What are your state's largest cities? (live in, estimates, suburbs)

[Rwarky]

What are the names and population figures of the largest cities or metropolitan regions (ranging from largest to smallest) in the state you currently live in?

[JMT]

Tennessee's 25 largest cities and their metropolitan areas (where applicable):

1. Memphis... 674,028 (MEMPHIS MSA)
2. Nashville... 590,807 (NASHVILLE MSA)
3. Knoxville... 183,546 (KNOXVILLE MSA)
4. Chattanooga... 169,884 (CHATTANOOGA MSA)
5. Clarksville... 119,284 (CLARKSVILLE MSA)
6. Murfreesboro... 98,406 (NASHVILLE MSA)
7. Jackson... 63,196 (JACKSON MSA)
8. Johnson City... 61,028 (JOHNSON CITY MSA)
9. Franklin... 57,380 (NASHVILLE MSA)
10. Bartlett... 47,603 (MEMPHIS MSA)
11. Hendersonville... 47,032 (NASHVILLE MSA)
12. Kingsport... 44,435 (KINGSPORT-BRISTOL MSA)
13. Cleveland... 39,190 (CLEVELAND MSA)
14. Collierville... 39,152 (MEMPHIS MSA)
15. Germantown... 37,317 (MEMPHIS MSA)
16. Smyrna... 36,582 (NASHVILLE MSA)
17. Brentwood... 35,058 (NASHVILLE MSA)
18. Columbia... 33,983 *
19. La Vergne... 29,038 (NASHVILLE MSA)
20. Cookeville... 28,901 *
21. Gallatin... 28,747 (NASHVILLE MSA)
22. Oak Ridge... 27,514 (KNOXVILLE MSA)
23. Morristown... 27,432 (MORRISTOWN MSA)
24. Maryville... 26,766 (KNOXVILLE MSA)
25. Bristol... 25,474 (KINGSPORT-BRISTOL MSA)

*Columbia and Cookeville are the only cities among Tennessee's 25 largest cities that don't belong to a MSA, although Columbia is included in Nashville's CSA.

Chattanooga, TN-GA Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 514,568

Clarksville, TN-KY Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 261,816

Cleveland, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 111,121

Jackson, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 112,660

Johnson City, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 193,554

Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 303,686

Knoxville, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 681,525

Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 1,280,533

Morristown, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 134,596

Nashville-Davidson—Murfreesboro—Franklin, TN Metropolitan Statistical Area
2007 metro population: 1,521,437

[northbound74]

1. Kansas City: pop. 441,545. MSA:1,842,965. Latest estimates done by the city put it around 510,000. The metro is believed to have passed 2 million earlier this year.
2. St. Louis: pop. 348,189 MSA: 2,803,024
3. Springfield: pop. 151,580 MSA: 368,374
4. Independence: pop. 113,228. It is the largest suburb of Kansas City on the Missouri side.
5. Columbia. pop. 84,531
6. St. Joseph. pop. 73,990 Also part of the KC area. Generally not considered a suburb, though.
7. Lee's Summit. pop. 70,700 Another KC suburb.

KC has fewer, but larger suburbs than St. Louis, which has a whole bunch of small suburbs.

[BacktoNE]

Maine:

Portland is the largest: 69,249
Lewiston: 35,690
Bangor: 31,473
Weston is the smallest organized town: 203

There are many unorganized towns with 100 or fewer people.

[missionhome]

Largest Cities in California:
(Using US census numbers instead of the 2008 California Department of Finance Values)
1. Los Angeles: 3,849,378
2. San Diego: 1,256,951
3. San Jose: 989,496
4. San Francisco: 764,976
5. Fresno: 470,508
6. Long Beach: 466,718 (part of LA metro)
7. Sacramento: 460,242
8. Oakland: 401,489 (part of SF metro)
9. Santa Ana: 339,555 (part of LA metro)
10. Anaheim: 333,249 (part of LA metro)

Largest Metro Areas in California:

1. Los Angeles Metro: 12,875,587
2. San Francisco/Oakland Metro: 4,203,898
3. Inland Empire/Riverside Metro: 4,081,371
4. San Diego Metro: 2,974,859
5. Sacramento Metro: 2,091,120
6. San Jose Metro: 1,803,643
7. Fresno Metro: 899,348
8. Ventura Metro: 798,364
9. Bakersfield Metro: 790,710
10. Stockton Metro: 670,990

[blueatari]

Greater St. Louis MO-IL - 2,866,517
Kansas City Metro MO-KS - 1,985,429
Springfield MSA - 420,020
Joplin MSA - 171,278
Columbia MSA - 162,314
Jefferson City MSA - 145,686

[SBCA]

All this information can be found EASILY on the internet.

[censusdata]

Louisville (city 557,000; metro 1.2 million)


Lexington (city 279,000; metro 450,000)


They are several cities with more people, but Covington and Newport have a decent skyline (both across from Cinci)
http://www.daniel-libeskind.com/typo3temp/pics/ca9d067aeb.jpg (broken link)

[SteelCityRising]

In Pennsylvania...

1. Philadelphia: 1,449,634
2. Pittsburgh: 311,218
3. Allentown: 107,117
4. Erie: 103,650
5. Reading: 80,769
6. Upper Darby Township: 78,733
7. Bethlehem: 72,531
8. Scranton: 72,485
9. Bensalem Township: 58,372
10. Lower Merion Township: 57,555
11. Lancaster: 54,672
12. Abington Township: 54,231
13. Bristol Township: 53,901
14. Haverford Township: 48,161
15. Harrisburg: 47,196
16. Middletown Township: 46,868
17. Lower Paxton Township: 45,221
18. Wilkes-Barre: 41,069
19. York: 40,226

[Raphael07]

1. Omaha-432,921 (Omaha-Council Bluffs MSA, Omaha-Fremont CSA)


Lincoln-248,744 (Lincoln MSA)


3. Bellevue-47,594 (Omaha MSA, Omaha-Fremont CSA)

4. Grand Island-44,632 (Grand Island Micropolitian Area, Tri Cities CSA)

5. Kearney- 29,385 (Kearney Micro, Tri Cities CSA)

6. Fremont- 25,417 (Fremont Micro, Omaha-Fremont CSA)

7. Hastings- 25,144 (Hastings Micro, Tri Cities CSA)

8. North Platte- 24,386 ( North Platte Micro)

9. Norfolk- 23,896 (Norfolk Micro)

10. Papillion- 22,872 (Omaha Metro)

11. Columbus- 21,414 (Columbus Micro)

12. La Vista- 16,041 (Omaha Metro)

13. Scottsbluff- 14,738 (Scottsbluff-Gering Micro)

14. Beatrice- 12,921 (Beatrice Micro)

15. South Sioux City- 12,137 (Sioux City Metro)

16. Lexington- 10,251 (Lexington Micro)


Metros and Micros

1. Omaha Metro- 829,890

2. Lincoln Metro- 292,219

3. Sioux City Metro- 143,474

4. Grand Island Micro- 70,245

5. Kearney Micro- 50,655

6. Norfolk Micro- 49,413

7. Hastings Micro- 39,749

8. Scottsbluff-Gering Micro- 37,329

9. North Platte Micro- 37,111

10. Fremont Micro- 36,171

11. Columbus Micro- 31,962

12. Lexington Micro- 26,996

13. Beatrice Micro- 23,365


CSAs

Omaha-Fremont CSA- 866,861

Tri Cities CSA 160,649