Largest Cities in the U.S. by Population
population by state at this link
7/1/2004
New York, N.Y. 8,104,079
Los Angeles, Calif. 3,845,541
Chicago, Ill. 2,862,244
Houston, Tex. 2,012,626
Philadelphia, Pa. 1,470,151
Phoenix, Ariz. 1,418,041
San Diego, Calif. 1,263,756
San Antonio, Tex. 1,236,249
Dallas, Tex. 1,210,393
San Jose, Calif. 904,522
Detroit, Mich. 900,198 951,
Indianapolis, Ind. 784,242
Jacksonville, Fla. 777,704
San Francisco, Calif. 744,230
Columbus, Ohio 730,008
Austin, Tex. 681,804
Memphis, Tenn. 671,929Baltimore, Md. 636,251
Fort Worth, Tex. 603,337
Charlotte, N.C. 594,359
El Paso, Tex. 592,099
Milwaukee, Wis. 583,624
Seattle, Wash. 571,480
Boston, Mass. 569,165
Denver, Colo. 556,835Louisville-Jefferson County, Ky. 556,332
Washington, DC 553,523
Nashville-Davidson, Tenn. 546,719
Las Vegas, Nev. 534,847
Portland, Ore. 533,492
Oklahoma City, Okla. 528,042
Tucson, Ariz. 512,023 486,699
Albuquerque, N.M. 484,246
Long Beach, Calif. 476,564
New Orleans, La. 462,269
Cleveland, Ohio 458,684
Fresno, Calif. 457,719
Sacramento, Calif. 454,330
Kansas City, Mo. 444,387
Virginia Beach, Va. 440,098
Mesa, Ariz. 437,454
Atlanta, Ga. 419,122
Omaha, Nebr. 409,416
Oakland, Calif. 397,976
Tulsa, Okla. 383,764
Miami, Fla. 379,724
Honolulu CDP,3 Hawaii 377,260
Minneapolis, Minn. 373,943
Colorado Springs, Colo. 369,363
Arlington, Tex. 359,467Am surprised that Orlando is not on the list. But since it is actually comprised of about ten smaller communities, with their own town limits, maybe that is the reason. Surely though, Orlando has close to a million people, if not more than that, which makes me wonder about the above figures, as to whether or not the smaller communities are included in the numbers of the above cities, which I doubt, and thus considerably distorts all larger cities, toward smaller numbers, than they really represent.
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The web page linked at the end of this paragraph shows about a baker's dozen metro areas make up about 110 million people in the largest metro areas of the United States; one community in Canada is included in the numbers. But the list of cities, on this web page total under 28 million, for the same cities. The global communities combine several populations though, in that they consider Baltimore and Washington one metro area. click to view 100 of the globe's largest metro populations
1. Louisville and Jefferson County merged in Jan. 2003.
2. Nashville-Davidson city is consolidated with Davidson County.
3. Honolulu Census Designated Place; by agreement with the State of Hawaii, the Census Bureau does not show data separately for the city of Honolulu, which is coextensive with Honolulu County.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau. Web: www.census.gov .
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