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Tuesday, November 8

A Plethora of City Data

I think it was Terese who asked me what the population of Sacramento is. My original guess of 750,000 was met with her comment of "oh, same as San Francisco." So I lowered the bar, thinking that perhaps 500,000 was more realistic. The correct answer?

407,018

Lifehacker clued me in to city-data.com today, where they've "collected and analyzed data from numerous sources to create as complete and interesting profiles of all U.S. cities" as they could.

I've been poking around for a couple minutes, looks pretty comprehensive. They are offering 5 $200 prizes for submitting photos of cities, what are you waiting for?

posted by Brad at 11/08/2005 07:13:00 PM | permalink | 2 comments

2 Comments:

  • I heart www.bestplaces.org - it seems similarish...

    By Blogger Laura, at 11/09/2005 12:59 PM 

  • I really wish these sites would post things based on "metro areas" rather than individual cities. I heard that the 3 least diverse cities in the nation are 1) Pittsburgh 2) Boston 3) MSP But this site gives me a bunch of small crappy towns which are not good trivia items... Bestplaces does the same thing :(

    By Blogger Laura, at 11/09/2005 1:02 PM 

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