The largest city in the US is New York City, with 8.4M residents. Los Angeles (3.9M) and Chicago (2.7M) follow, and southern cities Houston (2.4M) and Phoenix (1.7M) round out the top five.

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Data is sourced from a study of US cities (292 in 2025, though the total increases each year) with populations greater than 100,000. Each city was ranked in four categories: Violent Crime Rate, …

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South America features several megacities, with Buenos Aires leading as the largest metropolitan area at 13.1M residents. Sao Paulo follows with 10M inhabitants, while Lima (7.7M) and Bogota (7.7M) …

To measure which cities in the United States are the poorest, data from the U.S. Census’s 2013-2017 American Community Survey was pulled. Three factors were considered: the number of residents …

New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago are easily the largest cities in the United States and, of these three, New York City is by far the largest, with approximately 8.6 million residents (Los Angeles and …

In order to determine the fattest cities in America, WalletHub compared 100 of the most populated metro areas using three dimensions: obesity and overweight, health consequences, and food and fitness.

The urban environment of Central America is characterized by several major metropolitan areas, with Mexico City standing as the region’s dominant megacity. Mexico City hosts an impressive 12.3M …

There are lots of cities in the United States where the majority of the population is black. It should come as no surprise that most of them are found in the South.