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Jackson only has 539,057 people in the 5 counties of Copiah, Hinds, Madison, Rankin, and Simpson counties.
In the Combined Statistical Area, Jackson-Vicksburg Brookhaven (Warren, Lincoln, Hinds, Madison, Rankin, Yazoo, Copiah, and Simpson counties) it goes up to 650,764.
The following cities are the only cities that are big time cities across the board to everyone - NYC and LA. I would fully expect most of the world's population to know about or have heard of these two cities.
That being said, the following cities are big time to nearly/virtually everyone, but not all depending on their background (maybe growing up and living all their life in NYC, London, Tokyo, Shanghai etc.): Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco, Dallas, Boston, Miami, Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Seattle, Phoenix, and Minneapolis. In that general order. In my opinion, these are still among the US's major global cities. I would expect a large percentage of people in the world to know or have heard of these cities too.
After that, it becomes more subjective based on user experiences, so I tend to think of those 14 cities as all-around big time cities, and I think the vast majority of people would really tend to agree. Now, are there more big cities, in my opinion? Absolutely! But convincing nearly everyone to agree on that becomes more and increasingly difficult.
In my personal opinion, the cut-off for a national big city is probably somewhere in the top 50 (1 million in urban area population), such as Richmond, VA. Also IMO, there can be a big city within a state that is most definitely not a big city nationally, such as Burlington, VT or Cheyenne, WY. Definitely small cities, but significant to their respective states.
Maybe it's because I'm from the east coast and the only cities people really talk about are DC, NYC, Chicago and Boston, etc but I don't really consider Minneapolis a big city... it's just... a city.
Anything over 500,000 or 600,000 people I consider big, anything under that, not really. When you think about it, 200K or 300K isn't really a lot of people. There are counties in NoVa or Maryland or NJ with over 1 million people.
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Maybe it's because I'm from the east coast and the only cities people really talk about are DC, NYC, Chicago and Boston, etc but I don't really consider Minneapolis a big city... it's just... a city.
Anything over 500,000 or 600,000 people I consider big, anything under that, not really. When you think about it, 200K or 300K isn't really a lot of people. There are counties in NoVa or Maryland or NJ with over 1 million people.
Yeah you know, I was thinking that Pheonix, Seattle, and Minneapolis are questionable as being big time cities to virtually everyone. Just depends. I'd love to do a thread called "what are the most recognizable/esteemed U.S. cities among the world". My guess is that even the some of the most oblivious/remote people should still know about or have heard of NY/Manhattan/Brooklyn and LA/Hollywood/Beverely Hills. I mean not 100% of the world's population but a good chunk do. Follow-up with DC, SF, Chicago, Boston, Miami, and maybe the others (Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas).
Yeah you know, I was thinking that Pheonix, Seattle, and Minneapolis are questionable as being big time cities to virtually everyone. Just depends. I'd love to do a thread called "what are the most recognizable/esteemed U.S. cities among the world". My guess is that even the some of the most oblivious/remote people should still know about or have heard of NY/Manhattan/Brooklyn and LA/Hollywood/Beverely Hills. I mean not 100% of the world's population but a good chunk do. Follow-up with DC, SF, Chicago, Boston, Miami, and maybe the others (Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas).
No need, just look at any CvC thread and the subject immediately flows into NYC, LA, San Fran, Chicago, Miami, and DC. It's like the same topic over and over again.
There are 382 Metropolitan Statistical Areas. By 2020, there will be 55 or 56 of them that have populations of 1 million plus. Only 55 or 56, of 382...
It's fair to say that a city is a large city once it crosses 1,000,000 metro persons. That isn't a small place; there are literally hundreds of urban areas smaller than that coast to coast...
I'd rather just stick with that. There is a difference between "big" and "major". Few cities over 1 million are major cities, but any city with at least one million people metro is not a small city...
Just the city is an anchor. Albany NY is an anchor good or bad; Providence, Worcester and Manchester Kind of depend on Boston, it does come with economic advantages. I would say Springfield, MA even though it has a few big companies kind of depends on Hartford for employment.
So when I say big city Worcester or Providence are bigger than Albany but Albany is the hub of a region. Providence has its own metro but ehhhh.
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