Even More US Cities You DIDN'T Know Were So LARGE! #geography

[colemaxson]

Lifelong Traverse City resident. Locals will always say it’s a “small town” with an accommodating atmosphere when really we just are a city now. Something more locals gotta deal with.

[Aquatarkus]

Amarillo should be on here. Its in the literal middle of nowhere. Diving there is fun. Nothing for 5 hours then BAM youre in a mid size city. We have no river, no other defining reasons a city should be there, and yet it has over a quarter million people living there

[williesandersYT]

Clarksville Tennessee is often overshadowed by the nearby Nashville Metro. They're separate though

[TheEgg]

How about the opposite. Well known places that we didn't know were so small.

[tysonskaggs]

There is also the St. George Metro area in Southern Utah which has a population around 200, 000

[troys]

CORRECTION: Morgantown is home to West Virginia University (WVU). No U of WV exists.

[dwrightmanblack]

Lawton is the third largest city in Oklahoma, located in the SW. It just feels isolated because there are no other major cities within a two hour drive. Fairly beautiful place with the rolling hills overlooking the city. Also side note (I may upset some Texans) I'd compare Amarillo to a small-mid sized OKC.

[daltonkaiser]

My hometown of Roanoke, Virginia is one of those places that is much bigger than people give it credit. Since Virginia does independent cities, most people think Roanoke has around 100, 000 people, but we really have a bit around 250, 000 if you count Roanoke City, Roanoke County, Salem City, and the parts of Botetourt County and Bedford County that Roanoke has sprawled into. The metro population is a bit over 300, 000, but I feel it should be combined with Blacksburg’s metro since the two places are very related community connection wise.

[GrantHolmstrom]

It does help that Lawton has Fort Sill there

[Sunny-in-Tucson]

You must be from Arizona if you pronounced Prescott properly like that.

[Alislug]

I think Buffalo ny is a city that should’ve made this list considering its population is 278 thousand and its metro population is 1.1 million people.

[BoogerDeluxe]

You won’t see a whole lot of turn signals in Prescott.

[Rikrik]

I didn’t realize until I drove through there recently how large the Salt Lake City metro area is. It just went on and on and on…

[Iguana-Power]

It’s not University of West Virginia, it’s West Virginia University.

Signed, a WVU graduate

[SonOfKorahMusic]

Some Texas cities to consider:
El Paso
Amarillo
Tyler
Corpus Christi

And El Paso, by the way, is across the border from Juarez (which is as populous as Houston proper)

[lagautmd]

Interesting about Morgantown (which I very much like and travel to regularly), it has practically zero DC fast chargers for EVs. What they have are low speed for such chargers and a Tesla Supercharger. So, if you don't live there where you can charge at home overnight, traveling through is tough for non-Tesla EV owners.

[CaffeinatedWizard]

Henderson NV has a population of very close to 500, 000.

[forrestihler]

If you’re gonna do Kalispell, you gotta do Idaho Falls, Idaho. It’s just as big.

[CameronsCookingChannel]

These places are still quite small don't you think? You could list many places in California that are not in a major metro area that most people don't even know about, all with higher populations than these. Lancaster CA area? 500K. Bakersfield area? 1 million. Chico CA? 200K. These areas aren't even close to SF or LA

[nikprocaccini]

Bend OR is surprisingly large as well - 100, 000 people on the wrong side of the cascades