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Originally Posted by Jay Random
You're looking at the city proper population, which means nothing in the U.S.
The Salt Lake City metropolitan area had a population of over 1.2 million as of the 2020 census. That includes only two counties, and leaves out Provo, Orem, Ogden, and a number of smaller towns and suburbs that are part of the SLC market.
The Salt Lake City–Provo–Ogden Combined Statistical Area contains all of the above (plus some large rural areas), and had a population of 2.7 million according to the same 2020 census.
It's a substantially larger metro area than Calgary, but much more spread out.
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Still that's pretty a small population to support NHL and NBA side by side. I think Minneapolis/St Paul is the smallest city to have both and it's close to 4 million metro.