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As you can see by this map, Pittsburgh is all suburbs compared to to the percentage of land versus metro. That is why our seemingly small city proper population is misleading. Pittsburgh's city proper population is around 15% of it's metropolitan area population. This may be around the lowest percentage of all major cities. Jacksonville, FL on the other hand has a city proper population of greater than 80% of it's metro. So, on paper, Jacksonville looks like a larger metro area. It is not. Pittsburgh is much larger with over 2 million people. There are towns and municipalities close to Downtown that are not even considered city proper. They are their own municipalites despite looking and feeling like Pittsburgh.
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