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April 5 2007: 10:02 AM EDT. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Atlanta has been the fastest growing metropolitan area in the nation since 2000, with a gain of nearly 900,000 residents to 5.1 million. Also gaining more than 800,000 residents in the five-year Census Bureau report were Dallas/Ft. Worth and Houston. Phoenix gained nearly 790,000.
(Related: Click here to see the fastest-growing cities in the nation. Charleston, the capital and largest city in West Virginia, has been shrinking for almost five decades. The stateâs largest industry, coal, has experienced year after year of waning demand. But No. 1 on this list of fastest-shrinking cities in the United States isnât shrinking for either of those reasons. While many of the cities on the list fall in the Rust Belt and coal-mining regions, this yearâs list offers a greater geographic mix than last yearâs, which almost exclusively comprised cities in Michigan and Ohio.