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Originally Posted by jd3189
Is the Bay Area the only metro in the US or world in which the major city isn’t the largest in population? I can’t think of anywhere else with that dynamic.
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It's common for the major city to be a small fraction of the population, and then how that's apportioned around other municipalities may not be so important.
In the US, someone mentioned Hampton Roads. I think Cape Coral is also bigger than Ft. Myers. North Charleston is almost as big as Charleston, for example, and it wouldn't be surprising if it overtook Charleston. St. Louis County is bigger than St. Louis, although it's not a unified city I get the impression it sometimes kind of acts like one.
One notable global example is that Quezon City is bigger than Manila. New Taipei City is also bigger than Taipei.