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Columbus population is larger than Cincinnati or Cleveland. Not sure why you think it's smaller.
Since we are talking county and not city, metro area must be accounted for. L.A.'s metro area is actually far larger than L.A. county, but that's another issue.
Cleveland metro area: 3.7 million people Cincy metro area: 2.2 million people Columbus metro area: 2.1 million people.
I admit that was more people than I realized, but it's definitely not larger.
Cleveland-Akron-Canton metropolitan statistical area is 3.7 million, Columbus metro stat area is 2.1 million. Cleveland proper is only 362K while Columbus proper is 913K. Direct size comparisons of "cities" almost always are dependent upon arbitrary border definitions.
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Jacksonville is Florida's most populous city. The Nashville metro area has more than double the population of San Francisco. When people talk about cities in contexts like this, they usually account for the adjacent suburbs as well, which usually has a lot more of the people. The cities may have the center and the commerce, but arbitrary lines separating it from other cities don't mean the area is any bigger or smaller.
This is also why the above map is based on LA County and not the City of Los Angeles, because LA County is full of small ~100k population cities that make up the larger Los Angeles area. This is also part of the challenge in larger efforts to improve LA's urban design, as every couple of miles you have an entirely different city government to work with