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Biggest Cities in Michigan Quiz

Can you name the 20 biggest cities in Michigan by metro area population? As you guess each city, it will appear on the map.

Source: 2016 Census Estimates

Population is for the metro area, not city proper

Quiz by Quizmaster

Last updated: July 28, 2017

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Population	County	City
4,297,617	Wayne	Detroit
1,047,099	Kent	Grand Rapids
475,099	Ingham	Lansing
408,615	Genesee	Flint
364,709	Washtenaw	Ann Arbor
336,877	Kalamazoo	Kalamazoo
192,326	Saginaw	Saginaw
173,408	Muskegon	Muskegon
158,460	Jackson	Jackson
154,010	Berrien	Benton Harbor

Population	County	City
149,208	Monroe	Monroe
148,684	Grand Traverse	Traverse City
134,386	Calhoun	Battle Creek
115,548	Ottawa/Allegan	Holland
104,747	Bay	Bay City
98,504	Lenawee	Adrian
83,462	Midland	Midland
71,282	Isabella	Mount Pleasant
68,554	Shiawassee	Owosso
66,435	Marquette	Marquette

Quizmaster

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May 16, 2017

I redid this quiz to use metro areas instead of city proper populations. Otherwise, most of the answers are Detroit suburbs.

Jiaozira

level 58

Jul 27, 2017

I got two, Detroit and Flint, mostly because of the media. Map is very well done, hope to see more in this style.

SpacemanSpiff

level 56

Jul 27, 2017

Pfft. I live in Owosso, MI, and the only way you get 68,000 people is if you include the entire county which is mostly rural farm land.

Quizmaster

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Jul 27, 2017

I know. The "Micropolitan Statistical Area" is stupid in a lot of cases. But if we didn't use it, then cities like Traverse City wouldn't make the list. And if we went by city proper population, then the quiz would mostly be about Detroit suburbs.

someone2018

level 63

Jun 24, 2018

How about Urbanized Areas and Urban Clusters as defined by the US Census Bureau?

WolfCam

level 59

Jul 27, 2017

I have no important comments in particular to say about this quiz. I am not from Michigan nor have I any important Michigan stories.I went to the Detroit airport once, it was ok. Now you've wasted your time reading this comment when you could have been doing another quiz. Maybe one of mine, they're ok. Go do that instead of reading this time wasting comment. -Wolfcam

kalbahamut

level 75

Jul 27, 2017

Thanks for signing your comment. Otherwise we would have no way of knowing who left it.

WolfCam

level 59

Jul 31, 2017

I was gonna sign it Anonymous but then I was like... "I'm classier than that!"

Meds

level 43

Jul 27, 2017

Wow, that's a tricky quiz for non Americans...got 2/20...!

kalbahamut

level 75

Jul 27, 2017

Tricky for Americans, too.

Farmboybello

level 55

Jul 27, 2017

I live 45 mins from Kalamazoo and it is in the wrong county on this map. It needs to be moved 1 county to the south.

jonf

level 61

Jul 27, 2017

On the map, Kalamazoo shows up in the wrong county.

burtviile

level 81

Jul 27, 2017

Very insulting to put Kalamazoo in Barry County : )

Quizmaster

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Jul 28, 2017

Fixed, thanks!

meilankev

level 44

Jul 27, 2017

I got 7, which I am really happy with. I kept trying to spell Ypsilanti - thinking it was one of the top 20. I thought Flint was part of Detroit. The only other one I had heard of (that I didn't think to try) was Marquette.

ander217

level 75

Jul 27, 2017

Managed to get one of the lesser known ones because my husband was born there, and I have cousins living in three more. Thank you, family.

Coyuznik

level 75

Aug 2, 2017

Too lower peninsula specific.

twd4

level 32

Aug 5, 2017

having lived in Mt Pleasant my entire life im happy to see that it makes this list :)