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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Smaller city populations/coordinates: GIS data
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:59:50 GMT
From: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
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Hmm..that's just for the USA, no?
Another source just for the USA is:
http://www.census.gov/tiger/tms/gazetteer/places2k.txt
Which raises an interesting question -- which is the "biggest little city in the world?"
Alas, Reno doesn't qualify even for Nevada. Boulder City, NV has a smaller population and larger land area.
It looks to me that the biggest little city in the USA is Sitka, AK.
(pop. 8835, land area just under 2874 sq. mi.; if you include water area, it's over 4811 sq. mi.)
Does the patron require "cities" only, or do other designations qualify (borough, town, village, CDP, etc.) -- that might be difficult when considering other languages, legal structures, etc.
Joe McCollum
FIA
Knoxville TN
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