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Originally Posted by dave8721
Actually the 5000 sq mile area includes a good chunk of the Everglades. I'd say well over half of the area listed as Miami's metro in unihabited and uninhabitable (less than 30% of Miami-Dade's ~2000 sqmiles are inhabited for example). So the populated portion of Miami's metro is closer to 2000 sq miles than 5000 sqmiles.
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Oh, I know Dave. My point is that Miami is only able to sprawl north and south, which it most certainly is doing, and can't go east or west due to the ocean and the Everglades. 75% of metro Atlanta's 5.5 million people live in the core five or six counties (Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, etc), not the other 20+ that comprise the MSA and CSA. Of course I realize that central Miami is far more dense than central Atlanta.