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Originally Posted by flameswin
Wikipedia has three population listings for them, usually you only see two.
Independent City: 248k
Urban: 1.047m
Metro: 1.67m
Looks like a beautiful city from the Wikipedia pics. Either way, it looks like that typical American thing where there's a bunch of small cities close together and they call it a "metro area" and give it some huge population. Actual Norfolk appears to be about 248k.
I get taking in smaller outlying communities and calling it metro like we do here in Canada quite often, but they seem to take that to the extreme in lots of places in the States.
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Interesting, thanks.
I've never been down there but read that many of these townships etc. combine is as a result of sprawl along highway systems. Growth is larger around the main highways and so that's how these cities expand and connect.