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Article: THE BIG CITY Colorado Springs is as big as Miami, Boston, San Francisco and Minneapolis -- combined / But count the people, and it's only midsize
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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Whether you think Colorado Springs is a giant city or a town of
modest proportions, you're right.
Colorado Springs is huge if you consider only land area. The city
covered 185.7 square miles in 2000.
That ranked it No. 28 in the nation. The largest city by far was
Anchorage, Alaska, at 1,697.2 square miles, about nine times the size
of Colorado Springs.
Still, this town is a lot bigger by land area than many with
higher national profiles. Colorado Springs sprawls so far from
mountain to plain that it's the same size as Miami, Boston, San
Francisco and Minneapolis -- combined.
That sounds enormous, but try a few other comparisons and Colorado
Springs shrinks a bit. Consider:
Colorado ...