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Originally Posted by xzmattzx
If a province (or state, or country) have a 1a and 1b, then there's no second city. Not every place has a second city.
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Absolutely, was just trying to see what it all looked like.
And even in places with second cities, it's possible for that role to mean less. As an example, I'll use the provinces of BC and Manitoba, both of which have clear second cities as well as dominant first cities that each hold over 50% of the provincial population. In BC, Victoria is a clear second city to Vancouver (metro pop. ~2.5 million), and has a metro population of ~375,000, so it has a decent bit of clout itself, being separated on an island, the provincial capital, and a significant tourism centre.
Conversely in Manitoba, Brandon is the clear second city to Winnipeg, but it only has a metro population of about 60,000 people and is only about a 2 hour drive away. So while it does serve as a regional centre in the western part of the province, its orbit is quite limited and it relies a fair bit on Winnipeg still, making it less of a true second influential option and more of the quantitative "second-most populated city" thing.