Highest Cities in the USA

I live in Prescott, AZ. Population is only 39,984 - Jul 2011 Source: U.S. Census Bureau

There are about 40,000 people in the city of Prescott and about 40,000 in Prescott Valley, the two largest cities in the "metro area." Chino Valley, the third largest city in the area has 11,000 people. I'd like to know where the other 100,000 people live.

I'm questioning the population given in this quiz. It states that Prescott, AZ has a population of 215,133 and that is a lot more than 100,00. I'm not arguing that the "metro area" is close to 100,000.

They do. For example, New Mexico counties are used in whole as a "metropolitan" area including vast stretches of nothing. Put that same land area in Pennsylvania and you have 8 metro areas, again defined by willy nilly county lines, but at least with a pretty much continuous semi-suburban spread of people. The "metropolitan" guidelines used by the U.S. Census Bureau do deliver thoroughly varying boundaries for the size of land around a city to be included in the population count. It's like they let Wikipedia write the tables.

Only 40% of people know Santa Fe is the highest city in the US? Must be because most people think New Mexico is a foreign country. ;-)

I lived in Las Vegas, New Mexico and I never knew Santa Fe was the highest city. I bet most people don't know that Las Vegas, New Mexico is the original Las Vegas (if they've even heard of Las Vegas, New Mexico).

Well, it's "metro area", so who knows what all is being counted? What I am really trying to figure out though, is how Boulder even supposedly *has* a "metro area". Broomfield is its own county, so that can't count. No way could you include Longmont. All I can imagine is Louisville, Lafayette, Ned, Niwot, Jamestown, and Lyons, and there's no way those TRIPLE the population. I'm guessing that the whole 36 corridor is being included in BOTH Denver's *and* Boulder's count. In fact, Boulder itself is usually included as part of metro Denver, much to the eternal chagrin of us Boulderites.

They use counties. The county line is just to the south, which becomes the Denver metropolitan area at the imaginary line in the carpet of development. Meanwhile across the county, the "metropolitan area" line runs clean through the city of Longmont. All across the city, Boulder "metropolitan area" neighbors live next door to their Greeley "metropolitan area" neighbors, none of whom live near either city. The southern part of Greeley's county, its "metropolitan area", includes direct suburbs of Denver, including a part of Thornton. So yeah, the population count is b.s. random in the real world, but not a bureaucratic statistician's mind.

i got colorado springs and denver. that is it.

pretty difficult for a non american. I only manage to get 10 (not too bad for a French) , which were obviously the biggest ones...

US "metropolitan areas" just gobble up numerous whole counties, which have wildly varying sizes, not an accurate gauge of metropolitan population for smaller cities at all.

I only got 29 of 35 before I ran out of time and beat 99.2% of people? That's a peculiar statistic.