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I am working on computing the 20 largest cities in California.

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EntityList[
 EntityClass["City", 
  List[Rule[EntityProperty["City", "AdministrativeDivision"], 
    Entity["AdministrativeDivision", 
     List["California", "UnitedStates"]]], 
   Rule[EntityProperty["City", "Population"], TakeLargest[20]]]]]

I do not understand what I am doing wrong here. Can someone help me figure this out?

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  • $\begingroup$ No specific answer here. Tried a few things. But here's an alternate solution (suggested by W|A queried for "cities in California"): GeoEntities[Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}], "City"] $\endgroup$
    – b3m2a1
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 4:16
  • $\begingroup$ I don't think you're doing anything wrong here, I think this might be a bug. $\endgroup$
    – Greg Hurst
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 13:39

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citiesCalifornia = 
  GeoEntities[
   Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"California", "UnitedStates"}], 
   "City"];

abc = EntityList[
   SortedEntityClass[citiesCalifornia, 
    "Population" -> "Descending"]][[1 ;; 20]]

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EDIT

After the comment by OP: I ran the same procedure on cities in Texas which on my machine [Win7/x64/8Gb/rot HD/ (old machine) Mma 12.2.0] took 85.4s for the first time the entities were being read. The second time around it took a few seconds.

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    $\begingroup$ GeoEntities takes a long to run. Absolute Timing for Texas which I'm also interested in returned 124.7 seconds. That is too long for one state if I am going to run my program over all 50 states. Maybe I could select only the cities in the UnitedStates and run the program on those? $\endgroup$
    – Peter Burbery
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 13:12
  • $\begingroup$ If it runs slowly the first time, we can conclude or surmise that it is busy retrieving data. If it runs slowly the second time, then I wouldn't know how to explain it. $\endgroup$
    – Syed
    Commented Dec 6, 2021 at 13:27

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