That's a great notion - and even one I mostly agree with - BUT the undeniable fact is that the US doesn't currently use the Metric system to measure distances, and Americans think of distances in miles. I was born and raised in New York, and much of my family and many of my friends are still back in NY, and we always say, 'How are things 3,000 miles away?' We never say, 'How are things 4,800 kilometers away?'
Even if it is overdue for the USA to join the rest of the world, this quiz exists in the USA in 2018, and in 2018 the USA still thinks in terms of miles. Therefore, using the metric system shows a poor understanding of the USA.
Just because the country that the quiz is about uses a different system that doesn't mean not to use it shows a "poor understanding of the USA". If that were true then all the quizzes about France would have to be in French (otherwise it shows a poor understanding of France).
Some other countries still officially use the imperial system, including Liberia and Burma. The UK only adopted the metric system in 1965, but continues to use the imperial in common everyday contexts. And since this is an American quiz on an American website I support the usage of miles.
Same here, but I didn't understand the quiz at first and wasted time just typing cities, not realizing they were already filled in. Great quiz, though.
Did it the first try with 6 seconds to spare. It's not that hard if you have taken a lot of these city and population quizzes. It wouldn't be fun at all if there was an unchallenging time limit!
So what happen to San Jose? It's the Rodney Dangerfield of US cities. 10th most population in the US, but doesn't register on your quiz. Larger than that quaint little cable car town north of us. BLEH.
It's part of San Francisco's urban sprawl that just happens to have one area with a large imaginary line around it for people to write their property tax checks to random burb A instead of B. Wouldn't be much there without San Francisco first.
With Reynosa, Mexico right across the border it's well over a million. El Paso doesn't top 1,000,000 by itself either but Juarez is a large Mexican city 500 feet away. Buffalo without Niagara & Ste Catharines in Canada falls short as well.
Apparently now it does because they sometimes fold in Las Cruces, New Mexico, a city of 100,000 about 75 km of absolutely empty desert away. The way the U.S. works they throw in the whole county of far flung people, campers and jack rabbits too.
Yet El Paso and Juarez aren't considered one urban area with a tiny ditch passing for a river between them.....explain this one to the space station crew.
Just wanna say that salt lake city doesn't even have 200,00 people and with the areas around it still doesn't add up to 2.3 million like it says on the quiz...
Of all the complaints about city proper population being too small nobody even knows tiny Melbourne, Florida. The built-up area around there isn't much.
The United States Census Bureau records 450,000 in the actual urban area, about 2/5 what is listed and 600,000 in the "metropolitan area" which in the U.S. arbitrarily goes by extremely varying physical sizes of counties.
Didn't realize the timer was only 30 seconds so I was just taking my time and marveling at which cities were over 1 mil when I was shocked by the quiz over screen. Need to pay attention lol
Even if it is overdue for the USA to join the rest of the world, this quiz exists in the USA in 2018, and in 2018 the USA still thinks in terms of miles. Therefore, using the metric system shows a poor understanding of the USA.
Yet El Paso and Juarez aren't considered one urban area with a tiny ditch passing for a river between them.....explain this one to the space station crew.
The United States Census Bureau records 450,000 in the actual urban area, about 2/5 what is listed and 600,000 in the "metropolitan area" which in the U.S. arbitrarily goes by extremely varying physical sizes of counties.