Least dense official metropolitan area?
This other thread ( Waning for decades, England’s big cities are growing fast again) got me thinking about how metros are counted differently in different countries, which lead me to the two questions:
1. Which is the least dense officially designated metro area?
2. Which is the least dense officially designated metro area with over a million residents?
By "official" I mean that it has to have either a metro-area governing body or be designated as such by national authorities.
For starters metro Stockholm (my city), official metro being defined as the whole of Stockholm's County:
322 ppl/sqkm!
/source: wiki for the land area, Statistics Sweden www.scb.se for pop number from 2012-03-31
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EDIT:
List time! Cities/metro specifically mentioned so far (40 first posts) in the thread. 'cept for Chicago - couldn't find the MSA data!
metros over 1M
Code:
Metro | density (per sqkm) | metro population
Oklahoma City 80.1 1 252 987
Phoenix 111.08 4 192 887
St. Louis 131.47 2 812 896
Jacksonville 153 1 345 596
Bordeaux 199 1 114 857
Toulouse 226 1 218 166
Atlanta 243 5 300 000
Miami 315 5 564 635
Stockholm 322 2 099 619
Boston 366 4 522 858
LA 1 024.7 12 828 837
metros under 1M
Code:
Metro | density (per sqkm) | metro population
Flagstaff 2.7 134 421
Anchorage 7 380 821
Tuscon 41.2 980 263
yeah, I know km ain't what most Americans use. But it's about time you learned!
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Last edited by Swede; Aug 3, 2012 at 6:32 PM.
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