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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I saw this map today and it still blows my mind how large Oklahoma City is compared to other major cities!
You could fit: Philadelphia, Boston, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Manhattan, San Francisco and Miami inside OKC (with room to spare)! Oklahoma City legal boundaries covers over 650 square miles.

Down south, nothing but space, up north, old and compact. Manhattan isn't a city, it's part of New York City, and New York City is 300sqmi, so just under half the size of OKC. I'm surprised Miami isn't larger. I suspect it may have to do with the state govt. For instance, Houston is a bit larger than OKC. I know that Houston can "annex" land. This is an interesting link on Houston's history of annexation.
Houston is the 4th largest city in the country, and is only a little larger than OKC. Wikipedia says that OKC is only 620sqmi with ~680k folks.

https://www.houstontx.gov/planning/Annexation/docs_pdfs/HoustonAnnexationHistory.pdf

How Houston began, as 147 swampy acres at the confluence of 2 rivers. (green dot in the middle with current day street map overlayed.



20+ years ago, orange was 1990s houston, green is what was annexed in the decade after 2000.

Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation, with an estimated July 2018 population of 2,325,502 (trailing only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), and is the largest in the southern U.S. and Texas. Houston is expected to become the third most populous U.S. city during the second half of the decade of the 2020s.
The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) covers 9,444 square miles, an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts but larger than New Jersey.
Houston's size is 665 square miles

The Hagis gives Scots super human powers... Hagis is rich in vitamins and minerals and makes Scottish soldiers feared worldwide - The largest domesticated Scottish haggis herd to ever exist was raised in the town of Selkirk, nestled in the Scottish Borders their faces were much cherished for use as Sporans on Burns Night.

WTF?

^That^ is NOT haggis.

This is haggis


I was very bummed when I was in Aberdeen that I didn't manage to have any haggis.