Can you name the Five Largest Cities in these US Metro Areas? by marinadelrey

Can you name the Five Largest Cities in these US Metro Areas?

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New York Metropolitan Area
NY
NJ
NJ
NY
NJ

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
CA
CA
CA
CA
CA

Chicago Metropolitan Area
IL
IL
IL
IL
IN

Dallas Metropolitan Area
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX

Philadelphia Metropolitan Area
PA
PA
NJ
DE
NJ

Houston Metropolitan Area
TX
TX
TX
TX
TX

Miami Metropolitan Area
FL
FL
FL
FL
FL

Atlanta Metropolitan Area
GA
GA
GA
GA
GA

Washington DC Metropolitan Area
DC
VA
VA
MD
MD

Boston Metropolitan Area
MA
MA
MA
MA
MA

Detroit Metropolitan Area
MI
MI
MI
MI
MI

Phoenix Metropolitan Area
AZ
AZ
AZ
AZ
AZ

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Largest Cities in US Metro Areas Quiz

by marinadelrey

Created Nov 29, 2009 in Geography
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	parlezvous2:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 16:03 GMT		5 points
	Great job! Really stumped by Detroit and Atlanta! Everything else I got two or three on! Might nominate this one; it was excellent!

	bernie59:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 16:08 GMT		14 points
	Nice! I really liked this. You should do another one with San Francisco and Seattle and St. Louis and Kansas City and more. I would definitely play it!

	whiteparrot:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 16:41 GMT		19 points
	I don't mean to be a pain in the rear but isn't Riverside technically its own metropolitan area? I know it's part of LA's Combined Statistical Area - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Los_Angeles_Area#Metropolitan_Statistical_Area but not the metro...or should I just hush about this minor detail?

	marinadelrey:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 17:55 GMT		2 points
	Yes, I did come across that fact, but I simply understood it to mean that it was part of both the Los Angeles metro as well as its own, the Inland Empire metro. Don't know whether I should change it. Should I?

	micah:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 18:02 GMT		4 points
	Great! I do wonder if you need to make the top city be an answer, as it's a total giveaway.

	marinadelrey:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 18:16 GMT		5 points
	I thought about that, but in the end decided that it is one of the five largest cities and it would be bad to just skip it.

	adamnvillani:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 18:39 GMT		2 points
	I would keep Riverside and go with the MSA. Riverside is linked pretty closely with L.A.; tons of people live there and then work in Orange County. It's all one TV market.

	MattL1216:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 18:48 GMT		15 points
	Reading, PA??? That's an hour away from Philly (a little more), and that's without traffic. I find that a little much...

	smekeldorfed:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 19:10 GMT		1 point
	Definitely keep Riverside, and I would love to see more of these! Great quiz.

	expat:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 20:19 GMT		2 points
	great quiz! i would have sworn Gilbert AZshould have been in there but it just misses.

	psupma:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 21:03 GMT		11 points
	reading is DEFINITELY a stretch for the philly metro area...

	marinadelrey:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 21:24 GMT		5 points
	I live in Philly, I know Reading is a stretch! However, it said that in 2005 the census added Reading to the Philly metro area.

	exackerly:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 22:08 GMT		6 points
	OK, but you should say which kind of metro area -- there are several kinds according to the census bureau.

	andrecb:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 22:50 GMT		1 point
	Great quiz! Hard for non americans, but great either way

	GeoExpert:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 00:10 GMT		5 points
	You may want to fix the source, the URL is incorrect. http://www.census.gov/popest/estbygeo.html Good quiz, btw

	marpocky:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 03:10 GMT		-3 points
	You can probably get rid of the city itself for each one. Say something about it in the quiz description if you have to. Either cut it down to 4 per city, or have us guess the 2nd-6th or something. Good quiz though!

	AtomicIce:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 20:43 GMT		3 points
	Reading as part of the Philly metro area??

	marinadelrey:	Nov 30th, 2009 at 22:03 GMT		4 points
	I explained that already. I am from Philly and I know that Reading is around an hour away. However... the Census Bureau added Reading to the Philly metro area in 2005.

	Kaleb:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 00:07 GMT		4 points
	Got Hollywood and Pasadena for guessing for LA, haha. Good quiz!

	jaspa:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 06:09 GMT		6 points
	I have a feeling you picked the largest metro areas, but I feel like there are a few omissions here. This quiz just doesn't seem complete without the San Francisco Bay and Tampa Bay Areas. Great quiz otherwise!

	ricorico:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 10:48 GMT		4 points
	Yeah I did, and those two were right behind, and I didn't want to put too many because it's annoying to scroll. I do have a second edition in the works which will have those.

	Geo_Crazy:	Dec 1st, 2009 at 21:20 GMT		0 points
	Yea, driving from Orange County to Riverside area, it is impossible to tell that you are in a different metro area. A very fun and interesting quiz. Would love to see this quiz for the top 30 or so metro areas in the US, and perhaps beyond American soils.

	jhc_phd09:	Dec 4th, 2009 at 22:41 GMT		1 point
	You should accept Sugar Land as one word as it is often spelled that way.

	sabresfan:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 05:20 GMT		2 points
	I'm curious how 19% of people manage to miss Atlanta...

	mjones34:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 13:33 GMT		5 points
	I would say Riverside is a stretch. Yeah its all one big area, but almost all map publications list the two metros separately. GREAT quiz.

	Onno:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 15:17 GMT		8 points
	Technically this quiz randomly switches between MSA definitions and CSA definitions. LA and Philadelphia are CSAs, but Boston, Washington and Detroit are MSAs. Also, the Houston answers are outdated, as of the 2009 estimates it's: Houston - 2,257,926, Pasadena - 145,789, Pearland - 86,341, Sugar Land - 81,725, Missouri City - 74,853

	ThisBirdHasFlown:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 15:39 GMT		2 points
	How did more people get Newark than Houston, Detroit, Atlanta, and Phoenix? The biggest city is the metro area name

	eja82:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 15:41 GMT		5 points
	I can see what you are saying about Riverside because it for all other purposes is part of LA but for it is not part of the Metro area MSA according to the Census. It you want to include it for LA metro put in a disclaimer that you are not using actual MSA census boundaries.

	BoomRShine:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 15:52 GMT		14 points
	Onno is correct. Some are MSAs and CSAs. Philadelphia is a CSA and includes the Reading MSA, and thus Reading is one of the top five cities in the Philadelphia metro. Downtown Philadelphia and downtown Reading are more than 50 miles apart. Detroit is a MSA and does not include the Ann Arbor MSA, and thus Ann Arbor is not one of the top five cities in the Detroit metro. Downtown Detroit and downtown Ann Arbor are less than 35 miles apart. The quiz should be consistent.

	johnlk:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 18:49 GMT		5 points
	If you're using CSA, use CSA; if you're using MSA, use MSA. And tell us which you are doing.

	inyouraeroplane:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 20:40 GMT		5 points
	Only one I got all five on was Dallas, mainly because I'm from Fort Worth. I definitely recommend adding the San Francisco Bay Area and possibly Denver.

	chriskotx:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 22:46 GMT		3 points
	The questions on Riverside and Reading are legit. Those need to be addressed and clarified to the quiz taker.

	BiloxiSean:	Aug 19th, 2010 at 22:51 GMT		2 points
	For Philly, you include Reading, but don't include trenton, which is about the same distance away.

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	jonesjeffum:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 05:08 GMT		0 points
	Great quiz but I would have supstituted san francisco for atlanta.

	JeopardyTempest:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 07:10 GMT		2 points
	Was surprised Pearland and Katy didn't make the Houston list. Oh well. Do enjoy the quiz. Consistency would be good for precision, but I can deal for the time being :-D

	chris789:	Aug 20th, 2010 at 23:56 GMT		1 point
	@jonesjeffum ....the metro areas are in order by population

	TheBigE1980:	Aug 21st, 2010 at 23:36 GMT		1 point
	Keep Riverside with LA. It's completely asinine that the Census Bureau does not consider the two to be one giant metro area anyway. Hopefully they'll fix it with the next census.

	Patteroast:	Aug 24th, 2010 at 17:56 GMT		3 points
	Maybe Windsor, ON could be a bonus answer for Detroit, since Detroit-Windsor is often considered an international metropolitan area? Fun quiz either way... although I was sad that Minneapolis-St. Paul wasn't included, because then I could have used local knowledge. :P

	lalalala:	Aug 25th, 2010 at 07:08 GMT		0 points
	why do we have to repeat the city?