Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
I decided to put this up because i feel as if many cities are not known about that are still very large. And in this thread i want cities that have populations of over 300,000 in city size, not metro area size. A few i have to go with are Omaha, NE, Wichita, KS and Tulsa, OK. Especially omaha with over 400, 000 people and hardly ever gets any national publicity. and wichita and tulsa have well over 350,000 people.
I don't know if this counts but if you combine the adjacent cities of Naperville and Aurora IL, you get the 300,000 count. Either one is considered an insignificant suburb of Chicago.
Of the cities City-Data lists as having a city-proper size over 300,000 the following strike me as being lesser known, but maybe not unknown. (I'm going from largest to smallest so the one's near the top I'm saying strike me as lesser known for their size)
Columbus, Ohio
Tucson, Arizona
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Omaha, Nebraska
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Arlington, Texas
Wichita, Kansas
Santa Ana, California
Bakersfield, California
Aurora, Colorado
Tulsa and Wichita might indeed be the least known, nationally, of those. Bakersfield I think is relatively unknown except in country music. Arlington and Aurora I think are counted as suburbs. The rest I think are somewhat more known.
Geographical or cultural distance from "media-centers" I would guess is influential in this. So the main thing I think would be distance from DC, LA, NYC, and Atlanta. Although that would not explain some Californian cities being relatively unknown. (Studies of media attention also state certain Californian cities getting little attention) This could perhaps be explained by the "cultural distance" from LA and that California is a large and mountainous state.
As the OP asked about cities "with city population over 300,000" than it would fit on that end. Do you think it's better known than the person indicated?
Considering its size I thought of adding it as relatively unknown, but maybe that's debatable.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
