Tri Cities metro areas in the US (island, population)

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Oh really?

Denton County by itself is almost 700,000 people. Denton city proper is between 115-120K. Its the same distance from Dallas to Denton as it is from Dallas to Fort Worth. Denton serves as the "northern star" in the D/FW Metroplex.

The more you know...

Denton is about the tenth biggest city in the Dallas metroplex, and Arlington is more than three times as big.

[Metro Matt]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Denton is about the tenth biggest city in the Dallas metroplex, and Arlington is more than three times as big.

Arlington is a suburb of Fort Worth, Denton is its own city & is the principal city of Denton County.

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by Metro Matt

Arlington is a suburb of Fort Worth, Denton is its own city & is the principal city of Denton County.

Come on. You wouldn't call San Francisco - Oakland - Vallejo the "Tri cities" just because Vallejo is it's own city and has 115,000 and is the largest city in Solano County.

[kidphilly]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Come on. You wouldn't call San Francisco - Oakland - Vallejo the "Tri cities" just because Vallejo is it's own city and has 115,000 and is the largest city in Solano County.

Its now the DFWD Metroplex

[creeksitter]

Bristol TN and VA are the same city - The state line goes right through the middle of downtown. They are 2 cities in name and government only.

So there is a tri-cities in Washington. Well I guess if there are 2 Portlands and 2Wilmingtons there might as well be 2 Tri-Cities.

[just_sayin']

NC has two metro areas with 3 anchor cities and "three" terminology embedded in their names:

"The Triangle": Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill

"The Triad": Greensboro/Winston-Salem/ High Point

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Deezus

You can find a lot of smaller metros with three sizable towns, but Lacey and Tumwater are just adjacent suburbs of Olympia--it's clear that Olympia is the anchor city of the region.
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Tumwater is older than Olympia, a.k.a not a suburb. Lacey will soon be larger in population than Olympia and will be much, much larger in a decade or two.

[jtur88]

Saginaw/Bay City/Midland, Michigan. All have a population in the 33-55K range, inside a 25 mile circle.

There are three airports officially named Tri Cities airport. The one in Pasco, Washington, and the one in northeast Tennessee, referred to above, and a third one at Endicott, New York, which was established in the 1930s to serve Endicott, Johnson City and Binghamton...

[kyle19125]

Tampa-St Petersburg-Clearwater, otherwise known as the Tampa Bay area collectively (the 18th largest metro area in the US).

[rnc2mbfl]

Tampa, St Pete, Sarasota