Can you name the 40 Largest US Metro Areas? by buck44_22

Population	Metro Area/Primary City
19,006,798
12,872,808
9,569,624
6,300,006
5,931,427
5,728,143
5,497,709
5,376,285
5,358,130
4,522,858
4,425,110
4,281,899
4,274,531
4,115,871
3,344,813
3,229,878
3,027,497
2,816,710
2,733,761
2,667,117

Population	Metro Area/Primary City
2,506,626
2,351,192
2,207,462
2,155,137
2,109,832
2,088,291
2,054,574
2,031,445
2,002,047
1,865,746
1,819,198
1,773,120
1,715,459
1,701,799
1,658,292
1,652,602
1,596,611
1,550,733
1,549,308
1,313,228

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40 Largest US Metro Areas Quiz

by buck44_22

Created Jan 27, 2010 in Geography
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	minus_the_bear:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 22:46 GMT	6 points
	is it just me, or isn't san jose part of the bay area?

	joe amrhein:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 22:50 GMT	3 points
	What is Inland Empire?

	minus_the_bear:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 22:56 GMT	4 points
	it consists of riverside, san bernardino and the surrounding areas in california, just inland from los angeles, hence the inland empire...

	bsd987:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 22:59 GMT	-1 points
	San Bernadino should be accepted for Inland Empire and the area is "San Francisco Bay Area" since there are other bay areas (i.e. Tampa Bay Area).

	bsd987:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 23:00 GMT	0 points
	Same for "Twin cities." Just list it as "Minneapolis-St. Paul"

	minus_the_bear:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 23:00 GMT	4 points
	it is accepted for inland empire, just spell it right. its san bernaRdino, not san bernadino...

	Andiyan:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 23:21 GMT	1 point
	It didn't accept Saint Louis...

	buck44_22:	Jan 27th, 2010 at 23:29 GMT	5 points
	The source is the US Census bureau, not Wikipedia. These numbers reflect more accurate descriptions of the populations of major US urban areas. Contemporary city-county consolidations have distorted these numbers so that people are told, for example, that Jacksonville, FL is the 13th most populous city in the US, far outpacing Miami, which is listed at 43rd behind places like Albuquerque and Omaha. The greater Miami area is a major entertainment and cultural hotspot, one of the more dynamic in the country, while Jacksonville is struggling to keep an NFL football team because the local economy isn't large enough to sustain it. As for San Jose being part of the Bay Area (San Francisco or Oakland will get you the same answer by the way, just as either Minneapolis or St. Paul will get you Twin Cities), I don't necessarily disagree, but the Census bureau says otherwise.

	johnlk:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 01:27 GMT	4 points
	The Census Bureau actually has two kinds of metro area - there's the basic unit, listed here, the Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the Combined Statistical Area, which combines multiple MSAs. So San Jose and San Francisco are separate MSAs, but the same CSA. Same with Baltimore and Washington, or with LA and the Inland Empire.

	buck44_22:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 02:48 GMT	5 points
	True enough. However, cities like Baltimore and Washington maintain very separate identities and histories as established American cities. The correlations between populations in California are much looser and trickier, but as an LA resident, I believe it's fair to call San Berdoo/Riverside a separate region coinciding with but socially and ecomonically different in many ways from greater LA. The same goes for San Jose and it's proximity to the San Fran Bay Area.

	JoDB:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 18:38 GMT	2 points
	Very well justified, 5*.

	Stewart:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 22:09 GMT	2 points
	It's misleading to use SF Bay Area to mean the SF-Oakland MSA, however. San Jose is part of the San Francisco Bay Area as it is normally defined. It'd be better if you just called it San Francisco - Oakland (or SF-Oakland-Fremont which I believe is the full designation). To me, seeing Bay Area suggested you were counting the whole CSA under that label. Also, entering 'twin cities' didn't trigger the Twin Cities answer, likewise for 'inland empire' and 'silicon valley'. If you're going to show them as answers they should be accepted as answers.

	buck44_22:	Jan 29th, 2010 at 06:23 GMT	3 points
	I fixed all of the above mentioned problems. Thanks for your input!

	Trek222:	May 5th, 2010 at 05:08 GMT	3 points
	Should accept Hampton Roads for Virginia Beach - Norfolk.

	jaybrad77:	Oct 14th, 2010 at 18:04 GMT	-3 points
	You're missing some that fall in the top 40