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Originally Posted by edale
The large expanses around St. Louis surprise me. I assumed that rural Missouri would be similar to rural Ohio, which is basically all semi-populated as the Cleveland example shows. I know the Illinois side of the STL metro is a very strange, seemingly random low-density development pattern, which is shown pretty clearly on the map. But I didn't realize how truly rural and empty the area around STL is.
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The St. Louis CSA is about the same physical size as NEO which has 5 separate metropolitan areas within it and 3 Micropolitan areas with over 100k each, hence the difference once you get outside of St. Louis and Cleveland.