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Test your knowledge of the largest urban areas in the US with this interactive quiz. Choose the number of urban areas and try to achieve the highest population.

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US Largest Urban Areas

Directions

First choose the number of urban areas by typing ‘100’, ‘250’, or ‘all’ – then try to achieve the highest population among that many of the US 50K+ population urban areas (as defined by the US Census Bureau). Urban areas are typically named after the largest city of the area, I allow the 2nd largest as an option for the few urban areas named after multiple cities. For a handful, the name of the urban area may be a CDP or other unincorporated community.

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gabagoolmoder

8 months ago

a quiz with all urban areas in the us (regardless of population) would also be fun!

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darin

8 months ago

Reply to gabagoolmoder

Per the census definitions, here are three metro/urban areas type quizzes:
https://hugequiz.com/quizzes/us-metropolitan-statistical-areas/
https://hugequiz.com/quizzes/us-micropolitan-statistical-areas/
https://hugequiz.com/quizzes/us-combined-statistical-areas/

Organist45

10 months ago

It would be neat if we could select a specific amount of metro areas like you can with cities with the two hashtags. Like in the US Largest Cities, if you want 347 cities, you’d type #347#. I’d love it if we could do that here.

SoulinaBowl

11 years ago

I had no idea that Concord (and basically the rest of Contra Costa County) was considered its own urban area. I always assumed we were part of the SF-Oakland UA.