Can you name the US cities that make up less than 20% of their Metropolitan Statistical Area (out of the top 50 MSAs)?

created by Unidentifiedkiwi

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All percentages rounded to nearest whole number, and all cities are the core cities the MSAs are named after.
Source: census.gov (cities) and Wikipedia (metros)
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% of Metro	City	City Pop. / Metro Pop.
7%		295,357 / 4,115,871
8%		413,201 / 5,497,709
10%		537,958 / 5,376,285
10%		124,062 / 1,190,512
11%		230,519 / 2,054,574
11%		171,557 / 1,596,611
11%		591,833 / 5,358,130
12%		382,605 / 3,229,878
12%		340,882 / 2,733,761

% of Metro	City	City Pop. / Metro Pop.
13%		609,023 / 4,522,858
13%		310,037 / 2,351,192
13%		354,361 / 2,816,710
15%		333,336 / 2,155,137
16%		202,002 / 1,225,626
16%		181,698 / 1,115,692
18%		598,541 / 3,344,813
19%		808,976 / 4,274,531

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Cities vs. Metros (US) Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: February 1st, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 2,410

Tags: City Quizzes, area, pop, metro, retro, less, metropolitan, statistical, msa, top

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	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jan 31st, 2010 at 17:15 GMT	12 points
	Remember: there's a huge difference between using city limits and metropolitan areas!

	Converge:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 06:00 GMT	7 points
	Great quiz. Nominated.

	geowiz85:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 06:41 GMT	-2 points
	great quiz, maybe one minute less though

	Onno:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 07:36 GMT	1 point
	Interesting quiz as usual. I might have taken more than 50 MSAs myself, but it's fine this way too. I'll be waiting for the "more than" counterpart.

	WadeGarrett:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 15:00 GMT	3 points
	Excellent quiz -- 5 stars. Just curious as to why Dallas didn't make the list -- according to your sources, the population of Dallas proper is 1.2 million, while the Dallas-Fort Worth MSA is 6.3 million ... I think that comes out to about 19%. Maybe the numbers were closer than that, I don't know.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 18:47 GMT	1 point
	Dallas barely missed it, as it was just a little closer to 20% than 19%.

	oxburger:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 19:43 GMT	3 points
	excellent quiz

	trivial:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 21:24 GMT	1 point
	Fun quiz. I thought of Riverside right at the end.

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	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Feb 1st, 2010 at 22:53 GMT	2 points
	It does. Check the note, which specifies that core cities are being used.

	RyanUR:	Feb 3rd, 2010 at 16:39 GMT	2 points
	You should do this again, but for the opposite--cities that make up the highest percentage of their MSAs. Great quiz!

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Feb 24th, 2010 at 02:29 GMT	4 points
	I did make such a quiz: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Unidentifiedkiwi/cities_vs_metros2

	ChipTaco:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 17:11 GMT	0 points
	I'd drop a minute or so off of the time. Great quiz though

TheBigE1980:

Mar 24th, 2010 at 03:01 GMT

-2 points

I keep forgetting Riverside. How is it not part of Metro LA, while Washington and Baltimore are part of the same metro area? The Census Bureau needs to wake up.

% of Metro	City	City Pop. / Metro Pop.
7%		295,357 / 4,115,871
8%		413,201 / 5,497,709
10%		537,958 / 5,376,285
10%		124,062 / 1,190,512
11%		230,519 / 2,054,574
11%		171,557 / 1,596,611
11%		591,833 / 5,358,130
12%		382,605 / 3,229,878
12%		340,882 / 2,733,761

	BoomRShine:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 14:55 GMT	-2 points
	You seem to be missing a lot of cities. For example, Arlington, Texas is a core city of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA, and it would make this list. There are a lot of examples like this. Unless you mean "largest core city", but that isn't specified.

	Apollo846:	Dec 26th, 2010 at 06:18 GMT	1 point
	@BoomRShine: yes it is: "all cities are the core cities the MSAs are named after"

	DJ_Donkeypunch:	May 25th, 2011 at 17:57 GMT	4 points
	This looks like it is based on the 2009 Population Estimates Program. If you use the more recent 2010 Decennial Census, Detroit should make the list at about 17% of the MSA population.