Had to laugh at Tulsa labeling itself as being a smaller city. ?ÿWith only a total of 46 larger cities in the entire US and a population over 400,000 it clearly would not fit my image of a smaller city.
Have been to the airport many times but have spent little time or money inside the city limits. ?ÿMaybe 140 miles from here.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa,_Oklahoma
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Had to laugh at Tulsa labeling itself as being a smaller city. ?ÿWith only a total of 46 larger cities in the entire US and a population over 400,000 it clearly would not fit my image of a smaller city.
Have been to the airport many times but have spent little time or money inside the city limits. ?ÿMaybe 140 miles from here.
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To me that sounds like a surprising statistic as it sort of means that every state has only one city over 400,000 people. Mind you I had it in my mind that the total population is 1B, but I see its not - 328M. Years ago a good friend at high school proudly stated that 6% of the surface of USA is paved so maybe that's wrong too (maybe he quoted 1B population as well). My only experience of USA cities is transiting through LAX, but flying across it, both day and night, I'm amazed at how sparse the built up areas seem to be.
21 states have their largest cities with populations less than that of Tulsa. ?ÿA couple have fewer than 50,000.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/the-biggest-city-in-every-state/ss-AAvM21v#image=51
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Scroll through the slide show for news on each biggest city.
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A couple of observations here.
First, as a former student of cartography, maps like this drive me crazy.?ÿ While it does have a legend for the city populations it is not complete.?ÿ What do the blue cities represent, apparently not politics,?ÿ and who uses exponential notation for this kind of data.?ÿ Then there is the state colors, no legend at all.?ÿRant off.
As for the list of largest cities.?ÿ While I can not speak for all of the states on the list I do have a little experience with the west coast.?ÿ If you just look at the city population you are getting nowhere near the whole picture.?ÿ While both Seattle and Portland have similar populations 700k & 650k respectively, you need to look surrounding metropolitan areas.?ÿ Metropolitan Portland, including SW Washington is around 2.2 million and metropolitan Seattle comes in at 3.9 million.
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I think the state colors are arbitrary.?ÿ You need at 4 colors to assure no adjacent states have the same color, and I see just 4.
I spent a year and a half in Tulsa a few years back (1/13 to 7/14). I wonder if the offer is retroactive.?ÿ It's not an awful place, but it really could use a dose of PDX urban growth boundary style inner city regeneration. And shade trees. Lots of shade trees.