You may need to have your vision checked as you are seeing quadruple. Phoenix has less than 1.5 million people not 5 million
You may need to take your blinders off before commenting... When people comment about the size of Phoenix, they're usually commenting on the metropolis as a whole. Furthermore, As of the 2010 census, there were 4,192,887 people, 1,537,137 households, and 1,024,971 families residing within the Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), which is defined it as Maricopa and Pinal counties.