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Old Apr 16, 2016 | 10:26 am
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Originally Posted by kale73
Metro PHX population is smaller by about 2.5 million. In terms of area, metro PHX is about 14.5K square miles compared to metro DFW's ~9.3K. I guess that's why Dallas always seems more "crowded" to me than Phoenix - it literally is....
The "effective" Phoenix metropolitan area--where people actually live--is much smaller that DFW's:

The Office of Management and Budget defines a metropolitan area as the core city plus its county and any nearby counties that are economically dependent on the core city. However, Arizona has relatively large counties and a harsh, rugged desert landscape. For these reasons, much of the land that is part of the Metropolitan Statistical Area is rural or completely uninhabited. The core part of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area is the Phoenix–Mesa, Arizona Urban Area, which is far smaller than the Metropolitan Statistical Area.[7]
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