{"id":32058,"date":"2016-04-22T03:13:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-22T10:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/?p=32058"},"modified":"2026-01-15T00:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:18:50","slug":"how-many-major-u-s-cities-can-you-fit-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/how-many-major-u-s-cities-can-you-fit-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"How Many Major U.S. Cities Can You Fit Inside Oklahoma City, Jacksonville or Houston?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a truism even a preschooler knows: we live in a really big country! The U.S. boast 3,535,932 square miles<\/a> of total land area and around 310 million residents. But these raw numbers seem quite abstract, when trying to understand and visualize what BIG<\/strong> actually means.\u00a0Most of us have a certain sense of the size, density, or importance of the cities we’re familiar with, but have a hard time visualizing\u00a0raw square miles. Some cities\u00a0are enormous in size, with fewer residents than you might think (e.g. Anaconda, MT<\/a> is huge, covering 736.5 square miles, but it’s home to only 9,300 people). Others accommodate cohorts of residents squeezed in tighter areas.<\/p>\n

To get a better grasp of the real size of some of the country’s largest metros, we’ve created some cool visualizations by cutting out the shapes of famous U.S. cities and superimposing them over the maps of 3 giants: Jacksonville<\/a>, Oklahoma City<\/a>, and Houston.<\/p>\n

How many major U.S. cities can fit inside these supersized metros? Take a look below and find out:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mapping Oklahoma City<\/h2>\n

The capital and largest city of the state of Oklahoma is the eighth-largest city in the U.S. by land area (607 square miles). It stretches over a bigger surface than LA, Chicago, or even Houston! It’s no wonder you could fit 7 other major cities inside its boundaries. Although Boston<\/a> and Washington have about the same number of residents as Oklahoma City, around 650,000, they seem tiny, taking up only a small percentage of its area. When comparing land areas, 26 Manhattans could fit in Oklahoma City! Still, Manhattan’s extreme upward development<\/a> has driven its population to 1.6 million, almost triple than Oklahoma’s.<\/p>\n

\"Mapping<\/a><\/p>\n

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