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Consider the following code that generates an entity association for the top ten most populous cities in WV:

TakeLargest[EntityValue[GeoEntities[
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"WestVirginia", "UnitedStates"}],"City"],
"Population", "EntityAssociation"], 10]

With output:

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Cumberland is near the border of WV but is in Maryland. The question I have is how to manually get the correct results in spite of the apparent bug?

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  • $\begingroup$ What is the question about Wolfram Language programming? $\endgroup$
    – rhermans
    Nov 16, 2022 at 17:38
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    $\begingroup$ Similar to this. $\endgroup$
    – Syed
    Nov 16, 2022 at 17:42
  • $\begingroup$ As shown in the link provided by @Syed, use the option "FullyContained" -> True in GeoEntities $\endgroup$
    – Bob Hanlon
    Nov 16, 2022 at 18:41

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(* "13.1.0 for Mac OS X x86 (64-bit) (June 16, 2022)" *)

Clear["Global`*"]

wva = Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"WestVirginia", "UnitedStates"}];

list1 = TakeLargest[
  EntityValue[GeoEntities[wva, "City"], "Population", "EntityAssociation"], 
  10]

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Excluding border cities that "spill into" WVA

list2 = Pick[
  list1, #[[1]]["AdministrativeDivision"] === wva & /@ (list1 // Normal)]

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Using the option "FullyContained"->True excludes border cities that "spill into" WVA; however, it also excludes border cities that "spill out" of WVA

list3 = TakeLargest[
  EntityValue[GeoEntities[wva, "City", "FullyContained" -> True], 
   "Population", "EntityAssociation"], 10]

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Items from list2 that are excluded from list3, i.e., "spilled out"

Complement[list2, list3]

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Taking top ten from combined list2 and list3

list4 = Join[list2, list3][[;; 10]]

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  • $\begingroup$ @ Bob Hanlon I tried "FullyContained"-> True and lost Wheeling, Huntington, and Weirton as you did. Your explanation of spilling into and out of WV was great. $\endgroup$
    – JEM
    Nov 16, 2022 at 21:57

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