Can you name the US cities that make up more than 30% of their Metropolitan Statistical Area (out of the top 50 MSAs)?

created by Unidentifiedkiwi

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Source: census.gov (cities) & Wikipedia (metros)
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% of metro	City	City Pop. / Metro Pop.
67%		1,351,305 / 2,031,445
62%		807,815 / 1,313,228
52%		948,279 / 1,819,198
52%		669,651 / 1,285,732
47%		798,382 / 1,715,459
46%		551,789 / 1,206,142
46%		757,688 / 1,652,602
45%		557,224 / 1,244,696
44%		8,363,710 / 19,006,798

% of metro	City	City Pop. / Metro Pop.
43%		754,885 / 1,773,120
42%		1,279,329 / 3,027,497
40%		687,456 / 1,701,799
39%		604,477 / 1,549,308
39%		2,242,193 / 5,728,143
38%		596,462 / 1,550,733
37%		1,567,924 / 4,281,899
36%		392,552 / 1,088,765

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Cities vs. Metros 2 Quiz

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Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: February 7th, 2010
Category: Geography
Plays: 2,685

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

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	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Feb 6th, 2010 at 00:07 GMT	3 points
	If you're curious about the cities that make up the smallest % of their MSAs, there's a quiz for that too: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Unidentifiedkiwi/cities_vs_metros

	cuendillar:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 11:41 GMT	2 points
	So, basically, these are the cities that tend to annex their suburbs, rather than let them grow up around themselves.

	szittrower:	Mar 9th, 2010 at 20:51 GMT	-2 points
	As far as I'm know San Jose is part of the San Francisco Bay Area Metropolis which has far more than 2 million people. Can someone cite a source on this. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay_Area)

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	ChipTaco:	Mar 23rd, 2010 at 17:17 GMT	9 points
	@billytobay & szittrower - unfortunately neither of you work for the US OMB that defines MSA's.

	TheBigE1980:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 03:08 GMT	2 points
	How in the WORLD does the Census Bureau consider San Jose and San Francisco to be part of separate metro areas?

	Apollo846:	Mar 31st, 2010 at 06:26 GMT	1 point
	It would be nice if the 3rd column wasn't hidden until you guessed the answer and then make the time shorter...

	thedpr:	Dec 24th, 2010 at 13:17 GMT	1 point
	There's way too much time even if the column is hidden - one just has to run through the top 50 metro areas.

	Berubium:	Feb 3rd, 2011 at 00:40 GMT	1 point
	Very interesting quiz... I figured I'd ignore all the twin cities, until about 3 seconds left, I tried Raleigh for the heck of it. I would have thought Chicago proper to have a more significant population, but then again, the metro area is massive.

	SOAR21:	May 25th, 2011 at 07:30 GMT	1 point
	While I know they are officially considered separate metro areas...the OMB obviously doesn't live here. Without exaggeration, San Jose is basically one HUGE suburb for San Francisco. There are about 30 highrises in downtown San Jose, and none really stand out. It's a drab cityline but a beautiful area with great people. Definitely not urban in any sense of the world. Plus, taking San Francisco, Oakland, and Fremont but leaving out San Jose is almost like taking 3/4 of a geographic rhombus and leaving out the bottom corner.