OK, i know everyone hates a know it all, but since i am from hawaii i am feeling slighted by the honolulu population figure. Since Honolulu is not really an incorporated city they use rough boundries that are universally accepted, and the population of the "city" was 395,00 in 1998. The metro region was 872,000 in '96. I feel bad when the error is more than half a million people. However i must give some credit to the article because it is very expensive to liver here.