Biggest City in each U.S. State

what about adding a map?

Memphis is the most populated city in Tennessee. Nashville isn't.

I had to research this for my state capital/largest city quiz

The 2010 census had Memphis ahead, but official Census Bureau estimates as of last year gave Nashville the lead.

Memphis has been stagnant for decades. Nashville has been growing rapidly.

They're pretty close and it seems Nashville is now above Memphis.

The real extreme version is the one with the top 10 for all 50 states, but the accuracy seems to fall apart for much smaller states like Vermont and Rhode Island.

It does get kinda suspect when the smaller states like Vermont or Rhode Island don't even have 10 municipalities classified as "cities." VT has 9 and I believe RI has 8 places officially called "cities."

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Cool quiz, another one where I'd love to see the split between Native and non native takers.

Maybe we can do it in comments?

Non-native, 47 on first take (but I've done a lot of US quizzes before)

For 2 minutes I keep typing Rapid City, Pierre, Sioux City before I beat my head against the wall and audibly groaned.

By city proper population, yes

Funny how in city proper Columbus is way bigger than Cleveland and Cincinnati, but in Metro area Columbus is smaller than the two!

If you combine Cleveland's metro area with Akron's metro area it is still way larger than Columbus's metro area. Cleveland and Akron should be the same metro area since the only thing dividing the two is a county line.

I always forget about New Hampshire till the last second, but I still failed:( but 49/50

I made a pretty interesting quiz that a few temperature guys may wanna check out

On the capital for Virginia, I abbreviated it and it was not accepted. Maybe it should be.

Well I had no idea Kansas City was in Missouri! You learn something new everyday.

There are two! Right next to each other. KC, MO is bigger than KC, KS

It's on the border. There is a Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. By city proper the one in Missouri is roughly twice the size. By metro area its a lot more closely divided.

By cultural measurement, everything's in the Missouri city. The skyscrapers, museums, major league sports, broadcasting. KC, Kansas is just part of the suburban carpet.

How so? It's the only one I missed on the first try...kept rotating Stamford, New Haven, and Hartford around in my head.

Easy for me probably only because my cousin works there.

Native. Got them all with 2:22 remaining. Took 3 tries to guess Bridgeport. Tried Hartford and New Haven first.

Charleston just over took Columbia in South Carolina, so I can't see that one changing soon.

Just a question, isn't Memphis more populous than Nashville?

Not anymore, though Nashville is only ahead by a slight margin.

Well... I got Portland, Maine by accident. And I also got Jackson while typing Jacksonville...

Statistically, according to the list, slightly more people got Portland, Maine than Portland, Oregon with Baltimore in between.

Aw, man. I forgot about Wilmington, Delaware. My old fake ID said I was from there.

Couldn't think of Vermont... all I could think of was that coat factory place...

hey what do you know... now this is the correct answer.

Candy.

Trying to type Jacksonville end up with "ville"! Realized I has just got the one for Mississippi

You are definitely correct.

Same with Boston. There are several different 'cities" that aren't included in the population even though they are really just Boston neighborhoods...Cambridge, Brookline, Somerville. I lived in Brookline when I was younger and didn't even know it was its own city rather than just a neighborhood of Boston. The T runs through it (on three different lines!). Northeastern is five minutes away by car. It's fifteen minutes to downtown with no traffic. I appreciate that there are vital distinctions relating to government, taxes, etc., but in terms of experience, you could walk from Brookline through to Boston to Cambridge and have no idea you had been in three different cities.

Columbus is bigger than Cleveland and Cincinnati? I never would've guessed that. Same with Jacksonville over Orlando, Miami, and Tampa

Jacksonville is only bigger because it's enormous. I think the city and county are coterminous. It just goes on forever. The metro areas for Miami, Orlando, and Tampa are all comfortably bigger, but their official city limits are much smaller than Jacksonville's. I don't think it's the same situation in Ohio. I think Cleveland and Cincinnati were much bigger about fifty years ago (which is why they are more famous and have all the sports teams), but they have been steadily losing population. Columbus's population has exploded in the past few decades.

50/50 Growing up in New England definitely helped.

I only got Bridgeport because my sister went to school there. Otherwise I would have never had a chance. Got the other 49 without much trouble.

Aaaaargh. Switching between city proper and metropolitan agglomeration populations on these quizzes is so frustrating. The agglomeration data is much more useful to everyone but city councils.

Huh I actually didn't know Virginia Beach and I go to Virginia every week

Why isn't Oklahoma accepted for Oklahoma City?