U.S. Cities by Letter - D-E

The third most populous Texas city is known for its NFL franchise and their 8 Super Bowl wins.

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“The Mile High City” is the most populous in Colorado.

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This Texas city lies across the Rio Grande from Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Its name can be translated from Spanish as either “the pass” or “the step.”

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The most populous city in Michigan is known for its place in automotive history and for the Motown sound.

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The fourth most populous North Carolina city is home to Duke University and has a name that is a homophone of a class of wheat.

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The capital and most populous city of Iowa. Its name means “of the monks” in French.

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The second largest city in Oregon is home to both the University of Oregon and Bushnell University. It shares its name with the nerdy character in the musical Grease.

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The name of this California city sounds like it refers to a small wood where wapiti gather.

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This Texas city is home to the University of North Texas. Its name has two syllables. The first is also a word that means “a wild animal's lair or habitation.” The second syllable looks like a unit of weight.

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The name of this San Diego area city in California means “hidden” in Spanish.

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Ohio’s sixth largest city is where the Wright brothers built their Wright Flyer airplane, although they flew it in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

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The fourth most populous city in New Jersey shares its name with two British queens regnant.

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Healthcare, finance, and education are the largest industry sectors for the third largest city of Indiana.

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The sixth largest Illinois city shares the spelling of its name (but not the pronunciation) with a former cathedral city in Moray, Scotland.

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The Boeing 767 was built in Washington’s seventh most populous city. The city’s name was also the given name of the late Senator Dirksen (d. 1969) from Illinois.

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This California city was the birthplace of the Apollo space program. It shares its name with an actor who has played the role of Iron Man in several films.

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Henry Ford established the world headquarters of the Ford Motor Company in this Michigan city.

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This New Jersey township is named after its most famous resident, who lived in the township’s Menlo Park section. Any light bulbs going on in your head?

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The name of this Florida city sounds like a nickname for “David.”

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The name of this California city, at the end of the Santa Fe Trail, means “the hill” in Spanish.

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Although it has lost the acute accent over its “o,” the name of this California city means “the box” in Spanish, a reference to the boxed-in nature of the valley in which the city sits.

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If you add an “h” to the end of this Texas city’s name, it will look like the capital of Scotland.

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The third largest city of Iowa. Its name sounds like an article of furniture: either a compact desk or a type of sofa.

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The first word in this California city’s name is a homophone for a word that means “every day.” The second word confirms what type of place it is.

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