is detroit a large or medium size city (Warren, Flint: move, land)

[arimor]

i like to know how how big is detroit in size! every time i ask someone thery always say it use to be the 4th largest city but people have and what not. but if a city is large its not gonna shrink regardless how many people leave its gonna stay the same size.

is it big as chicago in land size(not population) or smaller

[Mkach]

Land area: 138.8 square miles for Detroit
Land area: 227.1 square miles for Chicago

[Coldjensens]

The population is about 890,000. The City used to hold 2 million, and it is still the same size.

[mojack]

If you count the entire metro area, it's huge. Not as big as Chicago, but damned big. I think the area has about 3-4 million people.

[sugarbeet]

The Census Bureau's 2006 estimate placed the population of the Detroit-Warren-Flint CSA (9 Counties) at 5,410,014. This CSA covers 5,814 square miles (15,058.1 km²) in area.

This makes it the 12th largest in the country. When you hear population figures and rankings, typically they are referring to a Census statistical area rather than an individual city.

[detroit_zek]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

The population is about 890,000. The City used to hold 2 million, and it is still the same size.

the population is goin back up, they had made a mistake! it over 900 thousand....its pprolly more than a million because i dont believe they counted the crackheads and alot of southern people have moved up here lately cause of the water problems down south

[Bluefly]

It's now the 11th largest city in the country.

When they say it's shrinking, they don't mean land. They mean population.

[huckster]

detroit metro area is 6 million area , detroit proper is only 950,000.

Originally Posted by arimor

i like to know how how big is detroit in size! every time i ask someone thery always say it use to be the 4th largest city but people have and what not. but if a city is large its not gonna shrink regardless how many people leave its gonna stay the same size.

is it big as chicago in land size(not population) or smaller

[Chicago60614]

Originally Posted by detroit_zek

the population is goin back up, they had made a mistake! it over 900 thousand....its pprolly more than a million because i dont believe they counted the crackheads and alot of southern people have moved up here lately cause of the water problems down south

Did it actually increase? I thought it was just decreasing slower than they'd thought. 951K in 2000 and 918K today.

[arimor]

Originally Posted by Bluefly

It's now the 11th largest city in the country.

When they say it's shrinking, they don't mean land. They mean population.

so why do they determine a city size based on the pop. of the city and not the land size thats why i was always confuse when people say it was the top 5 largest cities in the states when the population was going down they should at least clarify what they are talking about