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Originally Posted by iheartthed
If Detroit absorbed only the suburbs that directly border it, the city would have a population of 1.25 million and be back in the top 10. Detroit would then have a population count similar to Dallas, but in an area only 80% the size of it.
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That's interesting. I'd love to see what a largest cities list would look like if we took a 300 sq mi land area (what NYC is), and applied the measure uniformly to all cities. Then do it with 400, 500, 600 sq mi areas... and decrease it down to 200, 100...