I live in Maine. I find it funny how Augusta, our state's capitol, is the tenth largest city and has been decreasing in population for years. They should move the Capitol to Portland or Bangor, but the process in doing so is too complex to really attempt, especially with our state's budget.
You think that’s bad, in Kentucky, Frankfort is the capital, but it has 32k people. Only reason is because they couldn’t decide between Lexington and Louisville, so they put it in between 🙄 (personally it should’ve been Lexington imo)
@@elgeorge437 My uncle lives in Hopkinsville right near the military base, and I have a friend who lives in Louisville. I personally think choosing one city or the other would have been a better choice than putting it in the middle of nowhere. You'd think a lot of States would pick the place that makes most sense for a Capitol, especially sparsely populated ones. Nevada chose Carson City (a ways west of Reno), and it also has a low population. You'd think they'd just choose Reno or Vegas.
Cool video! It’s interesting how some of the largest cities in certain states are cities I’ve never even heard of. Fun fact: New York’s second largest city is Buffalo, but the second largest municipality is actually Hempstead which has over twice the number of people as Buffalo.
I can't explain it in detail, but Hempstead is made up of 22 villages and 38 hamlets. If incorporated as one city, it would be the second largest city/town in the state of NY. According to the US Census, Hempstead (historically known as South Hempstead) has 59,000 people. I guess you can compare it to London. London is a city (all boroughs included) is close to 9 million people, but the city of London (one borough) is a few thousand people.
Fun Fact: There are 15 states where the capital is not in the top 5. (California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Washington)
It’s really easy to forget that a big chunk of New York state is very rural. I’m not from New York but I find it very annoying that people only give a damn about NYC and not about the other 90% of the state’s land area
@@williamhrivnak7345 Yeah I agree, when I told my cousins who are from Alabama that I live in New York they said "Oh ur from New York, have u seen the statue of liberty?" Btw I live in central New York
It’s because nearly half of every movie, tv show, and comic book focuses on New York. Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, the Avengers, MAfia movies, TMNT, Enemy of the State, Bourne series, GTA3 so on and so on, all in New York, so ppl just think of the city when you say New York,
A lot of people think that sports representation equates to larger population. I was shocked to see that typically heavy sports towns like St. Louis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tampa, Miami, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh all have smaller populations than my city, Raleigh NC. Salt Lake City hosted an Olympics!
Kinda interesting how Jacksonville has almost 1 million people yet it’s not nearly as interesting as Tampa, Orlando, or Miami! Growing up I always thought Miami was the most populated Florida city
Always find it amusing how misleading some of these statistics are. Metro area is way more accurate than technical city limits. If you just remove the city signage, and you didn’t know better, a ton of those “cities” are really all the same city for any practical purpose.
The Fact that New York City alone has more than the other New York cities combined is crazy. There’s more ppl there than in entire other states, mainly the ones out west in the mountains, this is why everything is scheduled with East Coast time,
Even after studying maps and watching the Weather Channel, I have never heard of 62 of these cities in 39 states (actually counted), some of which have more people than their state capital.
Yeah, I gotta admit that while Houston is bigger than Dallas and Ft Worth combined, I think the DFW SMA is slightly bigger than the Houston SMA. And Austin which is looking bigger is very small compared to the major metro SMA's. Former enemies, Houston and Dallas, are teaming up to but upstart Austin in its place. The Texas Central Railway will prevail against the plague. It has only one stop between the cities, Bryan/College Station. We have the Aggies on our side. We will prevail. Oh wait, the Aggies....
the greater metro areas can triple the population easily will all the suburbs. only half a million people live in atlanta but the greater metro probably has 1.5 million
A lot of people think Juneau is bigger than Fairbanks. What this list doesn't tell you is that the city of Juneau merged with the local borough for a municipal population of about 32,000. Fairbanks city limits is about 31,000. But our area is closer to 100,000. So Fairbanks is by far and away much bigger than Juneau.
We know that the Top 4 largest cities are in Chicagoland. The 2nd three are satellite cities of Chicago, not suburbs. However, not only the core city of the metro area have suburbs, but the satellite cities also have suburbs too. For example: In Greater Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA is a satellite of L.A. and it's nearby suburbs are Lakewood, Compton, Paramount and Bellflower just to name a few.
It infuriates me living in a mid size Chicago suburb to realize I’d be living in a top 5 city in over 1/3 of states. How tf is Wyoming or Vermont a state? California has about 60 or 70 times more people but still gets the same Senate representation! Why is someone in Wyoming deserving of 60 times stronger representation than someone in California?
You do know how the house of representatives works right? Theres a reason California has 52 representatives and Wyoming only has 1. The Senate was created to combat states like California from ALWAYS having more power than states like Wyoming, which is fair. In reality the only thing the Senate can do is approve treaties with foreign nations, and vote in impeachment trials. The house of representatives is obviously the more important branch of government. So I’m not sure why the existence of lesser populated states infuriates you when they’re not represented as heavily and don’t have nearly as significant of a say in creating laws or passing bills😂
Some of the most populated cities are about to be dethroned such as Birmingham, AL, Bridgeport, CT, Newark, NJ (possibly), Charleston, SC, and Charleston, WV
thanks a lot you did good job but for us i mean for foreigner it is difficulties to pronounce the name of states and cities as Native pronounce , so with due respect if you make on video with natives pronunciation i mean american ascent, we thank.
I'm from Washington, and I find it sad and funny at the same time knowing that the west side has all the big cities and is what is thought of when people think of Washington, and then there's Spokane, the second largest WA city, just minutes from the Idaho border.
Paradise, NV is a "census designated place" and not an incorporated city. Sparks should have been at #5 with about 100K. Also, most of your Maryland list also shows CDPs and not incorporated cities. They should have included Rockville, Frederick and either Bowie or Gaithersburg.
The numbers there are incorrect the 5th biggest city is actualy 15k people and barre which was placed in 4th is actually the 15th biggest so a bit away from 4th
The Greenville-Spartanburg metro definitely is. (Number 1 in the state now); however, less than 75,000 actually live in Greenville proper which is what this data is presenting.
@@ferretweasel6895 Could always rename it. West Virginia is honestly so vastly different to Virginia in a variety of ways, and most people already call the region 'Appalachia', I think that name would fit it better to be honest.
My zip code is getting crowded at 71 people per square mile up from 56 ten years ago. All kidding aside. I was born in Chicago and would never live in a large metro again. The rural life is good for me.
4 of the 5 listed for Arizona are in the SAME metro area. :)
All 5 of Illinois’s are in the same metro
@@crustpunkjesuschrist Rockford is not part of the Chicago area. It lies outside of the collar-counties that make up the Chicago Metro area.
Same with Nevada
@@coltonriffle2310 Reno is not located in the Las Vegas metropolitan area.
4 of 5 in nevada too. and the 5th largest in nevada is unincorporated
I live in Maine. I find it funny how Augusta, our state's capitol, is the tenth largest city and has been decreasing in population for years. They should move the Capitol to Portland or Bangor, but the process in doing so is too complex to really attempt, especially with our state's budget.
You think that’s bad, in Kentucky, Frankfort is the capital, but it has 32k people. Only reason is because they couldn’t decide between Lexington and Louisville, so they put it in between 🙄 (personally it should’ve been Lexington imo)
@@elgeorge437 My uncle lives in Hopkinsville right near the military base, and I have a friend who lives in Louisville. I personally think choosing one city or the other would have been a better choice than putting it in the middle of nowhere. You'd think a lot of States would pick the place that makes most sense for a Capitol, especially sparsely populated ones. Nevada chose Carson City (a ways west of Reno), and it also has a low population. You'd think they'd just choose Reno or Vegas.
Wow. Miami has a lot less than I thought.
City proper
Ohio's 3 largest cities are called the 3 Cs.
No. The "Three C's" in Ohio is Cuyahoga Community College.
Gee never heard that before
Wild to think that all of Minnesota could fit in my city's Statistical Metropolitan Area, and three fourths of it just in Harris County.
Thank you for watching!
And about 2/3 of Minnesotans live In the msp metro
Harris county is larger than all of Rhode Island
metro pop is the only true way to measure pop.....
I'm from Mississippi, I now live in Maryland. I love the US Cities, wanna move to a big city one day.
And I hope you achieve that dream! Thank you for watching!
0:06 says Philly is number 5 but 0:39 says Phoenix is bigger than Philly
Kansas is surprisingly impressive, beating out alot of the mega states with those KC suburbs.
Cool video! It’s interesting how some of the largest cities in certain states are cities I’ve never even heard of.
Fun fact: New York’s second largest city is Buffalo, but the second largest municipality is actually Hempstead which has over twice the number of people as Buffalo.
I can't explain it in detail, but Hempstead is made up of 22 villages and 38 hamlets. If incorporated as one city, it would be the second largest city/town in the state of NY. According to the US Census, Hempstead (historically known as South Hempstead) has 59,000 people. I guess you can compare it to London. London is a city (all boroughs included) is close to 9 million people, but the city of London (one borough) is a few thousand people.
Greetings from North Dakota
Greetings and thanks for watching!
Fun Fact: There are 15 states where the capital is not in the top 5. (California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Washington)
I love how New York has NYC with 8.8M then 2nd place just goes down to 251K
It’s really easy to forget that a big chunk of New York state is very rural. I’m not from New York but I find it very annoying that people only give a damn about NYC and not about the other 90% of the state’s land area
@@williamhrivnak7345 Yeah I agree, when I told my cousins who are from Alabama that I live in New York they said "Oh ur from New York, have u seen the statue of liberty?" Btw I live in central New York
@@williamhrivnak7345 Although some people (5.62478% of US population) know about the capital Albany
It’s because nearly half of every movie, tv show, and comic book focuses on New York. Spider-Man, Superman, Batman, the Avengers, MAfia movies, TMNT, Enemy of the State, Bourne series, GTA3 so on and so on, all in New York, so ppl just think of the city when you say New York,
Also most of the country is rural, or desert, or mountains,
I live in New York, and I've always known that New York City was the largest city in my state. I also knew that it was the largest city in the USA.
wow, nice one!
Is there anyone that doesn’t know that about NYC?
Anchorage AK is larger than NYC
@@SirensOfWA New York is actually larger by population. Anchorage is larger by area.
A lot of people think that sports representation equates to larger population. I was shocked to see that typically heavy sports towns like St. Louis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Tampa, Miami, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh all have smaller populations than my city, Raleigh NC. Salt Lake City hosted an Olympics!
Kinda interesting how Jacksonville has almost 1 million people yet it’s not nearly as interesting as Tampa, Orlando, or Miami! Growing up I always thought Miami was the most populated Florida city
Yeah the population disparity is crazy in this country! Thanks for watching!
I live in jacksonville Florida and at one point I thought they had more than my city But it's only the metropolitan area
Always find it amusing how misleading some of these statistics are. Metro area is way more accurate than technical city limits. If you just remove the city signage, and you didn’t know better, a ton of those “cities” are really all the same city for any practical purpose.
Exactly! Miami is wayyy bigger than Jacksonville. They have 6 million people while Jacksonville only has 1 million
Error: Phoenix is more popular than Philadelphia
Greetings from the great state of Western Australia 😂 quite surprised at some of the cities on the list and some I'd never heard of 👍
Thank you for watching! Never been to Australia but I'd love to go someday. Your country looks like it has beautiful landscapes!
Who knows more about each other country, USA or Australia?
The Fact that New York City alone has more than the other New York cities combined is crazy. There’s more ppl there than in entire other states, mainly the ones out west in the mountains, this is why everything is scheduled with East Coast time,
its funny how some of these states have such a huge drop in population, like going from 290,000 for anchorage and then like 30-40kish for juneau
The population disparity in some places is quite crazy!
@@MattGeo83 I would definitely agree on that.
Even after studying maps and watching the Weather Channel, I have never heard of 62 of these cities in 39 states (actually counted), some of which have more people than their state capital.
This is alright. Would’ve been way better if you did metro areas instead
Yeah, I gotta admit that while Houston is bigger than Dallas and Ft Worth combined, I think the DFW SMA is slightly bigger than the Houston SMA. And Austin which is looking bigger is very small compared to the major metro SMA's.
Former enemies, Houston and Dallas, are teaming up to but upstart Austin in its place. The Texas Central Railway will prevail against the plague. It has only one stop between the cities, Bryan/College Station. We have the Aggies on our side. We will prevail. Oh wait, the Aggies....
Thanks for the tip! I just may do that. Thank you for watching!
@@MattGeo83I could also recommend urban areas (both are better than city proper imo)
I'm from SF! It's an amazing place!
the greater metro areas can triple the population easily will all the suburbs. only half a million people live in atlanta but the greater metro probably has 1.5 million
3-6 million
Atlanta metro ranges from 5-7 million depending on what is counted
A lot of people think Juneau is bigger than Fairbanks. What this list doesn't tell you is that the city of Juneau merged with the local borough for a municipal population of about 32,000. Fairbanks city limits is about 31,000. But our area is closer to 100,000. So Fairbanks is by far and away much bigger than Juneau.
I didn’t realize where I was born had the second most population in Kansas lol
We know that the Top 4 largest cities are in Chicagoland. The 2nd three are satellite cities of Chicago, not suburbs. However, not only the core city of the metro area have suburbs, but the satellite cities also have suburbs too. For example: In Greater Los Angeles, Long Beach, CA is a satellite of L.A. and it's nearby suburbs are Lakewood, Compton, Paramount and Bellflower just to name a few.
I’d say LBC is a suburb I’d say a satellite city of LA would be Ventura
It infuriates me living in a mid size Chicago suburb to realize I’d be living in a top 5 city in over 1/3 of states. How tf is Wyoming or Vermont a state? California has about 60 or 70 times more people but still gets the same Senate representation! Why is someone in Wyoming deserving of 60 times stronger representation than someone in California?
Because we are not a Democracy. We are a constitutional republic. The USA would have never formed if large states could completely bully small ones
You do know how the house of representatives works right? Theres a reason California has 52 representatives and Wyoming only has 1. The Senate was created to combat states like California from ALWAYS having more power than states like Wyoming, which is fair. In reality the only thing the Senate can do is approve treaties with foreign nations, and vote in impeachment trials. The house of representatives is obviously the more important branch of government. So I’m not sure why the existence of lesser populated states infuriates you when they’re not represented as heavily and don’t have nearly as significant of a say in creating laws or passing bills😂
My town was on one of those maps
What town
@@samanthaschnetzler7812 We'll never know
1:21 what? smyrna?
Yesss I’m from Grand Rapids
Nice. My family lives there
Some of the most populated cities are about to be dethroned such as Birmingham, AL, Bridgeport, CT, Newark, NJ (possibly), Charleston, SC, and Charleston, WV
These lists vary wildly if you base it off land area
thanks a lot you did good job but for us i mean for foreigner it is difficulties to pronounce the name of states and cities as Native pronounce , so with due respect if you make on video with natives pronunciation i mean american ascent, we thank.
did we know san jose was 3rd in population in cali? now we do.... it does make sense though- sf only has so much room
3:44
I'm from Washington, and I find it sad and funny at the same time knowing that the west side has all the big cities and is what is thought of when people think of Washington, and then there's Spokane, the second largest WA city, just minutes from the Idaho border.
I'm done with city life, unfortunately mine was in the top 5
I prefer the farmland, mountainous lands and coast scenery
Paradise, NV is a "census designated place" and not an incorporated city. Sparks should have been at #5 with about 100K. Also, most of your Maryland list also shows CDPs and not incorporated cities. They should have included Rockville, Frederick and either Bowie or Gaithersburg.
When you realize that Fort Worth and Jacksonville has double the population of Miami and more ppl than San Francisco, 🤯
Delaware has Newark & Wilmington too close to each other 😭
Any reason you chose NOT to display New York State? It goes from New Mexico to North Carolina. New York would be in between.
Actually New York is there lol, I just realized that I put that slide after North Dakota. Brain fart on my part but it is there!
@@MattGeo83 That would explain it. I still sing the song with the 50 states in alphabetical order to remember them all. Thanks!
RIP aspect ratio of some of these states
The Metro of a city tell the true size of it
Actually working on a metro pop video right now. Thanks for watching!
I just posted the top 15 most populated metro areas in the US. Check it out!
the fact that Illinois is Chicago and suburb cities
man really played the national anthem on us
This video does not show that some suburban municipalities are bigger than the biggest 'cities' in some states.
Most common name: Rochester with 3 ny mn nh
Even Wyoming has larger cities than Vermont 😆😆😆
I watched the whole thing, Vermont is the state with the smallest 5th-biggest city.
The numbers there are incorrect the 5th biggest city is actualy 15k people and barre which was placed in 4th is actually the 15th biggest so a bit away from 4th
It also has the smallest largest city.
Kansas city missouri
God Bless the USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Michigan has 11 million total. Ooooppps you need to be current ...
DO CANADA RIGHT NOW PLZ
I have two videos for Canada on my channel.
You know you only looked at your state. Just admit it.
wait greenville sc isnt even in sc's top 5?
The Greenville-Spartanburg metro definitely is. (Number 1 in the state now); however, less than 75,000 actually live in Greenville proper which is what this data is presenting.
My city would be in this video if it was by metro area I live in California guess where
San brenardino?
Nope
Sacramento?
@@ohsosweeney 👍
@@somerandomguyonyt8766 glad to know lol
Who has the longest metro area
By time period or width/length?
@@gapeachjuice6261 both width and length
Houston
@@290BayouCityFishing I would have thought new York city metro, doesn't that go like to Connecticut.
@@kaaronhudson8112 Yeah Fairfield County Connecticut
I feel like West Virginia should merge with Virginia and make Puerto Rico the 50th state in the U.S.
I thought they tried after the war but West Virginia just became it’s own, geographically the mountains make a good border too
@@ferretweasel6895 Could always rename it. West Virginia is honestly so vastly different to Virginia in a variety of ways, and most people already call the region 'Appalachia', I think that name would fit it better to be honest.
If you’re gonna merge a pair of states, choose the Dakotas,
Phoenix is 5th largest city not Philly lol
My zip code is getting crowded at 71 people per square mile up from 56 ten years ago. All kidding aside. I was born in Chicago and would never live in a large metro again. The rural life is good for me.
Old stats.
Alternate title: Nuking America! Which Cities First?
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