Farthest area between cities without leaving city limits

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by Joakim3

Houston is almost 44 miles wide at its widest E-W administrative limits on the 10

For context on how large this is, as the crow flies downtown Baltimore & DC are 35 miles away from each other.

Damn. Boston is like 4 miles East-West.

[MeesterJ]

maybe it's better to talk about metro or urban area distances, because these city distances are ridiculous. Jacksonville is not even an big city compared to most of the others discussed here. We can draw city limits everywhere we want in arbitrary places, but people only notice the (continuous) build up areas.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by MeesterJ

maybe it's better to talk about metro or urban area distances, because these city distances are ridiculous. Jacksonville is not even an big city compared to most of the others discussed here. We can draw city limits everywhere we want in arbitrary places, but people only notice the (continuous) build up areas.

The problem is that the urbanized area boundaries are often even fuzzier than the city limits are. That would make drawing a straight line from one end or corner to another.

[Ben Around]

Originally Posted by Apparel

Thanks for posting the distance

Silly me, I just read the OP's instructions and looked at his first few posts for examples and followed them.

[Lillie767]

Originally Posted by walker1962

Someone posted that Los Angeles has a 45.14 mile north to south city limits distance which implies it is wider than Houston.

What's interesting is L.A. City limits covers 503 square miles but Houston is over 650 square miles.

Someone else said Houston at its longest is 44 miles.

So L.A. is longer but not as wide as Houston?

As Melanie sang in Psychotherapy:

"A thing is a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide
As the id goes marching on"

https://genius.com/Melanie-psychotherapy-lyrics

Says a lot about LA.