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Hello Bethling. First of all, the city of Boston has 559,034 as stated on their page. Since the city of Boston only contains this number, this is the population they have, and the population, based on the city defined boundaries does not include all of the metro area. To include all of the metro area would mean including other cities than Boston in the equation, when those numbers do not belong to Boston. I will fix Austin, I just caught the mistake. Thanks.