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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
What? Metropolitan Seattle is listed as $3.7M on wikipedia. City populations are irrelevant, you have to consider the full metropolitan area. Do you consider Vancouver to be 600,000?
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Depends on the definition and ranges used. Some US definitions use massive areas that are not used in Canada.
According to Wikipedia, Seattle Metro Area is 15,000 Km2. It includes places like Tacoma and Everett, both about an hour from downtown Seattle.
Calgary's metro area is listed at 5,000 km2. almost a third less in size.
As Hot_Flatus mentioned, it's not necessarily and apples to apples comparison.