Question

While New York City's population is more than twice as large as the 2nd largest American city, Los Angeles, which statement best explains why the United States does NOT have a primate city?

Answer 1

This is because despite being the largest city in the country, New York City only has around 6% of the total U.S. population when its metropolitan area is taken into account.

A primate city, on the contrary, is a city that has 20%, 30% or even 40% of the total population of the country, regardless of how much larger it is than the second city.