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Originally Posted by hudkina

It would probably make more sense to include Micropolitan Areas. For example, using Census 2000 data, the 21 Metropolitan Areas within 150 miles of Detroit had 12.977,281, but when you include the 28 Micropolitan Areas within 150 miles of Detroit you get a population of 14,683,009. Granted, that doesn't include the Canadian side which would add another 1.2 million to the total with the likes of London (502,455--includes Oxford County), Windsor (374,975), Sarnia (126,971), Chatham-Kent (107,709), and Woodstock (81,553). That would bring the grand total to 15,876,672.

I understand. But I didn't do this overnight. When I first started, I started comparing the 13 largest to the MSAs over 1 million. But that was leaving out to much population - so I expanded it to include all 366.

But point taken. I was surprised by Detroit. It gets beat up on this forum so much.