Can you name the 200 most populous Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States?

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Rank	City	Population
1		19,069,796
2		12,874,797
3		9,580,567
4		6,447,615
5		5,968,252
6		5,867,489
7		5,547,051
8		5,476,241
9		5,475,213
10		4,588,680
11		4,403,437
12		4,364,094
13		4,317,853
14		4,143,113
15		3,407,848
16		3,269,814
17		3,053,793
18		2,828,990
19		2,747,272
20		2,690,886
21		2,552,195
22		2,354,957
23		2,241,841
24		2,171,896
25		2,127,355
26		2,091,286
27		2,082,421
28		2,072,128
29		2,067,585
30		1,902,834
31		1,839,700
32		1,801,848
33		1,745,524
34		1,743,658
35		1,705,075
36		1,674,498
37		1,600,642
38		1,582,264
39		1,559,667
40		1,328,144
41		1,304,926
42		1,258,577
43		1,238,187
44		1,227,278
45		1,195,998
46		1,189,981
47		1,131,070
48		1,130,293
49		1,125,827
50		1,123,804
51		1,035,566
52		1,020,200
53		929,015
54		915,267
55		907,574
56		901,208
57		857,903
58		857,592
59		849,517
60		848,006
61		835,063
62		816,012
63		807,407
64		803,701
65		802,983
66		786,947
67		778,009

Rank	City	Population
68		751,296
69		744,730
70		741,152
71		714,765
72		699,935
73		699,247
74		698,903
75		688,126
76		685,488
77		677,094
78		674,860
79		672,220
80		659,191
81		646,084
82		639,617
83		626,227
84		612,683
85		606,376
86		586,908
87		583,403
88		570,025
89		562,963
90		562,906
91		555,551
92		549,454
93		541,569
94		540,866
95		539,154
96		536,919
97		536,357
98		524,303
99		516,826
100		510,385
101		507,766
102		501,228
103		495,890
104		484,921
105		472,102
106		470,849
107		468,684
108		464,623
109		455,102
110		453,603
111		430,900
112		429,668
113		428,937
114		424,043
115		419,261
116		416,095
117		414,315
118		412,672
119		411,721
120		410,370
121		408,005
122		407,234
123		407,125
124		407,057
125		406,316
126		406,296
127		405,906
128		396,371
129		396,103
130		391,516
131		379,231
132		379,066
133		378,477
134		375,865

Rank	City	Population
135		374,553
136		366,401
137		366,222
138		365,364
139		360,355
140		360,013
141		354,525
142		353,722
143		351,911
144		351,109
145		347,563
146		343,092
147		328,547
148		326,634
149		318,537
150		317,538
151		305,629
152		304,783
153		304,214
154		303,482
155		300,399
156		298,382
157		298,012
158		293,280
159		293,063
160		292,795
161		286,822
162		285,624
163		280,291
164		276,659
165		276,368
166		271,712
167		268,546
168		266,971
169		266,830
170		266,149
171		263,868
172		263,171
173		261,957
174		260,690
175		256,324
176		256,218
177		254,759
178		250,979
179		247,447
180		245,649
181		246,474
182		245,321
183		244,694
184		241,438
185		240,862
186		239,054
187		238,772
188		238,122
189		233,378
190		231,576
191		230,824
192		226,132
193		221,894
194		221,151
195		220,577
196		215,686
197		212,268
198		210,839
199		208,182
200		208,055

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Ultimate US Metros! Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: December 22nd, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 8,137

Tags: State Quizzes, City Quizzes, Population Quizzes, metropolitan, 200, statistical, rank, united, United States, populous, area, retro, ultimate

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	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	5 points
	The ultimate challenge in US metro areas is here! I tried to put acceptable answers for other notable cities within these metros. However, I'm totally unfamiliar with a lot of these so please comment if there are alternate answers I should accept. Enjoy!

	paulvc:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	2 points
	#193: town population is under 50k... does that population count all of Cape Cod? If it does, I think that REALLY stretches the definition of what a "metro" area is.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 05:57 GMT	7 points
	Yes, Barnstable metro is the same as Barnstable County, which is all of Cape Cod. I agree that it seems a bit weird, but that's the way they chose to define it and what I have to go with.

	bsd987:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 08:17 GMT	-1 points
	You need to accept every city that makes up the metropolitan area, not just the city listed first on Wikipedia.

	bsd987:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 08:23 GMT	6 points
	And it's Binghamton, not Binghampton.

	adamnvillani:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 08:39 GMT	4 points
	Oops... the only California Metro Area I forgot was the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura MSA (a.k.a. Ventura County), which is about five miles away, where my wife is from, and where I might move soon.

	Shinogee:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 08:45 GMT	15 points
	Brutal. And yet so awesome.

	AtomicIce:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 12:40 GMT	4 points
	Since this has the largest number of answers I've ever seen on Sporcle, you might want to allow the maximum amount of time as well (20 minutes).

	Sinistercharlo:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 14:10 GMT	1 point
	Awesome quiz. A few of the cities at the bottom I haven't even heard of. I totally lucked into Appleton, WA. I was thinking Appleton, WI!

	tobinw:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 14:24 GMT	8 points
	Isn't Raleigh-Durham almost universally considered to be one metro area?

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 14:41 GMT	2 points
	@bsd, I tried to put alternate answers like that where I could find them- anything specific you want me to add? I fixed Binghamton though. And as Shinogee said, this is pretty brutal, so I did increase the time, although I'm sure most people will give up before they hit 20 minutes.

	Babomomebeo:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 14:54 GMT	5 points
	I am genuinely shocked that Hickory, NC, a town of 37,000, boasts a metro area more than 10 times its size.

	Geo_Crazy:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 16:24 GMT	3 points
	There is no town of Appleton, Washington that I know of, and I am from Washington, so it must be Wisconsin. If there was one, I would be shocked if Bellingham, Olympia, Ellensburg, etc. metros had less people, and that Appleton has a metro area size about the same as Yakima and Pasco-Richland-Kenniwick Tri Cities.

	Geo_Crazy:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 16:28 GMT	2 points
	I guess there is an Appleton, WA, but it looks like nothing is around this small town, and it does not show up on Wikipedia, though there is one in Wisconsin that has more than 200,000 people in its metro.

	bsd987:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 17:04 GMT	2 points
	@unidentified - Oakland and St. Petersburg for starters.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 17:28 GMT	4 points
	Geo_Crazy is right- Appleton, Washington is a typo. I can see how I would easily make such a mistake though, apples and Washington go hand in hand! Also, adding Oakland and St Petersburg got my mental juices flowing and I noticed some other obvious alternate answers I missed which have also ben added.

	Onno:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 17:32 GMT	9 points
	Hold the phone - Vermont appears on a US cities quiz? That isn't about least populous state capitals?

	elnok:	Dec 22nd, 2009 at 20:25 GMT	5 points
	freakin hard because who knows where the statistical areas end around LA and NYC? good stuff, although i must have desporcled myself over the weekend, because 163 just doesn't cut it in my book. :(

	smellyrebel:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 02:56 GMT	5 points
	It might be nice if Quad Cities was an acceptable answer for the Davenport, IA metro. Fascinating quiz. Nice work.

	Semper_Fi:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 05:04 GMT	4 points
	I found myself guessing college towns and places with AHL/ECHL teams. That knowledge has been rotting in the back of my head until now. Good job!

	GeoExpert:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 05:10 GMT	3 points
	I typed in Rome for Rome, GA (don't laugh) and Utica popped up. Why is tha?

	jmarshallg:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 06:43 GMT	5 points
	An alternate for Kennewick, WA should be Tri Cities, as that is what it, Richland and Pasco are referred to.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 16:57 GMT	6 points
	@Geoexpert, that's because the sort-of-well-known (or maybe not) city of Rome, NY is the other major city of the metro. Quad and Tri cities have been added as alternate answers as well.

	village_person:	Feb 5th, 2010 at 01:57 GMT	3 points
	Great quiz! I'm surprised I got 180! One point: Palm Bay (FL) should accept Melbourne and Titusville as answers. They are the two real cities and commercial centers of the metro area. Palm Bay only recently (2003ish) gained a larger population, but it is will always be just a post-war suburb of Melbourne.

	dudemanbearpig:	Mar 14th, 2010 at 14:43 GMT	6 points
	I oughta do a smallest metro areas quiz sometime. That should get people freaking out.

	TheBigE1980:	Mar 29th, 2010 at 04:45 GMT	3 points
	What makes this tough is the number of metro areas that border each other...and never have the urbanization stop between them. The Census Bureau needs to wake up and combine some of these in their MSAs and not just unite them in their CSAs(Washington/Baltimore, San Francisco/San Jose, Los Angeles/Ventura/Riverside, among others)

	Patteroast:	Apr 6th, 2010 at 05:52 GMT	5 points
	Poor North Dakota. It missed making the list (with Fargo) by only ten places.

	beau99:	Apr 10th, 2010 at 07:45 GMT	3 points
	Prescott, AZ is on here? Color me surprised. That place is smaller than a speck of dirt!

	beau99:	Apr 10th, 2010 at 07:47 GMT	1 point
	Oh, and I got #161 thanks to me being a native of that area. Self high five!

	Dralcoffin:	Jul 19th, 2010 at 02:23 GMT	3 points
	I really like this quiz, as I greatly prefer metro numbers to often misleading city limit figures, but it might be a good idea to update the quiz with the new numbers on the source. I'm surprised Fargo doesn't make it.

	chriskotx:	Jul 26th, 2010 at 20:13 GMT	0 points
	I needed more time. I was going non-stop working my way around the country and couldnt get to the midwest except for the major cities. But I know that 20 mins is the max given on Sporcle.

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Jul 27th, 2010 at 01:17 GMT	2 points
	This quiz has now been updated for 2009 population estimates, and the answers actually didn't change at all. There were shakeups in order and population but not a single city entered or exited the top 200. @Dralcoffin: Yeah, Fargo misses by 10 places. It's too bad Sporcle stops at 200, I would have loved to have extended this even further.