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#greenscreen How many 'big #cities' are in your #state? This map shows the number of cities per state to have >100,000 residents. Now, unfortunately, in the #UnitedStates, we sorta have a problem with how we measure the 'size' of cities, since the city limits often don’t reflect the number of people who live AROUND a city, for example, the city of #Portland, #Maine, has 65,000 residents in the city itself, but the #metro has over 500,000 people. In fact, in #Delaware, #Vermont, and #WestVirginia, there are metro's above 100k (namely #Wilmington #DE, #Burlington #VT, and #Charleston and #Huntington #WV, respectively), whereas #Wyoming is the only state to arguably not have one, as the #Cheyenne metro (which is just #Laramie #County) only hit 100k in the last few years or so. #California, the most populous state, has the most cities this size at 75, naturally followed by the next most populous states of #Texas with 43, #Florida with 27, and #NewYork with 16, while #Arizona sneaks in at #5 thanks to the #Phoenix #metroarea having so many absurdly large suburbs. #Colorado is quite similar, as the #Denver metro has 8 suburbs over 100k. There are 8 states with only 1 city this large, and they are #Montana (#Billings), #NorthDakota (#Fargo), #SouthDakota (#SiouxFalls), #Hawaii (#Honolulu), #Alaska (#Anchorage), #NewHampshire (#Manchester), #RhodeIsland (#Providence), and perhaps surprisingly, the 33rd most populous state, #Mississippi, which only has #Jackson. If anything, this map is an interesting example of how maps are a useful tool for data manipulation, as the qualifications for this map are quite definition-based, and slightly misleading without the added context of what metro areas are. #geography #geographyjoe #states #usa #us #metropolitan #city #population #populationmap #ohio #massive