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Originally Posted by PhillyRising
...and Phoenix and San Antonio aren't as big as Philadelphia.
If Philadelphia has the same land mass as those two cities, Philly's population would be well over 2 million because it would have to eat up a large chunk of the suburbs.
In terms of square miles, Philadelphia is by far the smallest city of the top 10.
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Well, not yet. Metro Phila. is significantly larger than Metro Phoenix, however Metro Phoenix gained the second most residents behind DFW and the City of Phoenix gained the most residents from 2017-2018. Phoenix will pass up Boston by the 2020 census and it appears that Atlanta will pass up Philadelphia.
2018 Estimates:
8 Philadelphia MSA: 6,096,372 -- +2.20%
9 Atlanta MSA: 5,949,951 -- +12.55%
10 Boston MSA: 4,875,390 -- +7.09%
11 Phoenix MSA: 4,857,962 -- +15.86%
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24 San Antonio MSA: 2,518,036 -- +17.53%
San Antonio will probably pass up St. Louis and Baltimore in the mid 2020s.