elnok:	Jan 4th, 2010 at 20:27 GMT	-4 points
	36-30 has been arbitrarily used to divide the country for a long time? By whom? There are a lot of arbitrary lines in the US, but that's one with which I'm pretty unfamiliar. I think a better option on this one would be to take actual northern cities (Washington is usually considered the "middle," at least on the east coast), and expand the selection from the top 60. It'd be a much more challenging quiz, and a whole lot less arbitrary. (I don't care what line you're using... VA Beach, Omaha and DC are not northern cities!) Maybe a "north of DC" quiz, or just a northern tier quiz?

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jan 25th, 2010 at 23:32 GMT	5 points
	This parallel forms the Missouri Compromise line, used to divide the country into slave and free states before the civil war. It made sense to start there when I was looking for a consistent line to divide the country in two. When I made this I was going for just "Name all the cities north of this line!", but it seems that people attribute too much meaning to the North/South terminology for the majority to accept that. Oh well, it was a learning experience as a quizmaker.

	WCRoentgen:	Feb 4th, 2010 at 09:30 GMT	1 point
	Maybe use the Mason-Dixon line. Of course that's the border between PA and MD, was surveyed over 230 years ago, is well-known and became, in part, the border between free and slave states (1781). Oh, it's at 39*43' N.

	deej:	Mar 22nd, 2010 at 22:55 GMT	0 points
	Good idea for a quiz, but I agree an arbitrary line of latitude is probably too hard - maybe define north as a city that is in a state that either borders canada/great lakes itself, or borders a state which borders canada?

	jefrunner:	Jun 19th, 2010 at 03:05 GMT	4 points
	I think having an arbitrary line of historical significance is a perfectly good reason for doing things! Regardless of whether you go with Mason-Dixon or Missouri Compromise, it's pretty useless for reference by the time you get to the west unless you really know your coordinates well. I had fun going from north to south, figuring out where to stop and then trying to fill in. Still blew a bunch of them, but I think it's a great way of doing things.

	GreatScott:	Jan 13th, 2011 at 21:19 GMT	4 points
	I would entitle the quiz "Can you name the cities about parallel 3630'" Part of the fun is trying to figure out how far south you have to go. Who cares why you picked that particular parallel- it coulda been 3230', or 37*, it'd still be just as fun.

	NationalHero:	Mar 15th, 2011 at 19:09 GMT	2 points
	wow aurora has more people than buffalo..