Why isn't Albuquerque on the list of U.S. cities?

Question

Why does a reference to Albuquerque have to be lumped in Other?

In terms of pure population - Albuquerque metro is not in the top 50 -- however it is overwhelmingly the only city in New Mexico or for at least 6 hours in any direction. It seems reasonable to highlight at least one focal spot from each state especially out west where the distances are so great and populations so small (but interesting).

Answer 1

My guess is that the Yahoo Answers team selected a group of American cities that seem to draw the most questions - either ones that are highly populated or are highly traveled. If more people started asking questions about traveling to Albuquerque, perhaps the YahooAnswers team would give it its own city category, or perhaps make a general New Mexico or Southwest category.

Answer 2

Hate to break it to you, but the Albuquerque metro area isn't big enough to be listed. Albuquerque has a metro population of 781,447. The listed cities are all at least TWICE as big as Albuquerque, with the exception of Honolulu. Honolulu, however, is a bit bigger and a much more popular travel destination than Albuquerque. Following is the listed cities metro population. You can see that they are all bigger (in most cases, MUCH bigger) than Albuquerque.

Atlanta 4,708,297
Austin 1,412,271
Boston 4,424,649
Chicago 9,391,515
Cincinnati 2,058,221
Cleveland 2,137,073
Dallas 5,700,256
Denver 2,330,146
Detroit 4,493,165
Honolulu 899,593
Houston 5,180,443
Indianapolis 1,621,613
Kansas City 1,925,319
Las Vegas 1,650,671
Los Angeles 12,925,330
Miami 5,361,723
New Orleans 1,319,589
New York City 18,709,802
Orlando 1,861,707
Philadelphia 5,800,614
Phoenix 3,715,360
Portland 2,064,336
Sacramento 2,016,702
San Antonio 1,854,050
San Diego 2,931,714
San Francisco 4,153,870
San Jose 1,741,431
Seattle 3,166,828
St. Louis 2,764,054
Washington, D.C. 5,139,549

Also, if you were to argue for Albuquerque being on the list, Yahoo should include all of the following also (all bigger than Albuquerque).

Riverside 3,793,081
Minneapolis 3,116,206
Baltimore 2,639,213
Tampa 2,587,967
Pittsburgh 2,401,575
Columbus 1,693,906
Virginia Beach 1,644,250
Providence 1,628,808
Milwaukee 1,515,738
Charlotte 1,474,734
Nashville 1,395,879
Memphis 1,250,293
Jacksonville 1,225,381
Louisville 1,200,847
Hartford 1,184,564
Buffalo 1,154,378
Richmond 1,154,317
Oklahoma City 1,144,327
Birmingham 1,082,193
Rochester 1,041,499
Salt Lake City 1,018,826
Raleigh 914,680
Tucson 907,059
Bridgeport 903,291
Tulsa 881,815
Fresno 866,772
New Haven 845,694
Dayton 845,646
Albany 845,269
Omaha 803,801
Oxnard 797,699

Answer 3

Why not? I can ask the same about Menomonee Falls WI, Shaumburg IL or Chino, CA.

Answer 4

Not sure where you are looking, here is the web site for the office of Tourism in New Mexico.

http://www.newmexico.org/place/loc/directory/page/DB-place/place/1245.html

Answer 5

Only the major cities show up. I know this city only has about 100,000 people