What city is the fourth most populous in the us?

Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation, it goes after New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. In the southern states and Texas it is the largest one. According to the Census Bureau of the United States, Houston had a population of 2.2 million people in 2014. The history of the city begins in 1836, and the population mark of 2.396 people is dated 1850.

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Shrinivasan Sundararaghavan

A little tricky with Chicago and Philadelphia on either side, i.e., at rank 3 and rank 5.

James Poli

Nice

James Poli

The answer didn't include the number of debutantes in Houston of which I understand there to be plenty.

Ray Metoyer

This is a trickier question than at first glance. Today city limits and boundaries are almost non existent and we look more at the population of the entire metro area. FYI, If we look at metro areas, Dallas is number 4 (because of Dallas/Fort Worth) and Houston drops to 6th. Neither of them comes close to the size of metro Chicago, which is over 9 million. Yeah I know the question said "4th largest city"; I'm just saying today cities are more often defined by their metro populations. BTW, I got it right! ;-)

Junia Marie Maxine Sonier

I love it and Happy to be here. In Houston born and raised.

Kevin Cochrane

I've been to Houston twice. It was hot and humid and dirty. The people driving acted a bit aggressive and it was overpriced. But there were some good restaraubts and like all city's the more money you have to spend the better the expirience. One plus it's not too far from the gulf but when I went in the water small globs of crude oil stuck to my legs.!!!