re: US States with Largest City < 100,000 people

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Now do the metro population of those cities.

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Correct. City population is worthless data. Columbus, for example, has annexed every piece of land it can manage to get its hands on and the city population is now at #14. Jacksonville too at #12- which implies that both cities are larger than San Francisco, Washington and Atlanta.

When you look at MSA you get a much better idea for how big an area is: (mentioned cities) #6 Washington, #9 Atlanta, #12 San Francisco.... #32 Columbus, #39 Jacksonville

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I live in the Cincinnati area and the population of Cincinnati is just a tad over 300K, but in the metro area, it is around 2.2 million, so only 13% of the metro lives IN Cincinnati, but the borders blur easily in this town.

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It's even weirder in border cities like Cinn (or Louisville, Kansas City, etc) where a decent chunk of the residents live across a state line.