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Places with prefixed names that are bigger than their non-prefixed counterparts

Started by KCRoadFan, March 18, 2024, 04:04:55 PM

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KCRoadFan

Palm Beach, Florida, is home to a little over 9,000 people. West Palm Beach, on the other hand, has a population of about 117,000 - in other words, about 13 times as big.

Throughout the country, what are some other examples of cities or towns that have a prefix in their name, based on a nearby "non-prefixed" town name - but the town with the prefix is larger, as it is with WPB?


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JayhawkCO

York, England has 141,685 people
New York, NY has 8.335 million people

About 59x bigger.




kphoger

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7/8

North Battleford, SK = population 13 836 (2021 census)
Battleford, SK = population 4400 (2021 census)

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miclugo

In New Jersey:

Orange (34,447) vs both East Orange (69,612) and West Orange (48,843).  (South Orange has 18,484.)
Caldwell (9,027) vs West Caldwell (11,012). (North Caldwell has 6,694.)

Other candidates include the Plainfields, Brunswicks, Amboys, and Wildwoods, but none of those work.

In Pennsylvania, Darby (9,264) and Upper Darby (85,681).   I thought there'd be more here but generally townships in the Philadelphia suburbs come in pairs where both have prefixes, like  "Lower Merion" and "Upper Merion".

kphoger

Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

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JayhawkCO

Quote from: JayhawkCO on March 18, 2024, 04:43:43 PM
York, England has 141,685 people
New York, NY has 8.335 million people

About 59x bigger.

Quote from: kphoger on March 19, 2024, 11:34:25 AM
Quote from: miclugo on March 19, 2024, 10:51:26 AM
In New Jersey

9,200,000 = New Jersey
103,000 = Jersey

89:1

York, England has 141,685 people
New York (State) has 19.84 million people

140:1

kphoger

Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

NWI_Irish96

Indiana: counties 100%, highways 100%
Illinois: counties 100%, highways 61%
Michigan: counties 100%, highways 56%
Wisconsin: counties 86%, highways 23%

JayhawkCO

Quote from: kphoger on March 19, 2024, 12:15:09 PM
181.7 million = Central America
341.3 million = America

:-D

Alas, this is the opposite of the OPs intention. The prefixed version should have more than the non-affixed.

kphoger

Aw, crap.  South America, then.  Population 441.9 million.  "It's like America, but South."
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

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Dirt Roads

West Virginia only has one such pair, and they are not related to each other.  Bonus!  Both are county seats.

  • West Union, Doddridge County (633)
  • Union, Monroe County (408)

North Carolina has two such pairs.  North Topsail and Topsail are intriguing, as they are in adjacent counties but at the opposite ends of the same barrier island.

  • East Flat Rock, Henderson County (5,760)
  • Flat Rock, Henderson County (3,576)

  • North Topsail Beach, Onslow County (1,058)
  • Topsail Beach, Pender County (517)
*2024 estimates

kphoger

In case anyone is wondering, both Hampshire (Ceremonial county of England) and New Hampshire have a population of approximately 1.4 million.




3.35 million = Mongolia
24.0 million = Inner Mongolia
Keep right except to pass.  Yes.  You.
Visit scenic Orleans County, NY!
Male pronouns, please.

Quote from: Philip K. DickIf you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.

JayhawkCO

There are no examples in Colorado. The only cities that begin with the common prefix names (cardinal directions, "new", etc.) are South Fork, New Castle, and Westminster. There is no Fork, Castle, or Minster.



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